ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LendingPoint, the award-winning online loan origination and servicing platform, announced the appointment of Mark Freeman as Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Mr. Freeman will oversee all corporate finance, including accounting, financial planning and budgeting, treasury as well as the Company’s capital markets programs.
“Mark has extensive experience building high-performance teams in both finance and capital markets,” said Shawn Stone, LendingPoint’s Chief Executive Officer. “He is deeply respected throughout the consumer lending industry and the structured finance ecosystem. We are very privileged and delighted to have Mark on the LendingPoint team.”
Mr. Freeman joins LendingPoint from Republic Finance, a privately held consumer lender with approximately 300 branches throughout the U.S., where he served as CFO for the past six years. He has more than 30 years of financial industry experience. Prior to Republic, he held senior leadership positions at Ocwen Financial Corporation, Banc of America Securities, BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets, and J.P. Morgan Chase Bank.
“I am excited to join Shawn and the LendingPoint team at such a pivotal time for the Company and look forward to seizing the huge market opportunities ahead of us,” said Mark Freeman. “The energy, focus and commitment of not only the management team, but also LendingPoint’s engaged and supportive investors all point to a great future for this Company.”
Mr. Freeman has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Tulane.
About LendingPoint
LendingPoint is an award-winning online loan origination and servicing platform that provides financing solutions for consumers and lending institutions. The company’s fraud prevention, risk, and asset management algorithms are used to create financial opportunity across the credit spectrum. In 2023, LendingPoint was recognized as the Best Consumer Lending platform by Finovate and was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for four consecutive years. LendingPoint has been honored on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 annual list for five consecutive years and recognized as one of the top 40 fastest-growing companies in Atlanta by the ACG. LendingPoint has also been named one of the Best Places to Work by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. LendingPoint is a privately held company headquartered in metro Atlanta with an office in Dallas. LendingPoint, LLC owns and operates the LendingPoint platform. www.lendingpoint.com