Our TEAM
"I separate the word from the rest of the sentence to recognize that we are one and together we are special." -Everett K. Sands, CEOEverett K. Sands
CEO of Lendistry, LLC, Board Member
Everett serves as the CEO & President of Lendistry, and is responsible for making sure the company focuses on Access to Capital for borrowers, and Capital Preservation for investors.
Lynn Fernandez
Chief Credit Officer
Lynn serves as Chief Credit Officer (CCO) of Lendistry, and is responsible for Credit Culture, Underwriting, Servicing and Risk Management.
Kathy Gonzales
Executive Vice President of Sales
Kathy serves as Executive Vice President of Sales, and is responsible for the training and development of the sales team.
Leeann J. Lynch
Director of Corporate Development
Leeann serves as Director of Corporate Development of Lendistry, and is the core of our team, creating strategies to meet our company’s goals, and overseeing recruitment and marketing.
Janet Perez
Vice President, Business Development
Janet serves as Vice President of Business Development at Lendistry, and is responsible for fostering relationships with banks, affiliates and professional referral partners.
Kaleb Kim
VP, Community Banking Relationship Manager
Kaleb serves as Community Banking Relationship Manager at Lendistry, and is responsible for growing and managing business relationships with banking partners and non-bank lenders.
Our TEAM leaders have prior experience at banking and corporate institutions including Bank of America, Chase, CIT, Comerica, Disney, Intuit, Morgan Stanley, Securities & Exchange Commission and Wells Fargo, providing our company with a solid foundation of responsible credit culture.
Collectively fluent in Arabic, English, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Urdu and Vietnamese, our TEAM reflects the diversity of the small business clients we fund.
We also have web pages for business owners for whom English is a second language (Spanish, Korean).
Our Board Members
P. David Bramble
Chairman of the Board
David serves as Chairman of the Board of Lendistry, and is Founder and Managing Partner of MCB Real Estate, LLC, an institutionally capitalized real estate investment firm with more than 6 million square feet in its current portfolio.
Stephanie Couser
Member
Stephanie is the SVP and Director of Community Reinvestment Act, and Community Affairs for Mutual of Omaha Bank.
Donna Greene
Member
Donna is the Regional Diverse Segments Manager for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage serving the DC, DE, MD, VA & WVA areas.
John Madrid
Member
John is a Vice President for a Fortune 200 Company with offices across the United States and in Canada.
Monica Rodriguez
Member
Monica is a Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles, Public Works Department. Monica Rodriguez has more than 18 years of public and private sector experience in the fields of public policy, government relations and nonprofit development.
Sulaiman W. Rahman
Member
Sulaiman is the Founder and CEO of DiverseForce, a high tech and high touch solution for professional workforce and supplier diversity. His career has focused on leveraging technology and events to engage, empower, and connect multicultural networks of professionals and entrepreneurs.
Robert J. Green
Board Advisor
Robert serves as an Advisor to the Board of Lendistry with a primary task of leading technology development.
Nadia Diaz
Member
Nadia is the Executive Director for Alliance for a Better Community.
Tiena Johnson-Hall
Member
Tiena is the SVP, Community Development Finance Manager for Corporate Responsibility for BBVA-Compass. In this role, she oversees the BBVA Community Reinvestment Act investment programs.
Kaci Y. Patterson
Member
Kaci is the founder of Social Good Solutions, a boutique practice that specializes in providing short-term strategic capacity to bridge the gap between existing organizational realities to next level impact.