$10.5 billion
Small business loans and grants
640,000
Small businesses supported
Lendistry provides opportunity for small business owners and their communities through fair financing and financial education.
Lendistry combines the speed and convenience of technology, the knowledge and guidance of responsible lending, and the investment capital of social impactors and national banks. As a minority-led Community Development Financial Institution, we are dedicated to providing economic opportunities and progressive growth for underserved urban and rural small business borrowers and their communities.
Lendistry works with its non-profit organization, The Center by Lendistry, to connect its small business customers with technical assistance, business courses, business advisors, and access to other programs and services.
Our Executive Team
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Operations Officer of Lendistry Insurance Partners
Chief Lending Officer
EVP, General Counsel
Kyle Funn brings over 12 years of business experience to Lendistry, both as a corporate attorney and in-house operator. Most recently, Mr. Funn was a senior corporate associate in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., where he advised private companies and venture capital and private equity funds in a variety of corporate and securities law matters. Prior to that, he was a corporate associate at Cypress LLP, where he provided broad-based corporate representation to start-up and private growth companies and private equity firms in a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, financial services, entertainment and media, and manufacturing. Mr. Funn received his undergraduate degree at Howard University and law degree at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Enterprise Chief Technology Officer
Rob Green serves as Lendistry’s Enterprise Chief Technology Officer, bringing nearly 30 years of experience in enterprise technology, financial services infrastructure, and product engineering. At Lendistry, he influences technology strategy, overseeing product architecture, infrastructure design, and the scalability of its digital platform. He has held executive roles across multiple technology companies, including Dizzion, SalesForce, Citrix, Rackspace and Verizon. Prior to joining Lendistry, he served as a strategic advisor at Accenture, guiding innovation and modernization initiatives for leading global banks and financial institutions. Earlier in his career, Mr. Green contributed to published research at the National Institutes of Health, developed applications for NASA, and engineered systems at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in support of SCIF environments with defense-grade reliability. He holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland.
Chief Data & Information Officer
Clark Huang has over 15 years of experience in the risk and analytics sector of the financial industry. His specialties include marketing and risk analytics, strategy development and optimization, strategic planning and execution, risk management, portfolio and life cycle management, talent management and team building. Prior to joining Lendistry, Mr. Huang served as Chief Credit Analytics Officer at Community Loans of America, VP of Global Risk & CRO of North America at DFC Global Corp., and SVP/Senior Director of Risk Exposure Management & Analytics at Citi. He holds a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.
Chief Marketing Officer
Joe Kerwin has more than 25 years of marketing experience in financial services organizations, including a focus on the commercial real estate and commercial lending space as a Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo. He has overseen and grown brands at large institutions and small technology and fintech startups. As Lendistry’s Chief Marketing Officer he oversees marketing, public relations and communications for the company. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tulsa and a Master of Arts from DePaul University.
Chief Operating Officer
SVP Human Resources
Yajaira Rose-Smith has over 20 years of experience in human resources, people operations, and organizational leadership across aerospace, technology, and financial services. Before joining Lendistry, she spent 12 years at Virgin Galactic, where she helped build the People & Culture function from early-stage startup through commercialization, and the company’s SPAC transition, leading initiatives in organizational design, performance management, and talent development. She later served as Vice President of HR/Talent Acquisition & DEI within another aerospace start up, overseeing enterprise people strategies and culture programs during a period of rapid growth. Yajaira holds a BA from Cal State Fullerton and MA degree from University of California Los Angeles.
President of Lendistry Insurance Partners
Head of Lendistry Capital Partners and Public & Private Partnerships
Laura is a seasoned impact investor with over 15 years of experience. Most recently, she served as a Vice President in the Urban Investment Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management and the head of the access to capital component of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses. A recognized investor and thought leader, Laura has been tapped to advise many senior government officials at the federal, state, and local levels on creating strategies, policies and designing ecosystems that leverage public and private sector resources to create opportunities and equitable access to capital to entrepreneurs. She has led the design and execution of several public-private partnerships and investment funds to support minority entrepreneurs, most notably in New York City and Chicago, the latter of which has served as a model throughout the country.
Chief Compliance Officer
Head of Public Economic Development
Chief Financial Officer
Clark Wen leads Lendistry’s financial and capital raising strategy as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Lendistry, he served as Managing Director at Crestline Investors where he made private credit and preferred equity investments through Crestline’s opportunistic credit platform. In this role, he spearheaded Crestline’s specialty finance strategy, investing over $800 million to support financing businesses in rapid growth cycles, dislocated markets, or underserved consumer segments. Other experience includes serving as Associate Director for the Private Equity Group at Black Diamond Capital Management, and as an analyst at EY Corporate Finance. Clark received a B.S. in Business Management from the Stern School of Business of New York University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

