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, CEO

Everett K. Sands

CEO of Lendistry, LLC, Board Member

20+ years of industry experience
Wells Fargo, Advance Bank

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Deanna Bassett

Chief Financial Officer

25+ years of industry experience

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Lynn Fernandez

Chief Credit Officer

25+ years of industry experience
California United Bank
& City National Bank

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Kathy Gonzales

Executive Vice President of Sales

30+ years of industry experience
Wells Fargo, Advance Bank

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Leeann J. Lynch

Chief Operating Officer

20+ years of industry experience
MCB Real Estate

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Janet Perez

First Vice President, Business Development

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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

Jean C. Austin

Member

Jean is the SVP and Corporate Relationship Manager at BBVA Compass. Prior to this, he was at Citibank Los Angeles for over 20 years.

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.

Nadia Diaz

Member

Nadia is the Executive Director for Alliance for a Better Community.

Robert J. Green

Board Advisor

Robert serves as an Advisor to the Board of Lendistry with a primary task of leading technology development.

Donna Greene

Member

Donna is the Regional Diverse Segments Manager for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage serving the DC, DE, MD, VA & WVA areas.

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.

John Madrid

Member

John is a Vice President for a Fortune 200 Company with offices across the United States and in Canada.

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.

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.

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.