LendingPoint, an online loan origination and servicing platform, appointed Mark Freeman as chief financial officer. 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,” Shawn Stone, CEO of LendingPoint, said. “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.”
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,” Freeman said. “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.”
Freeman has a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Tulane.
