Fintech lender Breakout Capital Finance expanded its board of directors with the appointments of company CTO Firoze Lafeer and independent director Neil Gurvitch.
Carl Fairbank, Breakout founder and CEO, said, “We continue to see rapid growth in our lending- and technology-focused endeavors. Adding more seasoned leadership continues our expansion and growth plans.”
Gurvitch is a co-founder and senior partner at the law firm of Selzer Gurvitch, Attorneys at Law, located in Bethesda, MD. He practices primarily in corporate, tax and succession/estate planning with an emphasis on family wealth preservation and the representation of a broad spectrum of businesses in their corporate and tax planning matters.
From 2003-2010, Gurvitch served on the board of directors of Congressional Bank, and since 2015, has served on the board of directors of Klas Telecom and its affiliates, a government contractor with a primary emphasis on technology sales to the military. He also served as general counsel of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington.
“I’m excited to be joining the Board of Breakout Capital Finance,” said Gurvitch. “Carl has a compelling vision for growing this company at the intersection of lending and technology, and has demonstrated a commitment to building a seasoned, first-rate management team.”
Lafeer currently serves as the firm’s chief technology officer. Since joining Breakout in 2017, he has focused on building the technology platforms and applications of advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain. Prior to joining Breakout, Lafeer was the CTO of Capital One Labs and the head of the Capital One Tech Fellows Program. Earlier in his career, he led technology for a number of leading-edge programs in the federal government and for a few successful startups going back to Outpost.com in the early days of e-commerce._x000D_
“Our company is at a critical growth stage,” said Lafeer. “We are proving the value of how advanced technology can dramatically impact the results for lenders, and have continued our commitment to innovation in lending and beyond.”
