Finitive, a data-driven private credit marketplace connecting borrowers with institutional investors, hired Jon Burlinson as chief information officer and Joshua Masia as chief product officer.
“This has been a year of tremendous expansion for Finitive, and we are thrilled to be adding Jon and Joshua, two of the financial technology industry’s leading talents, to our leadership team,” Jon Barlow, CEO and founder of Finitive, said. “Their deep expertise in machine-learning algorithms, software productization and [software-as-a-service] platforms will play a key role in helping us leverage our technology capabilities to bring greater transparency, speed and simplicity to private credit transactions.”
Burlinson is a Silicon Valley veteran who has been starting and building businesses for the last 25 years with a focus on data, marketplaces, financing and security. Previously, Burlinson was the chief technology officer of CRE Simple, where he designed and implemented a deal-management SaaS platform for commercial real estate, which in its first eight months of operation processed more than $8 billion in transactions. Prior to CRE Simple, Burlinson spent six years with Stem, designing and building out an artificial intelligence-driven energy trading platform, helping to shepherd the company from a startup to a $3 billion publicly traded company. He is the author and inventor on several patents, many of which are critical for stabilizing the energy grid during peak usage.
Prior to joining Finitive, Masia played a role in pioneering iCapital Network’s end-to-end electronic trading platform for alternative investments. As vice president and head of data and analytics he directed the firm’s strategy for the management of operational and analytical data, helping to drive the firm’s growth to $70 billion in assets in three years. Prior to iCapital, Masia was lead product manager at JPMorgan Chase, where he focused on the implementation of machine learning to automate the detection of risk. Earlier in his career, he was senior product manager in the Aladdin Product Group at BlackRock, where he built core data systems that supported more than $10 trillion in assets. He also played a role in building the firm’s first robotic advisor application.
