Online small business lender OnDeck hired three senior financial services executives as members of its management teams in Risk, Partnerships and Marketing: Chirs McCall as head of Acquisition Risk Management, Gregory Johnson as the senior vice president of Business Development and Matt Cluney as vice president of Brand and Product Marketing.
McCall will be responsible for the maintenance and development of acquisition credit strategies and direct targeting/risk reward optimization, as well as the creation of new business value and serving in a control function. Prior to joining OnDeck, McCall was head of Group Decision Sciences for Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s New York office. He also spent over 15 years working at Capital One in progressively senior positions focused on decision sciences, predictive modelling and the application of analytics strategies to business problems.
Johnson will lead a team that engages revenue growth partners ranging from highly integrated strategic marketplace lending platforms to firms with extensive small business relationships. Most recently, he was senior vice president of Business Growth for the Americas at Xero, an accounting software company. Johnson previously served in senior leadership roles at United Parcel Service, American Express and Capital One.
Prior to OnDeck, Cluney was senior vice president and head of Customer Engagement at Citi, where he led product management and marketing strategy for the Citi/American Airlines co-branded card portfolio. While there, he also played a key role in relaunching the Citi/AAdvantage Platinum Select MasterCard product. Prior to Citi, Cluney led the marketing function at The Associated Press and Law360, the legal news division of LexisNexis. He previously spent 12 years at American Express in a variety of marketing roles across both the Consumer and Business-to-Business divisions.
“We are delighted to welcome Chris, Gregory and Matt to OnDeck,” said Andrea Gellert, OnDeck chief revenue officer. “Each of these talented executives bring strategic leadership experience at Fortune 500 financial services companies and a strong track record of success in their respective fields. We look forward to their contributions as OnDeck builds on its leadership in online small business lending.”
