Jeff White
Phone: 704-796-0283
Email: jeff.white@fintechexec.io
Driven and adaptable C-Level executive with deep experience in fintech, payments, issuance, corporate development, private equity, growth, and technology management.
Passionate about business innovation, all things fintech, and leadership. Email & connect with me directly to discuss partnerships, new opportunities, or just to network!
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SVP, Financial Platform
Charlotte, NC | Santa Monica, CA
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Led team in rebuilding dynamic pricing model, achieving a 96.3% performance increase. The model’s run time was reduced from over 9 hours to less than 20 minutes, significantly improving efficiency while increasing accurancy rates.
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Led the development of Swell Energy’s financial product origination and servicing platform, achieving a 25% increase in operational efficiency and a 30% reduction in processing time.
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Integrated advanced financial technology into operations, aligning product development with market demands and customer needs, resulting in a 20% increase in customer satisfaction.
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Expedited the release of the Swell ESA (PPA) platform into CA, HI, and NC, contributing to a 15% market share growth in these regions within six months.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked with Capital Markets, Engineering, Fund Management, Servicing, Commercial, and Corporate teams to optimize financial technology strategies, leading to significant cost reductions and increases in speed to market.
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Managed a team focused on developing an innovative financial platform, improving performance metrics by 90% (e.g. on time delivery for sprint release schedule) and strengthening the company’s role as a pioneer of ESAs in emerging markets.
2023 - Present
Co-Founder | CEO
Charlotte, NC | Boston, MA
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Secured the second pre-seed investment ever by Capital One Ventures, establishing significant financial backing for Devnaut’s growth.
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Innovative Development: Built the first-ever code cartographer, which automatically reduced the time private equity and VC firms needed to understand a codebase by 97 days, revolutionizing the efficiency of codebase analysis.
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MVP Launch and Pilot: Launched the MVP and piloted with seven companies across multiple verticals, including SaaS, contracted development, venture capital, and private equity.
2022 - 2023
Chief Executive Officer
Charlotte, NC | Perth, Australia
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Built and released an entirely new mobile and web-based spend & expense management debit card program within eight months of inception
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Resourced every department by hiring and managing a team of 50+ international resources in four different continents.
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Grew waitlist to over 650+ prospects and 250+ channel partners prior to release of product.
2021 - 2022
GM of Payments
ProfitSolv (owned by GSV & Lightyear Capital)
Knoxville, TN
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Created and deployed a complete payments strategy for the holding company of the Legal Brands vertical for both Greater Sum Ventures and Lightyear Capital.
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Developed a consolidated integration payments strategy to standardize payments integrations on a go-forward basis and provide a consistent boarding, processing, and reporting platform for the portfolio companies. Audited and recouped valuable inaccurate billings from major payment platforms which secured leverage for contractual renegotiations of existing payment contracts.
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Evaluated current payments platform setup and renegotiated terms among eight portfolio companies. Secured new vendor relationships that ensured favorable contractual terms for portability and profitability with the anticipation of the future investment recap strategy.
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Triaged all the transaction systems into one common API with a front-end reporting platform utilizing .NET Core framework. Platform facilitated over $10M in monthly volume of transactions within the first 30 days of release.
2020 - 2021
Chief Revenue Officer
Rocket Matter (Acquired by GSV)
Boca Raton, FL
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Multi-disciplinary leader for Rocket Matter, a legal cloud-based case management & billing software company conceptualized through machine-learning.
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Chief Revenue Officer responsible for influence multiple departments, including the complete payments strategy, finance, new business sales, digital marketing, and partner strategy.
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Managed two global sales teams between Rocket Matter and LexCharge.
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Helped lead negotiations in Rocket Matter being acquired by Greater Sum Ventures
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Secured NASPO and FedRAMP Ready status with key partnerships such as SHI, CDW & Insight.
2018-2020
Chief Executive Officer
Charlotte, NC
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Agility Payments is a company partnered with CardConnect that offers integration for secure payment processing for companies like General Electric, Adobe Creative Suite, and NexTech.​
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Consulted cross-functional, peak-performing teams to champion business development initiatives and delegate tasks that control costs and inspire customized solutions to promotional challenges.
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Co-Founder that assisted in inception and development of initial business planning including brand positioning, marketing strategy, sales campaigns, content strategy, sales techniques, and digital marketing plans.
2017-Present
EDUCATION
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Masters in Business Administration
Masters Science in Accounting
Urbana-Champaign, IL
2022 - 2025
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Executive management
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Financial Management
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Market Intelligence
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Customer Acquisition
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Product Line Expansion
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Payroll | AR | AP | Invoicing
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GAAP Federal Compliance
Sales & Client Management
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Compensation Structuring
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Strategic Partnerships
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Networking & Negotiations
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Risk Management & Mitigation
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Global Sales Management
Payments Expertise
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Payment Strategy & Planning
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SaaS Development & Marketing
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Staff Training & Development
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Onboarding/Training Programs
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Team Leadership & Mentorship