Scaling Lending Business: Climb Credit Adds Angela Ceresnie as COO

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Climb Credit, one of the leading online student lending platforms in the U.S., announced today that Angela Ceresnie has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. Ceresnie will be leading efforts to scale the business to an ever-growing pool of partnerships with alternative education providers across the country. A seasoned and highly-respected executive, Ceresnie brings several years of experience as co-founder, CFO, and COO of Orchard Platform, the leading technology provider for originators and investors in the marketplace lending space. Prior to founding Orchard, Ceresnie led risk management teams at Citibank and American Express.

"I'm incredibly excited about what Climb is building and its mission to finance education programs that make a substantial difference in students' lives," said Ceresnie. "The team has made impressive traction to date with all of our school partners, having made millions of dollars worth of loans to students all over the country.  I'm honored to join such a strong team, and look forward to working with everyone to continue toward this mission."

Zander Rafael, CEO and co-founder of Climb Credit, said, "We're very excited to bring Angela on board. She brings a depth of experience and drive that will help take Climb from a multi-million dollar business helping thousands of students nationally, to a multi-billion dollar institution redefining how students find, and pay for higher education."

Ceresnie joins the leadership team alongside Rafael, Amit Sinha (CFO) and Chris Schaffer (CTO).

About Climb Credit

Climb Credit is building the first large scale matching engine for all consumers to decision, action and finance how they can improve the value of their human capital. It finances education where such education delivers a meaningful economic return to the consumer --- aligning post graduate economic incentives between students, schools and investors --- for the first time ever.

Climb Credit incorporates both school and student data in its proprietary underwriting process, allowing it to work with students that may be overlooked by other lenders and to allow effective schools to significantly increase their enrollment. Climb Credit helps its school partners grow while offering their students affordable, fixed-rate loans with no pre-payment penalties. For more information, or to start working with Climb Credit visit climbcredit.com.

Climb Credit has raised over $400 MM in committed capital from a $300 BB global top 3 asset manager and venture funding from a group of diverse investors including the founder of okcupid/match.com to Learn Capital, a leading education venture fund, to Seer Capital, a major fixed income hedge fund.

CONTACT:
Zander Rafael
Climb Credit
+1 (617) 459-5807
[email protected]

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