Bennett Krieger
Helping FinTech Disrupt Traditional Lending
- Role
- Director of Fintech Lending at Equifax
- Location
- Roswell, GA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bennett Krieger
Bennett Krieger: The Architect of Financial Democratic FreedomBennett Krieger doesn’t just build financial systems; he builds stability—a mission rooted in a childhood defined by the lack of it. Raised by a single mother in Atlanta’s financial hub, Krieger moved 18 times before graduating college, a journey that instilled in him an \"unprecedented drive\" to master the mechanics of wealth and security.Before stepping into his role as Head of GTM Strategy at LendAPI, Krieger spent years inside the engine room of the credit industry at Equifax. Joining on the heels of the 2017 consumer breach, he acted as a \"one-man task force\" during the company’s high-stakes cloud migration, simultaneously serving as a Scrum Master, Solutions Engineer, and Project Manager. His \"owner’s mindset\" was quantifiable: as Director of FinTech Lending, he scaled a $4M book of business to over $10M in just three years, beating quotas by double digits annually.Despite his corporate success, Krieger saw a systemic flaw: the \"red tape\" of legacy giants often barred innovative startups and \"good people\" from the capital they needed. This led him to LendAPI. Partnering with CEO Tim Li, Krieger is now \"cutting the scissors\" on industry bureaucracy. By leveraging a no-code,\"Bank in a Box\" solution, he is empowering fintechs to launch credit products in weeks—not years—effectively democratizing access to the financial tools that once seemed exclusive to the readers of the Robb Report he admired as a child.With a bold roadmap to double LendAPI’s revenue to $16M ARR in his first year and build a high-performance GTM team, Krieger isn\'t just selling software. He is unlocking market potential for the next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring that for them, financial stability is a given, not a gamble.
Experience
Director of Fintech Lending
Sep 2023 — Present
Education
Georgia Southern University
Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting and Finance
2011 — 2015
Roswell High School
High School, College Prep
2007 — 2011
Skills
- Budgeting
- Microsoft Office
- Leadership
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Data Analysis
- Software System Analysis
- Project Management
- Accounts Payable & Receivable
- Business Process Improvement
- Budgets
- Finance
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Visual Basic
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Publisher
- Erp Implementations
- Economics
- Accounting Information Systems
- Payroll
- Accounting
- Powerpoint
- Microsoft Excel
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