Leadership
Renaud Laplanche
Founder & CEO
Scott Sanborn
Chief Operating Officer
Carrie Dolan
Chief Financial Officer
Chaomei Chen
Chief Risk Officer
John MacIlwaine
Chief Technology Officer
Jason Altieri
General Counsel
Compliance Officer
Angela Loeffler
Chief People Officer
Jeff Bogan
Head of Institutional Group
Renaud Laplanche
Founder & CEO
As Founder and CEO Renaud is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and operation of Lending Club. Renaud has appeared in many leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, BusinessWeek and Barrons’. Renaud has been featured on CNBC, ABC News, and Fox Business News.
Before Lending Club, Renaud was the Founder & CEO of TripleHop Technologies, an enterprise software company acquired by Oracle Corporation in June 2005. Prior to that, Renaud was a Senior Associate at New York law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He was named the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year at the BFM Awards, and in 2002 was honored with the HEC Entrepreneur of the Year award. Renaud has also won the French sailing championship twice, in 1988 and 1990.
Renaud has a Masters of Business Administration from HEC and London Business School and a JD from Montpellier University. He is a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia Business School and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.
John MacIlwaine
Chief Technology Officer
As the Chief Technology Officer, John is responsible for leading Lending Club’s technology development and operations.
John brings more than 20 years of experience in executive‑level technology roles in the financial services industry, including C-suite roles at three public companies. He previously served as head of global development at Visa, Inc., where he led program management and information services, including Web application development, data warehousing, business intelligence and mobile development, and oversaw all new technology initiatives for the company. He also served as CTO for the full-service brokerage arm of Morgan Stanley, where he directed the platform for all Morgan Stanley Dean Witter retail brokerage electronic commerce efforts. His experience also includes executive and senior-level management positions at leading financial service technology companies Green Dot Corporation, Envestnet, Inc. and SunGard Data Systems.
John received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.
Jason Altieri
General Counsel
Compliance Officer
As Lending Club’s General Counsel, Jason handles all regulatory and legal matters with an emphasis on securities and banking.
Prior to Lending Club, Jason was the General Counsel and VP, Partnerships for Corefino, Inc., an outsourced accounting solution and technology provider. Jason has also been a corporate partner for the international law firms of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C. and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP and he was an associate for over 9 years with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, PC.
Jason holds a BA in Economics from U.C. Davis, an MA in International Relations and Public Policy (China emphasis) from U.C. San Diego and a JD from The University of San Francisco School of Law.
Scott Sanborn
Chief Operating Officer
As the Chief Operating Officer, Scott is responsible for connecting to Lending Club’s customers through advertising, PR, and the website.
Before joining Lending Club Scott was the Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer for eHealthInsurance, a publicly traded ecommerce company where he lead double digit growth in revenue and new customer acquisition. Prior experience includes various senior marketing roles including Chief Marketing Officer and interim president of RedEnvelope, Inc., an e-commerce and catalog retailer of upscale gifts, and Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Home Shopping Network, a television and internet retailer of consumer products.
Carrie Dolan
Chief Financial Officer
As the Chief Financial Officer, Carrie is responsible for Lending Club’s financial management.
Prior to Lending Club, Carrie was the Treasurer for The Charles Schwab Corporation, a leading provider of securities, brokerage, banking, and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Carrie also served as the Chief Financial Officer for Schwab Bank, a bank she helped launch in 2003.
Prior to Schwab, Carrie held a variety of financial positions at Chevron in financial planning and analysis, management reporting, accounting, credit and treasury. During her tenure, Carrie helped launch the Chevron Credit Bank, which offered proprietary credit cards, and served on its board of directors and as its Chief Financial Officer.
Carrie received both her finance bachelor’s degree and her MBA degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Chaomei Chen
Chief Risk Officer
As CRO, Chaomei is responsible for the risk management function and infrastructure enabling Lending Club’s portfolio of prime consumer credit.
Chaomei brings over 20 years’ experience in the banking and financial services industry holding roles including Chief Risk Officer at JP Morgan Chase Card Services for the WaMu portfolio and as Chief Credit Officer at Providian Financial Services. Her experience includes executive positions with Fleet Credit Card Services and PNC National Bank, and management positions with Citicorp, American Express and Household Credit Services. Chaomei has overseen the business and credit risk within portfolios totaling more than $20 billion.
Chaomei holds a BS degree in mathematics from Jiaotong University in China and has earned an MSE degree in mathematical science from The Johns Hopkins University.
Angela Loeffler
Chief People Officer
As the Chief People Officer, Angela is responsible for Lending Club’s human resources, as well as all things related to the people environment.
Angela has spent more than 13 years developing human resource and talent strategies for both publicly and privately held companies. Prior to joining Lending Club, Angela served as the Chief Administrative Officer for Ask.com, where she was responsible for global talent development, human resources and facilities. She played an integral role in transforming the company’s culture, leading Ask.com to win a Best Places to Work award in 2011. Before her tenure at Ask.com, Angela worked at Openwave and served as a consulting analyst for William M. Mercer Human Resources Consulting. Angela received her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jeff Bogan
Head of Institutional Group
As Head of the Institutional Group, Jeff is responsible for corporate development, strategic partnerships, institutional investment products, and capital markets.
Before joining Lending Club, Jeff was at Morgan Stanley where he served as an advisor to financial services and technology companies. He has extensive transactional experience in managing and structuring capital raises, mergers & acquisitions, and other strategic transactions. Prior experience includes similar roles at Greenhill & Co. and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Jeff received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BBA from the University of Georgia.
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