Daniel DeMeo

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel DeMeo is CEO of CAN Capital, the market share leader in alternative small business finance. He has held this position since early 2013, after joining the company as CFO in 2010.

During his tenure, DeMeo has led CAN Capital to continued growth and profitability as the company strengthens its position at the forefront of the financial technology industry. During the past five years, CAN Capital has grown originations by 29 percent (CAGR) and revenue by 24 percent (CAGR), with commensurate growth in earnings. It has also experienced a 600 percent increase in its digital business since 2014.

In 2015, CAN Capital reached the significant milestone of providing small businesses with access to more than $6 billion of working capital, more than any other company in the space. To date, CAN Capital has facilitated more than 175,000 small business fundings in hundreds of unique industries.

DeMeo came to CAN Capital with extensive management experience in financial services and technology at both large institutions and smaller, more entrepreneurial companies. Prior to joining CAN Capital, he was CFO at 1st Financial Bank, a pure-play monoline credit card issuer. Before that, he served as CFO for JP Morgan Chase’s consumer and small business unit and as CMO and Business Development head for GE Capital’s consumer card unit. His career started at Citibank, where he held various roles in business analytics and marketing.

DeMeo has used his training and experience from traditional banking and financial institutions and applied them to building CAN Capital into a technology-driven company focused on providing small businesses with fast, efficient access to working capital so business owners can concentrate on running their businesses instead of searching for funding.

Parris Sanz, Esq.

Chief Legal Officer

Parris Sanz is CAN Capital’s Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Executive Vice President. Sanz serves on the company’s Executive Committee and oversees all legal and compliance matters, including corporate governance, securities compliance, corporate transactions, intellectual property, litigation, and the company’s Compliance Management System.

Sanz joined the company in 2004 with more than 11 years of experience as a corporate, securities, and transactional attorney. Before joining CAN Capital, he was a senior executive and General Counsel of a specialty pharmaceutical company, the successful sale of which he led in 2003. Prior to that, Sanz was an attorney in private practice at the law firms of Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in San Francisco, where he handled a wide variety of M&A transactions, securities offerings including IPOs, and other corporate transactions, and acted as outside general counsel to a number of technology start-ups.

Sanz received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from U.C. Berkeley, High Honors and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1990. Sanz is admitted to practice in California and Washington, D.C., is a registered In-House Counsel in New York, and is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Mandy Sebel

Chief People Officer

Ms. Sebel joined CAN Capital in 2012, bringing extensive experience in employee engagement, talent acquisition and on-boarding, change management, and organizational development. Her previous work includes integral roles at start-up companies and key positions at mature, but transforming, organizations such as D&B.

While at D&B, Sebel served as HR Partner and Chief of Staff for the Small Business Group and led the integration of Hoover’s and other acquisitions. Sebel is also a veteran of digital commerce and has worked with some of the fastest-growing marketing and technology players in the industry, helping one organization grow to over 3,000 employees.

Sebel spent time, previous to joining CAN Capital, consulting with private equity firm Providence Equity Partners and the advertising firm Arnold Worldwide to improve their approach to attracting and on-boarding key talent.

Kenneth Gang

Chief Risk Officer

Ken Gang joined CAN Capital in 2014 with more than 22 years of credit and risk management experience. He joined us from GlobalLending Services, an automotive lender, where as one of the founding executives he served as Chief Risk Officer overseeing credit, operations, decision sciences and analytics. As CRO, Gang assisted in significant growth strategies and launched several analytics-driven initiatives. Prior to that, he led the risk and consumer credit department at Hyundai Capital America.

Earlier in his career, Gang directed risk management of Wells Fargo’s Auto Finance division, and held risk and analytics positions at HSBC North America, The CIT group, and other banks. At CAN Capital, he leads collections, risk and analytics.

Gang holds a B.S. in Marketing Management and Research and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting, both from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Aman Verjee

Chief Financial Officer

Aman Verjee joined CAN Capital in 2015 with 15 years of experience in a broad range of industries, including digital advertising, ecommerce, consumer electronics, and financial technology. Prior to joining CAN Capital, he was the CFO of Collective, Inc., a leading advertising technology platform that uses big data science to connect brands to their audiences with high-impact experiences, and before that he served as CFO at Sonos, which builds wireless sound systems.

Verjee spent six years at PayPal, in a variety of finance roles overseeing financial planning and analysis, customer analytics and strategy, and helping to build the company from its earliest stages into a leader in payment processing and financial services. He also served as the CFO for eBay Marketplaces, North America, where he managed the company’s strategy, product analytics, marketing analytics, and finance teams. Earlier in his career he held positions at Lehman Brothers and McKinsey & Company.

David Dart

Chief Technology Officer

David Dart joined CAN Capital in 2015 and brings more than 25 years of financial technology experience, covering retail banking, investment banking, wholesale and corporate banking. He is an expert at deploying transformational technological strategies, building teams, and bridging the gap between an organization’s core business functions and IT.

Dart most recently served as Chief Technology Officer at Synovus, one of the largest community banks in the Southeast, where his responsibilities included enterprise-wide IT strategy and planning and the development of the company’s technology vision, as well as implementation and deployment. He previously worked as Senior Vice President and Head of Information Technology and Corporate Services for the Americas at HSH Nordbank, and prior to that was Managing Director and CIO at HVB Group.

Ritesh Gupta

Chief Customer Operations Officer

Ritesh Gupta is CAN Capital’s Chief Customer Operations Officer. Gupta helps drive cross-company focus on customer experience by leading sales and operations for the company’s small business customers.

Gupta joined CAN Capital in 2015 and brings more than 17 years of financial and manufacturing industry experience in operational strategy and execution, customer experience redesign, large-scale program management, and regulatory compliance. Before joining CAN Capital, Gupta served as Vice President of Operations for Capital One. During his 12-year tenure with Capital One in various roles, Gupta led aspects of the company’s business growth, operations and customer centric efforts through a variety of leadership roles in credit card operations, technology, partnerships and procurement. Earlier in his career, Gupta worked at ITC Ltd. India leading manufacturing operations.

Gupta holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur, India and MBA in Finance from I.I.M. Ahmedabad, India.

Christopher Moloney

Chief Marketing Officer

Chris Moloney is CAN Capital’s Chief Marketing Officer, where he leads all marketing, product, pricing, research, business development/sales, and digital initiatives for the firm. Moloney joined CAN Capital in 2016 and is based in the Atlanta operations headquarters. Having led marketing as the CMO for three major brands – Wells Fargo Advisors, Experian, and Scottrade – Moloney is a big believer in the power of marketing to drive dramatic business growth. His expertise is in driving companies to be highly successful in their digital and social media initiatives with measurable results and re-shaping brands to expand into a more direct, customer-driven business model.

Over the past 10 years as a CMO, Moloney has overseen nearly $1 billion in media, advertising and marketing budgets during periods of record growth for each of the companies for which he has worked. In 2011, the integrated marketing campaign he led for Experian was recognized with a “Grand Midas Award” for Best Financial Services Marketing Campaign. During Moloney’s tenure as CMO at Wells Fargo, Advisors, the firm became the #1 ranked investment firm in the U.S. for social media. His team was recognized in 2014 for digital innovation with a 2014 Gramercy Institute Award for “Best Financial Services Marketing Strategy” in the U.S.

Moloney is an avid writer and speaker on digital innovation and served as the keynote speaker at the iMedia Summit in Tokyo in 2013 and Australia in 2015. He is honored to have had his digital marketing work recently profiled in the book “Taking Down Goliath: Digital Marketing Strategies for Beating Your Competitors,” which was released by Palgrave Macmillan Publishing. Author Kevin Ryan called Moloney “The Digital CMO.” Prior to joining CAN, Moloney was CEO of GREMLN, a leading social media and digital marketing company focused on helping financial services firms maximize their digital marketing programs.