Management Team

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Rohit Arora
Rohit Arora
Co-Founder and CEO
Rohit Arora is the CEO and co-founder of Biz2Credit and is responsible for driving Biz2Credit to its leadership position. Rohit is often quoted on small business lending by major news media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Entrepreneurs, American Banker, CNNMoney, MSNBC, Inc., and the Washington Post.
Rohit was named Crain's NY Business "Entrepreneur of the Year 2011". He holds a Masters in International Business from Columbia University and an Engineering degree from India.
Ramit-Arora
Ramit Arora
President and Co-Founder
Ramit Arora is the President and co-founder of Biz2Credit and heads the company's credit and sales operations. He has 10+ years of experience in financial services with Citibank and Xerox, and has a considerable experience in risk management.
He holds a bachelor's degree in business management and master's in accounting.
Vineet-Tyagi
Vineet Tyagi
Chief Technology Officer
Vineet Tyagi is the Global Chief Technology Officer at Biz2Credit. He has over 25+ years of rich & diverse experience specializing in Digital Transformation, Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics. He has deep understanding in building large scale data driven products & has led several transformation initiatives at large BFSI's globally.
Prior to joining Biz2Credit, Vineet was the CTO and Head of Innovation Lab for Impetus technologies. Vineet is a recognized industry leader in the area of AI, Big Data & disruptive innovation and a frequent speaker at international technology conferences. He is a part of NASSCOM SME Council, Northern Regional Council where he chairs the SIG on Technology and he also serves on the Steering Committee of 10000 Startup program.
Vineet holds a Masters in Consultancy Management from BITS Pilani and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from NSIT, Delhi.
Jonathan-Gitlin
Jonathan Gitlin
General Counsel
Jonathan Gitlin has been Biz2Credit's Principal Corporate Counsel since June 2008 and its General Counsel since 2011. Jonathan has extensive corporate, transactional and IP experience, including 8 years with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and 3 years as Winstar New Media's Chief Legal Officer.
Jonathan holds a J.D. and LL.M. in Corporate Law from the New York University School of Law and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. summa cum laude from Colorado College.
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Debbie Kemp
Chief People Officer
Debbie is the Global Chief People Officer at Biz2Credit. She has over 30 years of global experience crossing investment banking/securities, telecommunication, media, ecommerce, and executive recruiting industries. She has served in an executive level at companies such as Branded, MediaCom, Bankrate, and Velocity.  Debbie specializes in creating and delivering people strategies in fast-paced environments, enabling business growth and driving operational excellence
She believes in making a difference in the world through initiatives that help people, whether meeting the basic essentials, or helping them achieve their potential through coaching,
Debbie’s career is complemented by a Bachelor of Science in Communications degree from the University of Kansas. She is an active member of Until There are Nine an advisor to St. Francis, Pinnacle, and CICA.
Daniel-Lageman
Daniel Lageman
Chief Compliance Officer
Daniel is a veteran Compliance Professional specializing in all aspects of regulatory compliance within the financial services industry. Prior to joining Biz2Credit as Chief Compliance Officer, Daniel served as Chief Compliance Officer of Marketplace Lending at Cross River Bank where he was responsible for ensuring that the Bank’s numerous online lending partners remained compliant with all applicable laws and regulations.
Prior to Cross River Bank, Daniel was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley’s Private Bank in its Mortgage Compliance department. Prior to his work in Compliance, Daniel was a practicing attorney with prestigious law firms including Latham & Watkins, Locke Lord, and Reed Smith. His area of expertise was financial services litigation. Daniel obtained his Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law and a BBA from James Madison University.
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Shaurya Kabra
Head of Credit Risk
Shaurya Kabra is a seasoned risk management professional with over 14 years of experience across credit and fraud risk, data analytics, product innovation, and business strategy in both consumer and commercial lending. He has a proven record of building and leading high-performing teams, delivering impact through effective risk mitigation, scalable solutions, and sustainable growth.
Most recently, Shaurya led credit risk at Current, a leading U.S. neobank, where he built, scaled, and managed all credit and liquidity products from the ground up. Prior to that, he served as a consulting leader to American Express through EXL, partnering with Chief Credit Officers and other senior executives to design new risk strategies, capabilities and oversee end-to-end risk management across five non-card commercial lending portfolios. Earlier in his career, he worked in PwC’s Advisory practice, supporting top U.S. banks, and contributed significantly to the development of PwC’s trademarked products Financial Services Demand Estimator and Experience Radar.
Shaurya holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi, along with a minor in Business Management. Outside of work, he is an avid traveler who enjoys following cricket, kayaking, and playing chess occasionally.
Frank McKeon
Frank McKeon
Chief Marketing Officer
Frank McKeon has joined Biz2Credit as Chief Marketing Officer, bringing more than two decades of B2B and small business marketing leadership to the role. He most recently served as CMO for Now Corp, Ygrene Energy Group and TuCielo, three financing brands within the Virgo Investment Group portfolio, where he built differentiated brand positioning and lead generation programs across invoice financing and home improvement lending. Earlier, as Head of Small Business Marketing at Enova International and OnDeck, McKeon rebuilt the company's SMB brand strategy and value proposition, growing direct originations from 7% to 27% of new volume and setting a company record with more than $1 billion in annual direct funding. He also spent over a decade at Time Warner Cable in a number of leadership roles, where he established the company's first enterprise Direct Marketing platform and drove 240% growth in sales leads over three years.
Ted Kelleher
Ted Kelleher
Head of Capital Markets
Ted Kelleher is a senior financial services executive with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams, managing multi-million-dollar revenue streams, and securing billions in funding across private credit, fintech, and global capital markets. Specializing in structured finance, capital planning, and investor relations, he has consistently built sustainable funding strategies through public and private securitizations, warehouse facilities, and forward-flow agreements. Over his career across world-class financial institutions and emerging fintech platforms, Ted has structured and closed over $2.5 billion in total funding.
Most recently, Ted has driven transformative capital markets strategies for leading non-bank fintech platforms in the consumer, small business, and franchise lending sectors. As Head of Capital Markets & Corporate Partnerships at ByzFunder, he launched and operationalized the company's inaugural $170 million rated securitization. His recent fintech leadership roles also include executing forward-flow programs and warehouse facilities at ApplePie Capital, driving growth equity and forward-flow transactions at Applied Data Finance, and overseeing Funding Circle’s inaugural US ABS deal and follow-on securitizations.
Prior to his focus on fintech, Ted served as Head of Fixed Income and Currencies Distribution at Société Générale, where he held direct P&L and line responsibility for a team of over 60 sales professionals across the Americas. In this role, he restructured the client coverage model to deliver solution-based derivative and structured credit capabilities to Tier-1 banks, asset managers, and corporate clients.
Ted holds an MBA from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and a BA in Business Administration and Finance from Lycoming College.
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