The New Landscape of Business Lending

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With so many new online financing options available today, how do you navigate through all the noise?  Led by alternative financing expert, reformed wall street lawyer, and StreetShares CEO Mark Rockefeller, this session will explore the space between traditional bank loans and online loan sharks.

Topics covered will include:

  • The different types of non-bank financing and the pros and cons of each
  • New lending technologies to include “crowd”-based online financing, peer-to-peer lending, receivables financing, and affinity-based lending
  • Appropriate types of financing through different stages, from start-up to mature business

About Your Presenter 

MarkMark L. Rockefeller is an entrepreneur, attorney, and alternative funding expert. His goal is to fund the next great generation of American entrepreneurs. He is currently the Co-Founder & CEO of StreetShares.com, an interactive marketplace where retail and institutional investors compete to provide shares of commercial loans to small businesses. StreetShares has been described as “Shark Tank meets eBay” for small business loans.

Mark began his career as a military officer and federal prosecutor. Following military service in Iraq, Mark worked briefly on a pro bono micro-finance project in Africa before joining the prominent global financial services law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He left the law firm to co-found StreetShares in 2013.

Mark has been quoted or featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, the Washington Business Journal, INC. magazine, and Entrepreneur. He is a frequent speaker on alternative finance and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance, MBA and law degrees. He was a Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School and is a term member in the Council on Foreign Relations.

Date: June 16, 2015

Schedule:
7:30AM – 8:00AM Registration, Breakfast & Networking
8:00AM – 9:00AM Presentation and Q&A

Location:
Mon Ami Gabi, Reston Town Center
11950 Democracy Drive
Reston, VA 20190

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