Fintech startup LenderClose recently announced that it is adding three new employees to meet growing client demand from community lenders nationwide. The Des Moines-based company has added more than 15 employees in the first half of 2019, according to a press release.
The company added sales representatives Troy Allen and Kathy Bell, and software developer Caleb Salt.
“We’re building out our team to support steady growth, which continues to affirm our belief that we’re offering credit unions and community banks the best digital lending platform,” LenderClose Chief Operating Officer Ben Rempe said in the release. “We’re always evaluating the size and skills of our staff to maintain the best possible customer service experience, and to find new ways to enhance platform features and functionality.”
Allen is the former regional manager of Community 1st Credit Union in Indianola, where he managed four branches and 25 employees. During his more than 17 years in banking, Allen achieved consistent loan and deposit growth and was recognized as a top sales professional, the release said. He’ll use this deep experience working in community lending institutions in his role as sales executive for LenderClose.
Bell brings extensive sales and business development experience to LenderClose, having most recently worked as a client executive with ACS and a senior sales executive with Dice Holdings, both in Urbandale. She has expertise developing sales strategies in highly competitive markets, and as a LenderClose sales executive, will help to further its footprint in key markets.
Salt is a developer with experience designing, coding and deploying software systems for more than 400 companies. In his most recent role as a software programmer analyst for IMT Computer Services in Des Moines, he worked in a fully test-driven development (TDD) agile programming environment. For LenderClose he will be focused on developing further solutions, including API integrations into loan origination software and the solutions of national data providers.