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American Credit Team Member Ken McGovern

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Getting you the secured business loan you need is what we’re all about.

American Credit’s team is as diverse as the small business community it serves. We bring together a wide range of skills and personalities—all dedicated to delivering equipment loans and invoice/AR financing for your business, reflecting expertise in everything from finance, security and IT to support and customer service, our team members have one focus: You.




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Ken McGovern | American Credit

Ken McGovern
Chief Financial Officer

Ken McGovern is Chief Financial Officer at American Credit. Ken has extensive experience in planning, financing, and executing growth, turn-around and exit strategies for tech-focused companies in all stages of their development. He is a passionate advocate of the FinTech space. Ken brings several years’ experience communicating and negotiating with investors, boards and other stakeholders to American Credit.
  • • Skilled at building, leading and motivating high-performance international teams

  • • Expert in due diligence and valuation

  • • Analytic foundation
Previously:
  • • Founded QuantiPhy, advising clients in Finance, Investments, Risk and Data Analytics & Methods, and Corporate Development with an analytic and collaborative style.

  • • Chief Investment Officer at Flagstone Re
    • transformed Warren Buffet’s hedge fund team into Flagstone
    • raised over $1.1 Billion in equity capital in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

  • • Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer at Highland Capital

  • • Director of Capital Markets for Walmart, where he spent over a decade, working in IT (Data Science & Analytics), Merchandising, Investor Relations and Corporate Finance

  • • Taught advanced programming to Trading and back-office teams at Morgan Stanley

  • • Designed and developed NASA's Patent and Licensing System at NASA HQ

  • • Consulted to the U.S. Air Force Satellite Testing Facility in Sunnyvale

  • • Adjunct Professor at SMU's Cox Graduate School of Business

Education:

Masters, Mathematical Finance, Columbia University

MSIA, Purdue University

BS, University of Maryland


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