Colin brings 10 years of Financial Services expertise to our team. His experience includes Underwriting at AIB and Portfolio Management at BOI. With his years of analytical credit review experience, his role is to lead our Credit Department through the “end to end” process and ensure that our customer journey is seamless. Colin is a Qualified Financial Advisor and also holds a Professional Diploma in Financial Services.

As Chairman of the Credit Committee, Nils Koik’s mission is to ensure that Flender has world-class controls to select creditworthy borrowers and protect investors’ returns. Nils has 25 years experience in banking and risk management including 18 years with SEB Bank where Nils was director and chairman of the credit committee of bank branches and in charge of stress testing, risk reporting and credit decisions for SME lending, asset backed lending and consumer lending.

Jamie played professional rugby for 15 years, captaining both Leinster and Ireland. During this time he invested in various successful businesses across multiple verticals. Following his retirement from rugby in 2018 he went on to work for Google full time in their UKI Large Customer Sales team, dealing with the biggest advertisers in Ireland. Invested in the business since 2017, Jamie has come on as Head of Brand Marketing to help raise the awareness of Flender through the Irish market.

Eddie brings 10 years financial services experience to Flender. Experience includes Business Lending Advisor to Agri industry with BOI and previous experience working as a Credit Analyst with AIB.

With more than nine years of experience within the SME/Corporate and Retail Banking sector, Almina brings expertise in credit analysis with particular focus on SMEs spread over a wide variety of business sectors. Almina holds a Masters in Financial Management and she is QFA part-qualified and is working towards a professional qualification.

Colin has over 10 years of experience across the banking and financial services industry with a specific focus on business development, B2B sales, and strategic account management. Previous employers include the Bluestone Group and AIB where he served alongside the senior management team in various roles including sales, product design, business development, and credit analysis. In his role with Flender, Colin is responsible for direct management of the entire Flender Originations team and Flenders intermediary network of over 300 brokers across Ireland.

Cassie joined the Flender team in June 2019. She has two years experience in the Finance sector, working for a finance broker in the North West of Ireland. She completed her Honours degree in Business specialising in Finance in 2017 with the Institute of Technology Sligo and is APA qualified with the Institute of Banking. Her role in Flender will be is assisting Flender partnerships with accountants, financial brokers and SME advisers with all day to day operations.

Ben joined the Flender team in September 2019. He graduated from Maynooth University in 2018 with a degree in Finance and Business. After University, Ben moved to Chicago where he worked as a Junior Credit Analyst. Ben's role at Flender involves building strong relationships with customers ensuring they receive the financial support needed to grow their businesses.

Paul joined Flender as a business development manager in November 2018 bringing over 12 years of business development & account management experience. Pauls past experience comes from the financial services sector wherein he worked with AIB Merchant Services generating new business and building relationship for both SME & Corporate clients. Within his role, Paul’s focus is to build long term relationships with his clients to help them achieve their necessary business growth.

Ursula is a fully qualified QFA and has over 12 years’ experience in the financial services sector. Ursula has worked with both Bank of Ireland and New Ireland Assurance where she developed a broad and valuable skillset through contact with a wide range of customers and products. Ursula’s focus is to provide exemplar service and support to Flender’s clients and partners. Ursula joined Flender in February 2020.

Farhad is a KPMG trained chartered accountant, placing in the top 1 percentile in the Final Admittance Exams. He has worked in the financial services sector, specialising in the audit of funds and investment companies. He is now leading the finance division of Flender, applying his vast technical and analytical skills to this new line of business.

MingHsuan has 5 years visual design experience in the IT industry and specialises in web design, visual communication and multimedia design. He is a pure UX enthusiast and holds an MA in Interaction Design from National College of Art and Design.

Oleksii is an expert in all aspects of system design, development and implementation. He is an experienced software engineer using Ruby and PHP for 8 years. His main interests lie in Cloud Computing and Microservices. Oleksii has a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev.

Nitanshu is a proactive full stack ruby on rails software engineer with over two and half years of experience in the IT industry. In addition, he is a highly driven individual with masters in Information System With Computing from Dublin Business School.

Jin is a full-stack Web Application Developer and Software Developer. He has a BSc. in Information Technology from the College of Computing Technology in Dublin, and has 2 years’ experience as a Java software engineer with a focus on Android development. Jin has a keen interest in Ruby on Rails and a passion for writing clean and efficient code. He is driven, self-motivated and constantly experimenting with new technologies and techniques. He is passionate about Web Development and strives to better himself as a developer. Jin joined the Flender team in February 2020.