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.

Serving on Flender’s Risk Oversight and Audit committee, David has worked in high yield credit, and intensive and structured debt capital markets, in major international banks including Chase Manhattan and JPMorgan in London.

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.

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.

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.

Barry has been in high performing sales management for over 10 years, working with leading organisations such as Eir, SSE Airtricity and CPM Ireland. Barry joined Flender in October 2018, bringing with him a wealth of experience in corporate business development. He has been building, coaching and leading sales teams whilst progressing elite sales executives in the corporate, SME and consumer space.

Colin has significant experience in new business development,B2B sales and building lasting relationships across the financial services landscape. Colin has worked for a number of leading institutions such as Bluestone Asset Finance,Hays and AIB Bank. In his role with Flender, Colin will be responsible for developing partnership opportunities across Ireland with accountants, financial brokers and SME advisors.

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.

Kara joined Flender in October 2018, bringing with her a wealth of experience in business development and client management in both the property letting and financial services industries. Kara's experience lies in new business acquisition having spent over 15 years working with corporate clients. Kara is passionate about helping SMEs secure access to funding and has previously worked with other alternative lenders over the past 5 years. Within her role at Flender, Kara's main objective is to build long term, lasting relationships with customers by ensuring Flender is their lending partner of choice.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.