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AutoGravity Hires General Counsel

AutoGravity, an Irvine-based auto-lending fintech, hired Jennifer Ishiguro as executive vice president and general counsel.

Ishiguro previously was chief legal officer at Gateway One Lending & Finance LLC, the auto finance company subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation (NYSE: TCF), a publicly-held bank holding company with $23 billion in assets. She also worked eight years at Toyota Motor Credit Corporation.

AutoGravity’s app has been downloaded about 2 million times and has generated some $2.5 billion in financing. The company is backed by Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz unit and VW Credit Inc.

Ishiguro is currently vice chair of the Southern California Region of the U.S.-Japan Council and is a member of the Japanese American Bar Association. She earned her J.D., cum laude from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. in International Studies and Comparative Literature, cum laude from Yale University.

Before law school, she was a speechwriter for United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and studied international trade law in Japan on a Fulbright fellowship.

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Peter J. Brennan
Peter J. Brennan
Peter J. Brennan has been a journalist for 40 years. He spent a decade in Latin America covering wars, narcotic traffickers, earthquakes, and business. His resume includes 15 years at Bloomberg News where his headlines and articles sometimes moved the market caps of companies he covered by hundreds of millions of dollars. His articles have been published worldwide, including the New York Times and the Washington Post; he's appeared on CNN, CBC, BBC, and Bloomberg TV. He was awarded a Kiplinger Fellowship at The Ohio State University.
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