EVERETT SANDS
FOUNDER/CEO
LENDISTRY
WHY: Since founding company in 2015, he has provided 639,000 small businesses with $10B in small business loans and grants, making it the largest minority-led micro-business lender in the country. During the pandemic, Lendistry was one of the top 10 lenders in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
NOTABLE: Convinced Todd Hollander, a 30+ year executive banker at MUFG Union Bank and Wells Fargo, to join in 2023 as chief lending and revenue office.
IN THE NEWS: Expands this year to residential loans.
QUOTABLE: “This is about wealth building, and home ownership is shown historically to be one of the biggest avenues of wealth building. So small business and home ownership, at least from where I stand in trying to help people build wealth — that’s what we’re really interested in.” — Los Angeles Business Journal
