GLENN STEARNS
FOUNDER/CEO
KIND LENDING
WHY: In 1989, founded Stearns Lending, which he built to 2,700 employees and more than 100 retail locations. In 2015, sold a majority stake to Blackstone in one of the largest acquisitions of a private lending company ever made in the U.S. In 2019, he began Santa Ana-based Kind Lending.
NOTABLE: Was first star of “Undercover Billionaire” TV show.
QUOTABLE: “Building a brand and cultivating a culture which has positioned Kind Lending to be the fastest growing wholesale Lender in the country in under four years.”
