In honor of March 8’s International Woman’s Day, Comparably looked to highlight some of the businesses around the U.S. with females in the role of Chief Executive Officer. While there is still a major imbalance in terms of gender parity – last year’s Fortune 500 included just 6.6% women – here are a selection of financial service companies that have female CEOs calling the shots.
Location: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Denise Thomas
ApplePie Capital is a marketplace lender that provides a fresh new approach to franchise financing. The firm’s franchise loan marketplace enables entrepreneurs to efficiently obtain financing to start or expand their franchise business. ApplePie Capital enables investors to earn attractive fixed-income returns with established franchise brands they know and trust.
Location: Jersey City, N.J.
CEO: Susan Estes
OpenDoor Trading enhances liquidity of Off-the-Run Treasuries (OFTR’s) and TIPS, the principal pain points in US Treasuries, through a cost effective, all-to-all, session-based trading platform. Its customers include some of the world’s largest asset managers, central banks, primary dealers, hedge funds, and trading firms.
OpenDoor Trading is hiring! Find your next role here.
CEO: Krista Morgan
Location: Denver, CO
P2Binvestor is the leading marketplace lender for $500K to $10M A/R and inventory lines of credit for businesses that can’t get traditional bank financing. P2Binvestor allows these companies to leverage our easy-to-use online platform to receive financing from P2Bi’s crowd of accredited investors and community bank partners.
P2BInvestor is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Anu Shultes
LendUp’s mission is to provide anyone with a path to better financial health. The company builds technology, credit products and educational experiences for the 56% of the US population who are shut out of mainstream banking because of poor credit or volatile incomes.
LendUp is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: New York City, NY
CEOt: Angela Ceresnie
Climb is a new kind of lending company that strives to only work with schools that consistently improve the lives of their students. The company identifies schools that consistently improve their graduates’ earning potential and justify the cost of their tuition. They it provides simple, fast, and affordable loans to their students to help them meet their career and financial goals.
“Everyone looks out for each other. Regardless of department. All looking towards a common goal so collaborative growth is important!”
Climb Credit employees rated their overall culture a A+.
Climb Credit is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: Santa Monica, CA
CEO: Shivani Siroya
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets.
Tala is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Clara Shih
Hearsay offers the complete client engagement solution for financial services, empowering advisors and agents to effectively use social media, websites, text messaging and email to build stronger relationships that grow business.
Hearsay Systems employees rated their overall culture an A-.
Hearsay Systems is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: Farmington Hills, MI
GreenPath is a national nonprofit that supports people’s lifelong financial wellness. It has 60 years of experience in guiding people through financial crisis, and is expanding to deliver a full spectrum of people-centered resources and tools for every step of the journey.
“We are collaborative and truly trying to help people.”
Greenpath employees rated their overall culture an A+
Greenpath Financial is hiring! Find your next role here.
Location: Newark, CA
CEO: Karen White
RMS provides catastrophe risk modeling solutions and services to (re)insurance, financial institutions, and the public sector to enhance their understanding of natural and man-made risk in their portfolios and support enhanced risk management practices.