Taycor Financial, a commercial finance company, announced the addition of Dr. Pallavi Kharbanda as Head of Data Science and Justin Wheeler as Head of Product & Business Development. They will report to Michael Hong, Chief Executive Officer of Taycor, and will be part of Taycor’s executive leadership team.

Kharbanda comes to Taycor after being a freelance data scientist and university professor. She has advanced degrees in statistics and mathematics and has been published in international journals of repute for her research. Kharbanda has a PhD in applied mathematics and was a Professor of Statistics, Predictive Modeling, Data Processing and Machine Learning for over a decade.

“Data Science is critical to competing at the highest levels,” said Robert Butler, Chief Technology Officer. “We are so pleased to have someone with Dr. Kharbanda’s knowledge and experience on the Taycor Technology Team.”

Wheeler also joined Taycor after spending the last three years at Currency Capital, where he served as Chief Product Officer and oversaw technology, innovation and supported business development efforts. Prior to Currency, Wheeler was Vice President, Product Innovation at Survey Sampling International, and VP Product Innovation & Business Development at Instantly. Wheeler started his career at Overture Services, Inc. which was acquired by Yahoo Search Marketing – the original paid search offering (eventually emulated with great success by Google).

“Justin is visionary and an ambassador of breakthrough technology – a true innovator,” said CEO Hong. “His serial successes and experience in the equipment finance space makes him an obvious choice to lead product and business development initiatives at Taycor. We are thrilled to welcome Justin to Taycor’s executive team.”

“We welcome both Pallavi and Justin as well as all our newest team members in sales and operations with great enthusiasm and know that they’ll all play a crucial role in Taycor’s continued growth,” concluded Hong.

Founded in 1997, Taycor Financial has offices in Los Angeles, CA; Orange County, CA; San Jose, CA; and Scottsdale, AZ. Taycor the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest growing private companies.