OnDeck announced the hiring of three senior financial services executives as members of its management teams in Risk, Partnerships and Marketing.

The new executives are:

Risk
Chris McCall has joined OnDeck as Head of Acquisition Risk Management with responsibility for the maintenance and development of acquisition credit strategies and direct targeting/risk reward optimization. McCall will have dual responsibility for creating new business value as well as serving in a control function across his span of responsibility. Prior to joining OnDeck, he was Head of Group Decision Sciences for Commonwealth Bank of Australia's New York office, where he developed lending products, strategies and analytic solutions to support CBA's expansion into emerging markets. He also spent over 15 years working at Capital One in progressively senior positions focused on decision sciences, predictive modelling and the application of analytics strategies to business problems.

Partnerships
Gregory Johnson has joined OnDeck as the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships where he leads a team that engages revenue growth partners ranging from highly integrated strategic marketplace lending platforms to firms with extensive small business relationships. Most recently, Johnson was Senior Vice President of Business Growth for the Americas at Xero, an accounting software company, where he oversaw partnerships, acquisition, business development, sales, digital response and account development. He previously served in senior leadership roles at United Parcel Service, American Express and Capital One.

Marketing
Matt Cluney has joined OnDeck as Vice President of Brand and Product Marketing. Prior to OnDeck, Cluney was Senior Vice President and Head of Customer Engagement at Citi, where he led product management and marketing strategy for the Citi / American Airlines co-branded card portfolio. During his tenure at Citi, He played a key role in relaunching the Citi / AAdvantage Platinum Select MasterCard product. Prior to Citi, Cluney led the marketing function at The Associated Press and at Law360, the legal news division of LexisNexis. He previously spent 12 years at American Express in a variety of marketing roles across both the Consumer and Business-to-Business divisions.

"We are delighted to welcome Chris, Gregory and Matt to OnDeck," said Andrea Gellert, Chief Revenue Officer, OnDeck. "Each of these talented executives bring strategic leadership experience at Fortune 500 financial services companies and a strong track record of success in their respective fields. We look forward to their contributions as OnDeck builds on its leadership in online small business lending."

In December, the small business online lending firm announced it would offer equipment finance loans starting in 2019. For more on OnDeck’s plans see the Equipment Finance Advisor’s exclusive interview with Mark Erickson as Vice President of Equipment Finance and OnDeck Chairman and CEO Noah Breslow.