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Brian Lanehart is the President of Momnt, an embedded financial services platform for digital, point-of-need lending and payments. Lanehart is responsible for the company’s adherence to its vision, mission, and strategy. He provides leadership and oversight across many different verticals, including finance, fundraising, product and technology strategy, compliance, analytics and AI/ML, marketing efforts and strategic selling.
As an industry veteran, holding many executive leadership titles and starting his own consulting firm, Lanehart is an expert in strategy, technology, and product execution. He’s applied keen decision-making skills to create joint ventures and alliances to improve operations and performance for clients in the legal, technical and financial industries. Lanehart continues to contribute to an environment of success, having a pulse on market trends, competition as well as executing strategies to benefit Momnt stakeholders.
Before joining Momnt, Lanehart was the senior vice president of global innovation at Brightwell, where he created their global go-to-market strategy and technical vision for a new initiative. He was able to establish and manage a way for migrant workers to transfer money across borders and currencies in real-time and hold multiple non-virtual currencies from a single account. In doing so, he formed strategic partnerships, performed competitive analysis and managed the innovative practice by creating long-term value adds to the platform.
Lanehart also led the strategic vision for growing another FinTech into the consumer lending space, where his VC decks put this company on the acquisition watchlist for Google, Citi, and others, as well as closed a $5 million Series B round.
Much of his recent career was at GreenSky, where he was the director of business services then transitioned to director of product. Due to his detailed industry and competitive intelligence, the company awarded him the product owner position of the company’s core platform where he created and implemented improvements for Finance & Compliance, Data Analytics, and chaired the API Governance team. Also charged with re-monetizing the company’s platform, he orchestrated and strategically planned a new go-to-market strategy for the API offering, growing revenue of this channel from 11% of total revenue to over 35% in total revenue over 24 months. He also chartered the company’s eCommerce and Speciality Retail offering, growing a pipeline of $120M in net new lending under 12 months while also cutting the operating cost of the eCommerce program by over 50% which resulted in creating the most profitable program in the company’s portfolio.
Lanehart graduated from Samford University with a bachelor’s degree in finance & entrepreneurship and computer science and minor in philosophy and music performance. He attended college with a music performance scholarship. He currently resides in the Dunwoody area north of Atlanta, where he spends his free time reading, going to concerts and movies, watching and playing soccer and tennis, reading and traveling.
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