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PeerStreet Hires Major Players to Leadership Team

LOS ANGELES—Former Amazon product manager Brendan Kao and OneWest Bank senior banking executive Marc Heenan join PeerStreet, a crowdfunding platform for commercial real estate.

By Kelsi Maree Borland | Updated on June 09, 2015

LOS ANGELES—PeerStreet has expanded its leadership team with the hiring of two major industry players. Brendan Kao joins the crowdfunding platform from Amazon and will serve as head of product management, and Marc Heenan joins the firm from OneWest Bank and will serve as head of commercial originations.

“As a friend of mine once said, ‘If a spaceship lands in your backyard, what do you do? You get in.’ To me the FinTech space is absolutely exciting because the future has yet to be scripted and its inherent difficultly to succeed,” Kao tells GlobeSt.com. “It takes people who have a mind for technology, business and regulation. “At PeerStreet, I can use my background in computer science, law, and product management, all in the same day towards disrupting and improving this industry.” Kao formerly served as a development manager at Amazon, but his storied resume includes tenures at FlashFunders, Pivotal Labs and ZestFinance. He has significant experience working for start-ups, and has a master’s degree in computer science from MIT and a JD from New York University‘s School of Law.

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