Board of Directors

Mitch Jacobs
Chief Executive Officer, On Deck Capital

Mitch Jacobs is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of On Deck Capital, the leading financing network for small businesses unable to qualify for traditional loans. Recognized as one of the nation's leading entrepreneurs in the financial services industry, Jacobs sold his two previous payment-processing startups to public companies. He has emerged as an expert voice on small business, particularly in the highly fragmented sub-five-million dollar sector.

Previously, Jacobs was the Chief Strategy Officer of Comdata Processing Systems, a leading provider of secured payment transactions. He joined Comdata (NYSE: CEN) upon their acquisition of Tranvia, Inc. the credit card processing company of which he was the Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Tranvia, Jacobs was Vice President of Product Management at Student Advantage (NASDAQ: STAD), the nation's leading provider of media and transaction services to universities. Jacobs joined Student Advantage after their acquisition of his first company, Transaction Service Providers, Inc., a small business solution that provided stored value services to on- and off-campus merchants at leading universities around the country.

Jacobs holds a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. He and his wife, Samantha Ettus, reside in New York City with their two daughters.

Dr. Alan Blinder
Director, Princeton University Center for Economic Policy Studies

Dr. Alan S. Blinder is Vice Chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network. He is also the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Director of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies, which he founded in 1990.

Dr. Blinder served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1994 until January 1996. In this position, he was a member of the Board's committees on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Consumer and Community Affairs, and Derivative Instruments. Before becoming a member of the Board of Governors, Dr. Blinder served as a Member of President Clinton's original Council of Economic Advisers. During the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, he served as an economic adviser to Al Gore and John Kerry.

Dr. Blinder is the author or co-author of 17 books and has written scores of scholarly articles on such topics as fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the distribution of income. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Bellagio Group, a former governor of the American Stock Exchange, and has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Blinder holds an A.B. from Princeton University, a M.Sc. from London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Matt Harris
Managing General Partner, Village Ventures

Matt Harris is the Co-founder and Managing General Partner of Village Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with $150 million under management.

Before founding Village Ventures, Harris was the founding Managing Director of The Berkshires Capital Investors, a venture capital fund associated with Williams College. Under Harris's leadership, BCI's first fund of $5 million invested in 12 companies, with eight successful exits to date. Harris began his career as a consultant at Bain & Company where his most notable transactions included the $1.1 billion purchase and subsequent sale of a credit-reporting agency, and the $90 million purchase of a medical products distributor.

In addition to On Deck Capital, Harris sits on the corporate boards of Bluetarp Financial, Swift Financial, Vico Software, TxCore, Inc. and LTSave, Inc. Harris has served as Chair of Mass Competitive Council for Berkshire County, an economic development initiative sponsored by the governor of Massachusetts, and serves as a Board Member of the John Adams Innovation Institute and a member of the Renewable Energy Industry Support Advisory Board. Harris is a Trustee for the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He is the President of the Board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and a founding Board Member and Treasurer of Camp Starfish, a camp for troubled and disadvantaged youth outside Boston, Massachusetts.

Harris holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College.

James Robinson III
General Partner, RRE Ventures; Former Chairman , CEO, American Express

James Robinson III is a General Partner and Co-Founder of RRE Ventures, a private information technology venture investment firm, and President of J.D. Robinson, Inc., a strategic consulting firm.

Robinson was Chairman and CEO of American Express Company from 1977 until his retirement from the company in 1993. Previously, Robinson held several executive positions within American Express and was a General Partner with White Weld & Co. He also served as Assistant to the Chairman and President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company.

In addition to On Deck Capital, Robinson serves on the Board of Directors of The Coca-Cola Company, Novell, Inc., PrimeRevenue, and Revolution Money. He is also Honorary Chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, an Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution, and Chairman Emeritus of the Partnership for New York City and the World Travel and Tourism Council. Robinson served as Co-Chairman of the Business Roundtable and as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations.

Robinson holds an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Simon Williams
President, Camelot Financial Capital Management

Simon Williams is President of Camelot Financial Capital Management, a global investment group focused on long-term financial services investments.

Williams is also an Executive Partner of SAC Private Capital Group, a global private equity group affiliated with SAC. In this role, he is responsible for identifying investment opportunities in financial services businesses around the world and participating in the management of those investments.

Williams was previously a senior executive at Citigroup Inc., where he held various roles during his career including CEO of Citibank International Retail Bank, head of Asia Pacific Consumer Group, head of Latin America Consumer Group and finally, Chief Risk Officer for Citigroup Global Consumer Group. He was also a member of the Management Committee of Citigroup. Williams has also held senior management roles at GE Capital, Bain & Co., and Price Waterhouse in London.

Williams is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, the largest professional accountancy body in Europe. He is Chairman of Cosmos Bank in Taiwan, ROC, on the Board of Trustees of Brunswick School, Greenwich CT., a Member of the Dean's Council of NYU Wagner School and on the Advisory Board of RSR Partnership. He was previously on the Board of the Student Loan Corporation (NYSE STU).

Williams graduated with a degree in mathematics from Exeter University and holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, where he graduated with distinction.