CM

Charley Ma

Advisor at Knot

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder, Managing Partner

    2021 - Current

    EFC is a $123M fund focused on backing early founders with strong opinions. We’ve scaled multiple companies from $0 to $100M+ in revenue at companies such as Plaid, Robinhood, Ramp, Alloy, and more. For our founders, we are laser focused on supporting them from the earliest stages of that journey. exponentcap.co

  • Growth Advisor

    2023

  • Head of Growth

    2022 - 2023

    Alloy provides a command center for identity, helping companies make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage onboarding, transaction monitoring, credit underwriting, and much more. Focused on marketing, sales, new products, and corp dev for Alloy.

  • GM of Fintech

    2021 - 2023

  • Advisor

    2022

  • Product Advisory Board Member

    2022

  • Head of Growth

    2020 - 2021

    Ramp is the only corporate card that helps companies spend less. Led Ramp’s revenue team as first head of growth from 0 clients to the fastest growing corporate card program in the US + NYC's fastest growing startup.

  • NYC GM

    2018 - 2020

    - restocked LaCroix (again) for our first NYC office - spent most of my day working with with my team on all things technical integrations + client growth, managing + expanding the NYC office, and building out our fintech community in NYC - site lead for combined NYC office of Plaid + Quovo (acquisition closed in Jan 2019) - launched Plaid in Canada, UK, EU - sold a lot more Plaid stuff

  • Fintech GTM

    2016 - 2018

    - built out sales team, lead fintech + developer sales - sold more Plaid stuff

  • Growth

    2015 - 2016

    - first business hire / employee #9, did a bunch of stuff including restocking a lot of LaCroix - sold some Plaid stuff

  • Integrated Payments Strategy Group

    2014 - 2015

    Developed and recommended strategy for JPMorganChase's C-level leadership, with a focus on emerging payments business models, fintech companies, and virtual currencies. Created initial strategy around digital currencies and led firmwide bitcoin & blockchain working group across JPMorgan Chase.

  • Product Management & Strategy, CIB New Product Development and Emerging Technologies

    2012 - 2014

    CIB New Product Development and Emerging Technologies CIB Strategy: Research and Development Led initial strategy around Bitcoin + blockchain for JPMChase. Built the next generation of technology products for JPMorgan with a team of product managers, data scientists, and engineers. Highlights included creating a machine-learning model to streamline sanctions screen process, launching a global trade network analysis product for liquidity + supply chain finance, and creating a cross-bank FIX API spec for fixed income dealer inventory.

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