Mark Friedgan
CEO of NinjaHoldings
Mark Friedgan
CEO of NinjaHoldings
North Miami Beach, Florida
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2017 - Current
Headquartered in Chicago, NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 and seeks to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through its CreditNinja® and NinjaCard™ brands, the company offers a full suite of digital banking and lending products for the everyday American. Through its NinjaEdge™ business line, the company offers a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics software services that helps companies better understand their customers.
Co-founder and Executive Board Member
2012
Eligo Energy is a leading retail electricity, natural gas and community solar supplier based in Chicago. Eligo partners with preferred brokers and affiliates throughout the country. Our leadership in technology integration and innovative product offerings are now available to select partners. We operate in 14 states and service over 100,000 customers. Eligo was #111 on the Inc 5000 list in 2017.
Principal
2010
Hubrix Ventures is an early stage investor in a variety of companies across the globe. We provide structured capital options for a variety of early and growth stage businesses.
Board Member
2020 - 2024
Online healthcare marketplace offering patients easy access to quality doctors with transparent and upfront prices
Founding Partner
2011 - 2012
Helped found and define CatapultFund as an early stage accelerator. Selecting companies and mentoring entrepreneurs.
Board Member
2011 - 2012
As an early investor and advisor to the company I've helped them apply and get accepted to Y-Combinator and now as one of the most promising companies in their class. Company was acquired by Avant Credit. Helped the company through acquisition and transition.
CIO
2005 - 2011
Part of the founding team. Oversaw all of technology and analytics for $500 million Internet division. Managed 150 person team consisting of 7 departments with a $15M annual budget Saved $530 per call center seat with improved efficiency. The call center is now able to handle the same call volume with 25 percent fewer customer representatives by switching to Linux based thin-client solution for call center representatives. Prepared technology platform and team for Sarbanes Oxley and PCI level II compliance. Built online lending platform using Ruby on Rails, currently hosting lending sites in 4 countries Created Ruby distributed computing framework around TupleSpaces Created dynamic configuration framework, released under GPL as CnuConfig Created Pattern Matching functions for Ruby, released under GPL as Matchable When I took over as CIO this was the quote during the investor call with Cash America (http://seekingalpha.com/article/87216-cash-america-international-inc-q2-2008-earnings-call-transcript): "Mark has been with CashNet since May of 2005 and has played an integral role in building and supporting the current online platform. He has as much, if not more, institutional knowledge of our online operating systems as any one else in the organization."
Director
2001 - 2005
CDW Created a Java framework to facilitate easy migration from AS/400 RPG programs to Websphere hosted applications on the IBM iSeries. Created a data persistence layer, logging, queue management and job scheduling infrastructure as well as a workflow engine using an open source rules engine. Taught classes on the use of the framework as well as object oriented programming. Product Animations Rebuilt software environment from unstructured source dump for a Java3D application. Created build process using Ant. Created installer using Nullsoft Installer. Added features to system such as Text-to-Speech based voice prompts. Videosave.net Acted as Project Manager with 3 subcontractors in managing the clients development and maintenance needs Improved video capture server software by moving video capture and compression code from Java to C++ and interfacing it with the original Java code through JNI Rewrote capture software to produce MPEG-4 video instead of MJPEG
Software Engineer
2002 - 2004
Created framework for UI Web Development for ease of creating user interfaces by offshore developers. Developed Application Access Control framework. Developed Web Based Rule editor for a custom ILOG JRules implementation. Team Lead of a 3 person team on a Windows smart client. The application is written in VB.NET, C# and C++/COM. It utilizes Web Services to communicate with the server. The application includes functionality to manipulate images, view downloaded documents and perform reinspections. It is installed using Installshield Developed a B2B application for communication between insurance companies and repair dispatchers. The application is based on the J2EE platform and uses JSP, Java Beans and the Struts Framework and runs on the Weblogic Application Server. Acted as Development Lead on the project. Developed Registration Application using JSP and the Struts framework running on Weblogic. Developed the architecture for a tree based Struts applications using UML. The application allows the customer service team to rapidly register new customers by automating the creation of LDAP accounts and setting up of roles and permissions for each user. Acted as Development Lead on the project. Lead the upgrade effort from BEA Portal version 3.2 to version 7.0 and then to version 8.1, working extensively with an offshore development team Introduced the development organization to navigation maps as a documentation tool for web based applications.
Software Engineer
2001 - 2002
Developed software for a Wireless Application Server. Designed application API using UML in Rational Rose. The API interacted with an XML parser to create dynamic applications. Modeled and then implemented a multi-modal news application utilizing voice recognition and text-to-speech to provide a rich multimedia experience on a wireless device. The software was designed with UML, coded in C++ and built for both Windows 2000 and Solaris. News content was pulled in from sources using Unix shell scripts. Supported user acceptance test of the software at major Spanish cellular carrier.