Our People

Meet the Team

Creditfern's founding team combines community banking operations, consumer credit modeling, core banking sales, regulatory examination, and academic credit research. Every role maps directly to a gap in how community bank SMB credit decisioning works today.

Founders and operators

Jordan Blackwell

Jordan Blackwell

CEO & Co-Founder

Four years as a commercial loan officer at a Charlotte community bank before co-founding Creditfern; prior credit analyst at Fifth Third Bank.

Naomi Fischer

Naomi Fischer

CTO & Co-Founder

Former LendingClub data scientist; leads cash flow feature extraction and model calibration architecture at Creditfern.

Marcus Oduya

Marcus Oduya

Head of Bank Partnerships

Six years in core banking sales at Jack Henry, embedding lending tech at Southeast community banks; leads bank partnerships.

Claudia Restrepo

Claudia Restrepo

Compliance & Fair Lending Lead

Former Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond examiner specializing in CRA and fair lending; authors Creditfern's compliance framework.

Eli Nakashima

Eli Nakashima

ML Engineer

UNC statistics PhD, dissertation on alternative-data credit scoring; owns feature engineering behind Creditfern's scoring model.

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