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Our Advisory Board

Fortified by experience

A wealth of experience across automotive, structured finance, commodities, market design and derivatives trading

Klaus Entenmann

Klaus has over 35 years experience as an automotive captive finance executive and board member. He is currently the Senior Advisor for Future of automotive at Deloitte, an Advisor for Seedbox Ventures; and the Chairman of the Board at Mercedes-Benz Auto Finance Beijing.

Previously he was the President & CEO of DaimlerChrysler Services AG / Daimler automotive AG and the Managing Director of Chrysler Financial and Daimler Truck Financial.

Kirk Shyroc

Kirk has over 20 years experience as a structured finance & auto-finance industry executive, entrepreneur, board member and investor. He is a Partner and Co-Founder of automotive Financial Management and Hard Right Solutions, as well as a Board Member of Car Capital Technologies.

Previously he has held the position of Vice President & Assistant Treasurer of Capital Markets, Hertz and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Fair Financial.

Andree Ohmstedt

Andree has over 30 years of experience in Auto Finance. He has held roles as CFO at Mercedes-Benz Bank, Daimler Financial Services Americas and Daimler Financial Services South Africa.

Prior to that, he worked as a Group Leader for the Debis Financial Services Latin America and Mercedes-Benz Credit Corp.

Jagdeep Dayal

Jagdeep has over 25 years experience in captive auto finance, mortgages, consumer credit and commercial & CRE.

Previously he was the Business Head/President of Captive Auto Finance at JPMorgan Chase and the Chief Commercial Officer at Optum Financial/Optum Bank (A United Health Group Company).

Justin Tisler

Justin has over 25 years experience in structured finance and capital markets as a treasury executive, entrepreneur and investor. He is also the Co-founder of Car Capital Technologies.

Previously he was the Co-Head of Consumer ABS Origination, Credit Suisse, Executive Director Head of US ABS Capital Markets, UBS and Treasurer at Fair Financial.

Alan Swimmer

Alan has over 30 years experience and is a board member and derivatives industry veteran experienced in launching new exchanges and executing listing agreements with established exchanges.

Currently he is the Managing Director at Horizon Kinetics, and has previously held roles as the Board of Director, Minneapolis Grain Exchange and Head of Futures & Options Trading at Bear Stearns & JP Morgan.

John Heaton

Professor Heaton is a Finance Professor at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and Director of the UChicago’s Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), which develops indices including benchmarks used for 16 Vanguard Equity ETFs.

Prior to joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 2000, Heaton was the Nathan S. and Mary P. Sharp Distinguished Professor of Finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He also has held positions at MIT's Sloan School of Management and at the Hoover Institution. Heaton is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The practical problems investors and institutions face are a key component of his teaching.

Chad Syverson

Professor Syverson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business where he focuses on market design. Syverson is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served on National Academies committees and as the chair of the Chicago Census Research Data Center Board.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Chicago, Syverson was a mechanical engineer for Loral Defense Systems and Unisys Corporation.

Bill Heskett

Bill has decades of experience in global and structured finance.

Previously he has held roles as the Managing Director of Asset-Backed Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald, Managing Director of Global Structured Finance at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch, and as Managing Director of Global ABS/MBS at Bank of America Securities LLC.

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