Douglas Merrill
Douglas Merrill
Douglas Clark Merrillis the CEO and founder of ZestFinance.com, a Los Angeles-based financial services technology company that uses big data to help make better credit underwriting decisions in order to provide credit alternatives to the underbanked. ZestCash announced a $19 million round of Series A funding in July 2011, and a $74 million round of Series B funding in January 2012. The company was one of Forbes’ Names You Need to Know in 2011...
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