Ira Platt

Since its inception in 2009, Mr. Platt has been the President of Georgiana Ventures, LLC, a firm that provides equity and debt capital to specialty finance companies, acquires portfolios of consumer finance receivables and offers consulting services to the specialty finance industry. From May 2009 to December 2013, Mr. Platt served as the President of 221 Capital Partners, LLC, a firm that provides advisory services. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Platt was the Portfolio Manager for the Rosemont TALF Opportunity Fund, a partnership investing in asset-backed securities. In addition, Mr. Platt was a Managing Director and Head of the Principal & Distressed Capital Business for RBS Greenwich Capital, the domestic fixed income banking unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, from 1997 to 2009. Mr. Platt was an Executive Vice President of the Aegis Consumer Funding Group, a publicly traded non-prime automotive finance company, from 1991 to 1997. Mr. Platt earned a B.A. degree in 1985 from Emory University and an M.B.A. from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.