Manny Brown

Manny wears many hats as COO of Plum Lending. His central role in providing the leadership, strategic vision, and tactical execution as Plum increases its scope and scale providing users of capital with amazing products and services in their local markets. Before joining Plum, he spent 13 years repositioning and growing Cohen Financial/Pillar Financial as a premier nationwide Commercial Real Estate Mortgage Banker, Agency Lender, and Servicer. Selling the business to SunTrust in 2016 and remaining on through the merger with BB&T that created the new Truist Financial. Prior to that Manny successfully led the rapid growth and repositioning of companies within small private companies, larger public corporations, all within the Specialty Retail, the Sporting, the Healthcare, and the Specialty Chemicals industries. Manny has an M.B.A from the University of Chicago Booth School and a B.A. from Lake Forest College. His family is his greatest enjoyment, his canine buddies are his walking partners, and golf is his way to enjoy friendly competition.