Aura Names Former Univision Executive Bennett Fogel as Chief Revenue Officer
Former NCM and Univision EVP to Drive New Partnerships and Innovative Marketing Initiatives
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aura, a mission-driven financial technology company that offers affordable loans to hard-working families, has named Bennett Fogel as its Chief Revenue Officer.
“Bennett is a seasoned growth leader who has helped build some of the most impactful brands, and we are so pleased that he has joined the Aura team,” said James Gutierrez, Aura CEO. “Bennett has a proven track record in developing best-in-class sales organizations and marketing strategies to accelerate revenue growth, including in the Hispanic market. Now, he will bring this expertise to Aura and help fulfill our mission of providing affordable loans to hardworking families in America.”
“For years, I have watched as James and the Aura team have pursued its mission and developed it into a successful business with unlimited potential,” said Bennett Fogel. “With the enthusiastic response to Aura’s affordable loans and compelling new brand, I already see a number of significant growth opportunities for the company. I look forward to working with Aura’s incredible team to reach more borrowers and help them achieve their dreams.”
Before joining Aura, Bennett was Chief Revenue Officer for America’s largest cinema advertising network — NCM Media Networks — where he was responsible for all revenues, sales strategies, client relationships and divisional management across national, regional and digital sales organizations.
Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing Partnerships for Univision, where he grew revenue from $250 million to over $1 billion by creating successful marketing partnerships with fortune 500 brands.
Earlier, Bennett served in leadership roles at the Walt Disney Company and Cox Enterprises where he developed transformational sales and marketing strategies and turned them into focused, sellable and actionable solutions.
About Aura:
Aura is a technology-powered, Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides small, affordable loans to working families in America. Aura’s mission is to build financially healthy low-income communities by providing empowering financial services to America’s 66-million underbanked and unbanked. Aura has pioneered a cloud-based lending technology that enables trusted local businesses to submit credit applications for centralized review and approval by its proprietary scoring algorithms.
Currently available in nearly 1,200 locations across California, Texas, Illinois and Arizona, Aura has provided hundreds of thousands of credit-building, responsible loans to low-income households since launching in 2014. Aura was founded in 2012 by James Gutierrez, Kevin Kang, and Randy Wong. All three founders helped create and scale Oportun, a CDFI and one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Most Genius Companies in 2018. For more information visit www.myaura.com.
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(Vrge Strategies)
This article published with permission from Business Wire
