{"id":11766,"date":"2017-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oportundev3.wpengine.com\/news\/intuit-cfo-r-neil-williams-joins-oportun-board-of-directors\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:39:59","slug":"intuit-cfo-r-neil-williams-joins-oportun-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oportun.com\/es\/news\/intuit-cfo-r-neil-williams-joins-oportun-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuit CFO R. Neil Williams joins Oportun Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-3226\" class=\"post-3226 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>REDWOOD CITY, CA\u00a0\u2013 November 8, 2017 \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"\/\">Oportun<\/a>, a mission-driven financial services company that provides personal loans to people with little or no credit history, today announced that Neil Williams will be joining the company\u2019s board of directors. Williams, who is best known for serving as Chief Financial Officer of Intuit since 2008, recently announced that he would be stepping down from that role in January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Oportun CEO Raul Vazquez said he was grateful that Williams had agreed to join Oportun\u2019s board of directors. \u201cNeil brings so much to the Oportun board. In addition to having nearly three decades of experience at financial services companies like Visa and Intuit, Neil has an acute understanding of the challenges our customers face every day,\u201d said Vazquez. \u201cWe know that he will make an important contribution to our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in Mississippi and have seen how hard it is for people to respond to unforeseen difficulties or opportunities when they are living paycheck to paycheck and have neither savings nor access to credit,\u201d said Williams. \u201cAccording to the CFPB, there are an estimated 45 million people in the United States who have little or no credit history. Oportun has the proprietary scoring engine and business model necessary to lend them the money they need so they can establish credit and build a better future. I\u2019m looking forward to serving as board member and doing my part to help Oportun address this important social need.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><strong>ABOUT OPORTUN<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Oportun is a mission-driven financial services company that uses advanced data analytics and technology to provide responsible, affordable personal loans that help people with little or no credit history establish credit and build a better future. The company\u2019s centralized data analytics system calculates each loan applicant\u2019s ability to repay, approves those loans the company believes can be paid back, and sets loan amounts and terms to fit customer budgets. Customer account information is also reported to credit bureaus to help customers establish credit history.<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 2005, Oportun has helped more than a million customers by disbursing more than $4 billion through more than two million small dollar loans. According to research commissioned by Oportun and conducted by the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), a leading authority in consumer financial health, Oportun customers have saved more than a billion dollars in interest and fees by choosing Oportun loans instead of other options widely available to people with little or no credit history, including payday and pawn loans. Those alternatives are four times more expensive on average, but can be up to seven times more expensive. Oportun operates more than 250 retail locations and delivers bilingual (English\/Spanish) customer service via retail locations, contact centers, and\/or mobile to customers in Arizona, California, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments-area\">\n<div id=\"respond\" class=\"comment-respond\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-11766","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportun.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/11766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportun.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportun.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oportun.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}