Lending Club Appoints Thomas Casey As CFO

(RTTNews) - Lending Club (LC), Monday said it has appointed industry veteran Thomas Casey will as its new Chief Financial Officer, effective September 19, 2016.

Casey most recently worked at Acelity, where he was Executive Vice President and CFO. He also has more than two decades of senior financial services leadership experience at GE Capital, Washington Mutual, JP Morgan Chase, and Citicorp.

Casey will report to Scott Sanborn, President & CEO.

Casey's appointment follows several other recent high-profile hires, including Patrick Dunne from Blackrock as Chief Capital Officer, Valerie Kay from Morgan Stanley as Head of Institutional Investors, Raman Suri from Blackrock as Head of Retail Investors, and Sameer Gulati from McKinsey as Chief Operations Officer.