During the early years at CardWorks Servicing, he also served as an industry consultant, and later as Vice President, for Smith Barney Investment Bank (1989-1991) in the Financial Institutions Group.ĭaniel J. Pillemer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CardWorks Inc., the parent company of Merrick Bank, CardWorks Servicing, and Carson Smithfield. He serves on the boards of directors of each of the four entities.ĭan was named CEO in 2021, after serving as President for six years. Dan joined CardWorks in 2015, after 14 years of partnership with Don Berman and CardWorks in a variety of transactions. Prior to CardWorks, Dan was Founder, Chairman and CEO of Kilowatt Financial, one of the earliest clean energy consumer finance companies, delivering solar PPAs, solar leases, solar loans, energy efficiency loans and PACE financing through contractors across the US. Prior to Kilowatt, Dan founded and ran FG Companies, a consumer finance merchant banking firm that advised on $1.5 billion in completed buyside transactions, raised over $1.2 billion in capital for consumer finance companies, sold over $10 billion face value of assets, and was involved in the creation of multiple successful consumer finance businesses. Prior to FG, Dan was a principal investor at Goldman Sachs, where he served as a member of the investment committee of the US Special Situations Group, and was responsible for asset, credit and private equity investments in consumer finance assets, originators and other illiquid asset classes.ĭan holds a BSc(Hons) in Pure Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dan lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Greg Linakis is Executive Vice President and Head of Merrick Bank’s Merchant Acquiring Business, one of the three lines of business at CardWorks, Inc.

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