HUB STAGE: In the Shark Tank with Kevin Harrington
Join FormFree CEO Brent Chandler for a robust conversation with original Shark Tank “Shark” and inventor of the infomercial, Kevin Harrington. In this session, Harrington shares key lessons he’s learned about unlocking consumer engagement over a career of hundreds of global product launches that have generated billions in sales. He relates that experience to the huge opportunity mortgage lenders have to meet a diverse array of homebuyers with a consumer-centric experience. The session ends with a performance from music artist and fintech founder DIVINE.
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Brent Chandler is founder and CEO of FormFree. A widely recognized innovator in mortgage and financial services technologies, he has spent 25 years on the leading edge of trading, personal finance, wealth management and consumer finance. Chandler launched FormFree in 2007 after his own frustrating homebuying experience fueled an obsession with making loans simpler and safer for everyone. Prior to that, he helped create the world’s first online trade at CheckFree and helped usher in the “aggregation revolution” at CashEdge (both later acquired by Fiserv). He’s also held senior-level positions on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch and Fidelity. Chandler received his B.S. in mathematics/computer sciences from Southern Illinois University and served honorably in the Marine Corps. He sits on the board of directors for the American Red Cross of Northeast Georgia. Chandler lives in Athens, Georgia, with his wife, Amy, and two sons.
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Inventor of the Infomercial, Shark on SharkTank, Fortune 100 Investor, Philanthropist, Author; Kevin has done it all. Kevin is one of the principal pioneers of the "As Seen On TV" Industry. As the owner of AsSeenOnTV Inc. and AsSeenOnTv.com, Kevin has launched over 1,000 products in over 100 countries in dozens of languages, creating over $6 billion in global sales. As media consumption transitioned to digital, in anticipation of the explosive potential, Kevin sold all of his AsSeenOnTV assets. He then transitioned to digital media and started investing in public and private companies. Kevin now sits on the board of directors for multiple companies and has created over $10 billion in value.
Victor D. Lombard, professionally known as DIVINE, is a former professional Hip-Hop/Rap artist and the CEO and founder of Solvent, a fintech startup focused on financial empowerment for the System Impacted. In 2022, Solvent was selected for Amazon's AWS Impact Accelerator for Black Founders and accepted in Village Capital’s Innovations In Justice Tech Fellowship Program. DIVINE made a unique entrance into the technology industry in 2014. With an 8th-grade education and a decade of incarceration, he broke into Silicon Valley venture capital after reaching out to famed venture capitalist and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz via Twitter and asking Horowitz to mentor him. Over the past nine years, DIVINE has become a financial technology founder, worked within corporate and the nonprofit Criminal Justice Reform space, and is a CJR advocate and activist. As a System Impacted individual, DIVINE's personal life story and entrepreneurial journey of redemption has been featured in major media outlets such as Forbes, TechCrunch, Black Enterprise, Entrepreneur, and Inc.
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