Investor-focused tech lender Kiavi announced the promotion of two seasoned leaders this week.
Tim Lawlor was promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Jonathan Muller was promoted to Senior Vice President, Product and Technology.
“Both leaders were instrumental in Kiavi achieving record growth this year, and their promotions reflect their proven abilities to drive strategic initiatives, implement industry-leading innovations, and meaningfully impact company performance,” company officials said.
Lawlor and Muller will join Kiavi’s Executive Team in their new capacities. As CFO, Lawlor will guide Kiavi’s financial strategy to support its growth goals, including overseeing the company’s finance, accounting, capital markets, servicing, and business operations functions.
Prior to joining Kiavi, Lawlor was a capital markets leader at several technology companies, including CloudKitchens, OpenDoor, and Uber.
Muller will lead Kiavi’s product, design, engineering, and data infrastructure functions. Prior to joining Kiavi in 2019, he held senior product leadership positions at Employ, Via Oncology, and UPMC Enterprises.
“During their tenures at Kiavi, Tim and Jonathan have consistently championed our core values of doing better for customers, creating impact, simplifying and innovating, and winning together with purpose,” Kiavi CEO Arvind Mohan said. “Tim and Jonathan’s expertise and deep understanding of our customers continue to be instrumental in helping us achieve our ambitious growth goals. I look forward to working with Tim and Jonathan in their expanded roles to further marry our technical and capital advantages to help real estate investors quickly and easily unlock the capital they need to scale their businesses.”
Through the third quarter of 2024, Kiavi originated nearly 15,000 loans totaling $4.6 billion, a 44.5% increase over the same period last year. Kiavi is one of the nation's largest private lenders to residential real estate investors (REIs), with more than $22 billion in funded loans.
