Kathryn Petralia is an American entrepreneur, and the co-founder and COO of Kabbage. [1]
In November 2017, she was assessed by Forbes as being the 98th most powerful woman in the world. [2] In December 2017, she was listed in a TechCrunch feature on 42 women succeeding in tech that year. [3]
Kathryn Petralia was born on 17 August 1970. [4] At age nine, she was given a TRS-80 computer by her parents, and developed an interest in technology. [5] She was an English major [5] and earned a B.A. in English literature from Furman University. [6] [7]
Starting in the early 1990s, [8] she began working at companies focused on "technology, payments and e-commerce." [9] She became involved in "alternative lending" in the late 1990s. [8] She also launched a west coast commerce startup in the mid-1990s. [5] Early on she was involved with US Web. [7] She was director of strategy for Visionary Systems. [8] Early on, she was a vice president and co-founder of WorthKnowing.com, [8] which was later sold to CompuCredit and TransUnion. [6] Afterwards, she spent seven years in corporate development with CompuCredit, [6] As a corporate development executive with CompuCredit Corporation (now Atlanticus), [7] [8] [5] she was in charge of "entering new markets" and developing products. [5]
She was afterwards the vice president of strategy for Revolution Money [8] [5] [6] in St. Petersburg, Florida. [6] [7]
In 2008, [10] [8] she co-founded Kabbage along with Marc Gorlin and Rob Frohwein. [9] The business opened for business in May 2011. [10] In 2015, the Kabbage platform was extended to large banks such as Santander. [10] She continues to serve as Kabbage's head of operations and has also served as its chief operating officer. [6]
She and her husband [11] have two children, and live in Atlanta, Georgia. [1]
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