Dara Albright

Dara Albright is a recognized authority, thought provoker and frequent speaker on topics relating to market structure, private secondary transactions and crowdfinance. Albright has held a distinguished 22 year career in IPO execution, investment banking, corporate communications, financial marketing as well as institutional and retail sales. She is a visionary who continues to introduce rising asset classes and game-changing financial products to the Wall Street community.
Albright was one of the earliest voices covering the JOBS Act and advocating for greater democracy in the equity and credit markets. She founded the NowStreet blog in 2011 which went on to become the preeminent resource for education and insight into the burgeoning industry of global crowdfinance. She produced the first major crowdfunding conference, co-founded LendIt, the largest and most recognized global p2p & online lending conference organization, and helped establish trade & leadership organizations for the emerging industry. Some of the most prominent figures in the financial industry as well as the legislature have participated in her events. Her leading-edge articles that have helped shape the direction of the crowdfinance industry can be found on NowStreet, Equities.com, Seeking Alpha, Investing.com and Business Insider. She has been featured in Forbes, ABA Banking Journal, Thestreet.com, Private Wealth Magazine as well as in a number of leading industry trade publications. Albright continues to help issuers, investors as well as financial service providers across the globe capitalize during this unprecedented period of financial industry disruption and regulatory reform.
Prior firms she worked for include: Unterberg Towbin, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Divine Capital and Citigate Dewe Rogerson. Albright is a proud board member of SparkMarket, the nation’s first bona fide crowdfunding portal allowing unaccredited investors to legally crowdfund via intrastate exemption. She is a graduate of the George Washington University and holds securities industry Series 7, 24, 31 and 63 licenses.