Delaena Kalevor

Based in Irvine, California, Delaena Kalevor is an experienced strategic finance professional currently offering his services as an independent consultant. He primarily works with institutional investors seeking to make equity investments in the financial services and payments space. Previously, Delaena Kalevor served as vice president of strategic initiatives with Synchrony Financial. In this role, he worked with the firm's payment solutions platform, an $18 billion portfolio. He led the pilot launch of SetPay, the company’s unsecured installment loan program, and led a risk-acceptance process. He also worked with the company’s $11 billion credit card portfolio, known as CareCredit, and managed end-to-end implementation of a POS solution.

Previously, Delaena Kalevor worked within the portfolio management and underwriting department of GE Capital Bank in Norwalk, Connecticut, and prior to that as a strategic initiatives manager with CareCredit in Costa Mesa, California. He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Ghana Business School, and an MBA in finance and competitive strategy from the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester. He also belongs to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.