John Le

John N. Le is a serial entrepreneur gone parallel. With the emergence of the dotcom market in the late 90’s, John decided to jump in feet first to start LoanTrader, Inc, the nation’s first internet-based mortgage marketplace. John raised the largest private equity round in southern California for a financial technology company (US$30M) with blue chip investment partners such as Friedman Billings Ramsey, Capital Z (Zurich), Goldman Sachs, LendingTree (IAC), GE Capital, CitiGroup, and New Century Financial. Ultimately, the company was acquired by Metavante (NYSE: MV). John relaxed for a few months afterwards until the start-up bug bit him again and Portellus was born. John grew Portellus from a 5 man operation into a 300 plus employee firm, spread across 3 continents with clients such as Morgan Stanley, Fiserv, Deutsche Bank, Discover, Washington Mutual and Universal Insurance. John has been invited to speak at many industry conferences on special topics ranging from banking and lending to financial technology. Today, John is the managing principal of Mozaik, an incubator based in southern California, where he is actively involved in new projects with game changing potential.