Jake Mendel — CEO

**If you’d like to connect over LinkedIn and we haven’t met in-person before, please include a brief message of why you’re reaching out and how I can help!** Jake Mendel is the Head of Strategic Partnerships @ Lead, a modern sponsor-banking platform building financial services primitives to power fintech and digital asset companies. Lead is a state-chartered, non-member bank, acquired in 2022 by the executives behind Square's de-novo bank and financial services products. Lead is live across lending, card-issuing, FBO/virtual accounts, and money-movement, and today provides the underlying infrastructure for some of the largest and most beloved financial services companies globally. Prior to joining the Lead, Jake launched and led SVB's Startup Banking Crypto Practice, a specialized team covering venture backed clients in the broader web3 space. He also led the initiative to standup a national early-stage fintech team, ran the Relationship Management team covering all pre-Series A companies in NYC, and built founder-focused products as part of SVB's R&D team. Before SVB, he was an operator in early-stage companies across the biotech, retail, and enterprise software sectors.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong focus on strategic partnerships and startup banking.

Location: New York City, New York, United States

Experience: 12 yrs 5 mos