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Progressa Adds Fintech Marketing Leader Philipp Postrehovsky to Senior Management Team
[December 06, 2018]

Progressa Adds Fintech Marketing Leader Philipp Postrehovsky to Senior Management Team


Progressa, a Vancouver and Toronto based financial technology company, is pleased to announce that Philipp Postrehovsky has joined the senior management team as Senior Vice President of Marketing.

Mr. Postrehovsky is a product visionary, brand builder and an award-winning marketer who has been involved in the Vancouver tech scene for over 15 years. In 2013 he co-founded RentMoola, which continues to be one of North America's leading fintech companies with the mission to eliminate the rent cheque and modernize rent collection for the enterprise. He is also the founder of Grind For Kids, a program that raised over $1 million for BC Children's Hospital Foundation and sis on the Board of one of BC's top independent schools.



Progressa's CEO Ali Pourdad comments: "I am very pleased that we were able to bring Philipp on to the Progressa senior management team. Over the last 15 years, he has proven to be a thought leader in the fintech space. His entrepreneurial experience adds significant value and will benefit Progressa as we launch our financial technologies for the first time to the market. Additionally, Philipp's passion for marketing, experience with brands, and knowledge of the fintech industry as a whole, will serve him well in his new position, and makes him an ideal leader for our organization moving forward."

Mr. Postrehovsky spent the last 6 years with RentMoola as its Chief Operating Officer. He holds a BA, Communications from Simon Fraser University and has held prior roles with both Mogo Technologies and Wonga Canada as a brand leader. He started his career at Electronic Arts.


In the summer of 2018 Progressa announced a $84 million funding round co-led by Canaccord Genuity and Gravitas Securities and is expected to near $100 million of loan funding before the end of 2018. With offices in Vancouver and Toronto, the Company has over 120 team members and continues to make significant investments in its proprietary credit score that drives all of its enterprise software solutions.

About Progressa
Named by CB Insights to the 2018 Fintech 250, a list of the world's top fintech startups, Progressa is Canada's fastest growing financial technology lender focused on changing the way pay cheque to pay cheque Canadians access and build credit. Since 2013, our mission has been to build a socially responsible consumer finance company that encourages borrowing for the right reasons and that Canadians can be proud of. Our enterprise solutions suite, driven by the 4th Generation Progressa Score™, is built for collection agencies and point of sale finance.

We empower collection agencies to offer proactive solutions and drive healthy recoveries while protecting brand loyalty with industry leading NPS and servicing. For point of sale finance we allow platform partners and other originators to expand their merchant offerings to service non-prime consumers and achieve industry leading approval rates.

Learn more: progressa.io


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