Chip Mahan
Chip Mahan has built his career revolutionizing the banking industry. He founded and currently serves as CEO and Chairman of Live Oak Bancshares, headquartered in Wilmington, NC. Its commercial banking subsidiary, Live Oak Bank, specializes in providing lending and deposit services to small businesses nationwide and is the nation’s leading SBA lender.
Chip is also a managing partner and co-founder of Canapi Ventures, a series of funds focused on providing venture capital to new and emerging financial technology companies. He currently serves on several fintech and financial services boards including Apiture; cloud-based cyber security firm DefenseStorm; and the American Bankers Association. He is also a co-founder of nCino, a cloud-based banking software built on the Salesforce platform; Finxact, the cloud-native core-as-a-service platform founded in part by Mahan and other industry pioneers; and Payrailz, a digital payment company.