Fintech Leader Brings on Key Financial Expert to Support the Accelerated Growth of the Company’s B2B Payments and Credit Network
Fundbox, the B2B payments and credit network designed to facilitate and accelerate B2B commerce at scale, announced that Marten Abrahamsen has been named as the company’s first Chief Financial Officer. On the heels of the company’s recent Series C $176 million round of funding, Abrahamsen’s addition signals the company’s plans for aggressive growth in 2020.
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Abrahamsen is the newest addition to Fundbox leadership team joining recent executive additions including that of Leslie Olsen as the company’s first CMO and Todd Hamblet as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary.
“I’m incredibly excited to join the world-class team at Fundbox. Fundbox has a massive opportunity to help small business owners unlock the trillions of dollars collectively trapped in receivables,” said Abrahamsen. “I believe Fundbox’s distinctive combination of massive market size, defensible business model, and strong customer value proposition will make it uniquely positioned to succeed.”
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Prior to joining Fundbox, Abrahamsen was a senior member of the investment team at The Chernin Group (TCG), a multi-stage investment firm dedicated to building consumer businesses, founded by media executive Peter Chernin.
Before his role at TCG, Abrahamsen was a senior investment professional at Coatue Management’s private company investment fund where he led growth investments and worked closely with portfolio companies on strategy, financial planning, and fundraising.
Abrahamsen also worked as a private equity technology investor with Vector Capital and started his career as an Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Management, Economics, and Finance from The University of Warwick.
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