Kathryn Petralia
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Kathryn Petralia is an American entrepreneur who is the co-founder and COO of Kabbage.[1]
In November 2017, Forbes said that she was the 98th most powerful woman in the world.[2] In December 2017, she was listed as 1 of 42 women a list of successful women in technology in TechCrunch.[3]
Kathryn Petralia was born on August 17, 1970.[4] At nine, she was given a TRS-80 computer by her parents and she developed an interest in technology.[5] She was an English major[5] and earned a B.A. degree in English literature from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.[6][7]
Career
Startups
Beginning in the early 1990s,[8] she began working at companies focused on "technology, payments and e-commerce."[9] She became involved in "alternative lending" in the late 1990s.[8] She also launched a west coast commerce startup in the mid-1990s.[5] Early on she was involved with US Web.[7] She was director of strategy for Visionary Systems.[8] Early on, she was a vice president and co-founder of WorthKnowing.com,[8] which was sold to CompuCredit and TransUnion.[6] Afterwards, she spent seven years in corporate development with CompuCredit,[6] As a corporate development executive with CompuCredit Corporation (now Atlanticus),[7][8][5] she was in charge of directing efforts regarding "entering new markets" and developing products.[5]
She was the vice president of strategy for Revolution Money[8][5][6] in St. Petersburg, Florida.[6][7]
Kabbage
In 2008,[10][8] she co-founded Kabbage with Marc Gorlin and Rob Frohwein.[9] The business began in May 2011.[10] In 2015, the Kabbage platform was extended to large banks including Santander.[10] She is Kabbage's head of operations and has been its chief operating officer.[6]