Our Team

Operators behind
the capital.

When you talk to us, you're talking to people who understand what the money is for.

David Sarian

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

MBA, Wharton

David founded Legion on the principle that disciplined capital outperforms aggressive capital every time. He spent the prior eight years in Goldman Sachs' leveraged finance group, structuring middle-market debt facilities. He sets Legion's overall direction and chairs the credit committee on deals above $1M.

Marcus Okonkwo

President & Chief Operating Officer

MBA, Harvard Business School

Marcus leads Legion's day-to-day operations, originations, and partner network across all 50 states. He has spent two decades inside non-bank commercial lending and built one of the first standardized broker-compliance programs in the industry. He sits on the board of two regional small-business advocacy groups.

Priya Venkataraman, CFA

Chief Credit Officer

CFA Charterholder · MBA, Columbia

Priya runs Legion's credit policy and underwriting standards. She has personally underwritten more than $2 billion of commercial financing across MCA, term, and AR-backed structures. Her published work on bank-statement-based underwriting has been cited in trade journals.

Sofia Ramirez-Cruz, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

CPA · MBA, Chicago Booth

Sofia oversees Legion's balance sheet, capital markets relationships, and finance organization. She built and managed warehouse facility programs at two prior fintech lenders, totaling more than $3B in committed capacity.

Rachel Goldberg-Schmidt, JD

General Counsel & Head of Compliance

JD, Harvard Law School · AB, Yale

Rachel runs Legion's legal and compliance function. She advises on state commercial financing disclosure regimes (California SB 1235, New York CFDL, Utah SB 183, Virginia HB 1027, Georgia SB 90, Connecticut SB 1032) and represents Legion in industry-association responses to proposed federal rules including CFPB Section 1071.

James Chen

Chief Technology Officer

MS Computer Science, Stanford

James leads Legion's engineering, data science, and infrastructure organization. He built the bank-statement parsing pipeline that lets Legion underwriters work from raw PDFs in minutes rather than hours, and he architects the credit scoring models that flag high-risk patterns at intake.

Daniel Ferreira

SVP, Sales & Origination

BBA, Babson College

Daniel leads Legion's national origination team and partner network. He has built and managed broker channels for three of the largest fintech commercial lenders, with personal involvement in more than 8,000 closed deals.

Aaliyah Washington, CFA

Vice President, Underwriting

CFA Charterholder · MBA, Wharton

Aaliyah leads Legion's industry-vertical underwriting playbooks, with deep specialization in restaurant, hospitality, and trucking credit. She authored the firm's restaurant-vertical underwriting handbook and trains analysts on bank-statement texture reading.

Hiring

We're always looking for operators.

If you've underwritten a P&L, built and sold something of your own, or run capital markets at a non-bank lender — we'd like to talk. Send a note to admin@legionbusinessloans.com.

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