Two operators,
one side of the table.

Scott Gordon is a serial entrepreneur and operator whose career spans software engineering, financial services, and biotech investing. He has spent more than four decades building, financing, and advising companies — from garage-stage startups to a publicly traded financial technology company.

He is the founder of Open Mortgage, LLC, one of the largest independently held retail mortgage lenders in the United States, where he has served as Founder and Culture Evangelist since 2003. He is also the owner of DexterityCE, a national continuing-education provider for real estate and financial-services professionals, and the co-founder and board member of Fundient, LLC, a family of companies providing multi-asset-class commercial lending and funding conduits.

Scott is an active investor and board member across sectors. He currently serves as an investor and board member at Blok and as an investor and advisor to Cellibre, a biotechnology company. He was an early investor and former board member at Open Lending, a company he supported from 2001 through its 2016 IPO and beyond. His earlier angel investments include HelioVolt, where he was the first outside investor, and Vumasco.

His earliest operating roles include co-founding G-Cube, Inc. (operating systems), C.A.R.E. Solutions (real estate software, formed before the consumer web), and Brava Services, a professional employer organization that grew to become a successful San Jose–based PEO before being acquired. He is a former software engineer and project manager at VERITAS Software, and a former lead investor and interim CEO of CreditMinders.com.

Scott's work across these companies reflects a consistent focus: identifying overlooked opportunities, building durable teams, and pairing capital with operating discipline. His professional interests are startup culture, organization and prioritization, and the operational and process improvements that turn early-stage companies into category leaders.

Sal Mirran is a finance executive with more than 35 years of experience across corporate and consumer banking, capital markets, advisory, and strategy. His career has spanned top global institutions — Bank of America, Wachovia, Deutsche Bank Asia, Fannie Mae, First Chicago (a JPMorgan predecessor), and PE-owned lenders — and a track record of building, growing, and leading businesses.

Sal's expertise runs across the entire credit value chain: how financial products and risk are designed, developed, priced, originated, risk-managed, marketed, and fulfilled. He has led the credit process end-to-end, including a Hong Kong–based role where he served institutional and sovereign-wealth counterparties across Asia. He is deeply versed in both primary credit and loan manufacturing, and in the public and private capital markets where those assets are valued, structured, traded, held, and managed.

During the 2008 financial crisis, Sal was Head of Corporate Strategy at Fannie Mae, where he participated directly in regulatory, legal, legislative, and policy work — advising House and Senate committees, members and staff, alongside two U.S. Administrations. That experience gave him an unusually broad view of how housing policy, GSE reform, and capital markets intersect.

Earlier in his career, Sal ran real estate capital markets at Bank of America, led ABCP, warehousing, and asset-based lending at First Union/Wachovia, and began his career in corporate finance and investment banking at First Chicago in Chicago and Houston.

He is the CEO of Fundient, LLC, a multi-asset-class commercial lending platform. Outside Fundient, he manages a family investment portfolio through Meiners Minerals Partners LP, spanning oil and gas royalties and working interests in the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale, ranch and surface holdings in Texas, 1031 corporate and mid-market triple-net real estate, residential development, and diversified financial assets across public and private markets.

Sal has served on a range of board seats including multi-family lenders, CDFIs, and micro-lenders. He has a working command of credit, market, rate, operational, and business risk — and how they compound across an institution.