Open Lending CEO and leadership

John Flynn is a seasoned entrepreneur and industry veteran with over 30 years of innovative credit union, banking, and financial services experience. He has been privileged to lead, launch or co-found numerous companies. Passionate about innovation, his work and personal ventures have remained committed to advancing the industry forward and provide solutions to real needs. Since co-founding both in 2000, John has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Lending, LLC and Lenders Protection, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC. In his role, John leads the Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Account Management divisions. He also manages the insurance carrier relationships that support the Lenders Protection program. Under his leadership, Open Lending has been named to the Austin Business Journal’s “FAST 50” list five times, recognizing the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas. The company has also been named to the “INC 5000” list of fastest growing private companies nationwide and been named a “Best Place to Work” in Central Texas three times. A sought after expert in financial institution operations and profitability, John co-founded Objective Advisors, Inc., a registered Investment Advisory firm dedicated to providing objective financial management services exclusively to credit unions and banks nationwide. John also currently serves as President of IAS (Insurance Administrative Services, LLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC.In 2015, John co-founded The Finest Federal Credit Union, established to serve the police and law enforcement agencies of New York City. It became the first newly chartered credit union in years. John also co-founded and co-owned CU Mortgage, Inc. and Digital Settlement Services in the Washington, D.C. area.John can be reached directly at [email protected] or by calling 512.892.0400 x226

Charles D. Jehl has been Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Forestar Group Inc. since September 30, 2015. Jehl served as an Executive Vice President of Oil & Gas at Forestar Group Inc.

Kenn Wardle is a Chief Risk Officer at Open Lending.

Matt Roe is a Chief Revenue Officer at Open Lending and is based in Austin, Texas. He has worked as Mgr:Marketing at Open Lending, Product Implementation and Analyst at Open Lending, and Mgr:National Accounts at Open Lending. Matthew attended Texas State University-San Marcos and Texas State University System.

As Chief Technology Officer, Sarah leads the vision for all aspects of technology at Open Lending. Sarah served previously as Open Lending’s Senior Vice President of IT Operations.

Sarah brings with her over 15 years of experience in IT leadership, infrastructure, and systems design with proven expertise in software engineering and business operations. Sarah is the scrum master of the Open Lending team and project management office lead. She is responsible for the company’s software releases and quality, building processes to efficiently streamline company-wide initiatives, and technology and security compliance. Since joining the company in 2016, she has developed processes that have streamlined operations in support of the SOC 2 Type 2 audits, managed test plan development and software releases, created workflows and performed other business analyst duties to support the team’s backlog, and developed a fully-staffed quality assurance department with a new test automation framework. Sarah also created best practices and rebuilt relationships as a LOS technical liaison which has helped streamline implementations with multiple business partners. Sarah is instrumental in technology processes, development operations, generating internal and external analytics for all teams to maximize performance, and new team member development.



Prior to joining Open Lending, Sarah spent 14 years with Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a scrum of scrums master, system software engineer, project manager and program manager. There she program-managed system-level quality assurance teams for enterprise system software and firmware.



Sarah earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University. She is a certified scrum master (CSM) and project management professional (PMP). Outside of work, Sarah enjoys camping and fishing with her family. Sarah resides in Spicewood, TX with her husband and son.

John Flynn is a seasoned entrepreneur and industry veteran with over 30 years of innovative credit union, banking, and financial services experience. He has been privileged to lead, launch or co-found numerous companies. Passionate about innovation, his work and personal ventures have remained committed to advancing the industry forward and provide solutions to real needs. Since co-founding both in 2000, John has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Lending, LLC and Lenders Protection, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC. In his role, John leads the Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Account Management divisions. He also manages the insurance carrier relationships that support the Lenders Protection program. Under his leadership, Open Lending has been named to the Austin Business Journal’s “FAST 50” list five times, recognizing the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas. The company has also been named to the “INC 5000” list of fastest growing private companies nationwide and been named a “Best Place to Work” in Central Texas three times. A sought after expert in financial institution operations and profitability, John co-founded Objective Advisors, Inc., a registered Investment Advisory firm dedicated to providing objective financial management services exclusively to credit unions and banks nationwide. John also currently serves as President of IAS (Insurance Administrative Services, LLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC.In 2015, John co-founded The Finest Federal Credit Union, established to serve the police and law enforcement agencies of New York City. It became the first newly chartered credit union in years. John also co-founded and co-owned CU Mortgage, Inc. and Digital Settlement Services in the Washington, D.C. area.John can be reached directly at [email protected] or by calling 512.892.0400 x226

John Flynn is a seasoned entrepreneur and industry veteran with over 30 years of innovative credit union, banking, and financial services experience. He has been privileged to lead, launch or co-found numerous companies. Passionate about innovation, his work and personal ventures have remained committed to advancing the industry forward and provide solutions to real needs. Since co-founding both in 2000, John has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Lending, LLC and Lenders Protection, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC. In his role, John leads the Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Account Management divisions. He also manages the insurance carrier relationships that support the Lenders Protection program. Under his leadership, Open Lending has been named to the Austin Business Journal’s “FAST 50” list five times, recognizing the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas. The company has also been named to the “INC 5000” list of fastest growing private companies nationwide and been named a “Best Place to Work” in Central Texas three times. A sought after expert in financial institution operations and profitability, John co-founded Objective Advisors, Inc., a registered Investment Advisory firm dedicated to providing objective financial management services exclusively to credit unions and banks nationwide. John also currently serves as President of IAS (Insurance Administrative Services, LLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC.In 2015, John co-founded The Finest Federal Credit Union, established to serve the police and law enforcement agencies of New York City. It became the first newly chartered credit union in years. John also co-founded and co-owned CU Mortgage, Inc. and Digital Settlement Services in the Washington, D.C. area.John can be reached directly at [email protected] or by calling 512.892.0400 x226