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Jonathan Wainberg joins Dr. Andy Roark to discuss how lending and insurance will play a role in pet owners affording veterinary care in the coming years. The discussion covers current trends in pet owner spending on wellness, best practices for communicating cost of care, and where the lending and pet insurance markets may be going in the coming years. This episode is made possible ad-free by CareCredit! LINKS: Language that Works Infographic: https://www.carecredit.com/sites/pc/pdf/speak-pet-owner-healthier-pets.pdf CareCredit: https://www.carecredit.com/
ABOUT OUR GUEST: Jonathan Wainberg General Manager, Senior Vice President, Pet Jonathan Wainberg brings over 15 years of financial services expertise, and a record of commercial ingenuity, market expansion and energetic leadership driving revenue growth to his role as CareCredit’s General Manager, Senior Vice President, Pet. In this newly established vertical, Jonathan will lead CareCredit’s expansion of the veterinarian credit business, pet insurance and additional market adjacencies. Prior to this, Jonathan served as SVP, General Manager GAP. He joined Synchrony following a 15-year tenure with GE Capital, where he was the Senior Managing Director, Global Sales for Industrial Finance in London. He was a key member of the senior leadership team reorganized and streamlined GE Capital. Jonathan developed the strategy and led the efforts that allowed GE to provide financing support to global customers in new markets, surpassing sales targets by more than 30%. With on-the-ground roles in the US, Europe and Asia, he’s managed teams around the world and delivered complex strategies in more than 50 countries. Earlier, Jonathan joined GE Capital in Corporate Finance in New York, ultimately becoming Managing Director, responsible for the Eastern US, Canada and private equity firms, in 2012. As Managing Director, Jonathan originated, structured and negotiated leveraged loans and highly structured financings for leveraged buyouts, re-financings, expansions and restructurings of middle market and large cap retail companies. He was a top individual sales contributor from 2007-2010. Jonathan has an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA in History with a concentration in Marketing from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He began his career in the executive training program at Macy’s in New York, where he also had various merchant/management roles. Jonathan is a native of Canada, with a dual US-Canada citizenship. He has traveled to over 85 counties, enjoys entertaining, wine and playing with his energetic 2-year-old son. While based in Costa Mesa, Jonathan currently resides in Bal Harbour, Florida with his wife and son, Jonathan will relocate to Southern California soon.
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