SpringFour Co-Founder & CEO Rochelle Gorey has been selected as a 2022 LendIt Fintech Woman of the Year Finalist. As LendIt shares, “this award is given to the senior executive who has demonstrated outstanding leadership, integrity, performance, and a commitment to fostering gender diversity both within her company and in the industry at large.”
Katy Jacob
VP of Research & Impact, SpringFour
In 2021, SpringFour was recognized by ChicagoInno as a StartUp to Watch, joining 20 other cutting-edge companies focused on innovation and poised for growth. ChicagoInno said of SpringFour:
Chicago fintech startup SpringFour is a social impact company that improves payment performance and reduces delinquencies by helping banks assist their borrowers during tough financial times. SpringFour sells its service to banks, which facilitates connecting borrowers with on-the-ground, curated and vetted nonprofit and government resources that can help borrowers get back on their feet. In 2018, SpringFour participated in 1871’s BMO Harris fintech accelerator, which introduced the startup to the bank and allowed them to partner. Now, SpringFour also counts Enova, Key Bank and LendUp as clients.
SpringFour is proud to be recognized by ChicagoInno for its work to help combat COVID-19 along with its overall business model and track record in working with banks to further families’ financial health. SpringFour is committed to continue to be a StartUp to Watch, in 2021 and beyond.
Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey
Co-Founder & CEO, SpringFour
We are thrilled to announce that we have been named a Finalist for the Most Promising Partnership Award at the LendIt Fintech Industry Awards, along with BMO Harris Bank for our partnership. The LendIt Fintech conference is the world’s leading event in financial services innovation, and the awards bring together 400 Fintech influencers and innovators to celebrate outstanding achievements. We can’t wait to attend.
We greatly value our partnership with BMO Harris Bank and the work we are doing together to increase financial wellness opportunities Our partnership began in 2017 when we were selected to participate in the BMO Harris/1871 Fintech Partnership Program, were then selected as one of the winners, and ultimately launched an official partnership in August of 2018. Since that time, we continue to make great strides working together to improve the financial lives of BMO Harris customers.
Let us know if you will be at the LendIt conference on April 8th & 9th as we welcome the opportunity to meet with you.
Rochelle Nawrocki Gorey
Co-Founder & CEO, SpringFour Inc.
Each year, the B Lab recognizes Certified B Corporations for their outstanding positive impact. As a part of this community, SpringFour is using business as a force for good.
And in doing so, we have a lot of happy customers.
As One of the Best For the World in the Customer category, we have been recognized as a company that “aims to improve the lives of their customers through the use of their product or service.”
To our team here at SpringFour, this honor means a lot. It’s honors what we strive to do every day at SpringFour—improve people’s lives through connections to important services, tools, and products that can help see them through a financial challenge and help them to better days. And this has been our goal since our company was founded back in 2005.
In order to be recognized in the Best for the World: Customers List for 2018, A Certified B Corporations needs to have a B Impact Assessment score in the top 10 percent of the entire global community. This assessment area measures the impact a company has on its customers by focusing on whether a company sells products or services that promote public benefit and if those products/services are targeted towards assisting underserved populations.
We are proud of our work, our team, and the commitment we have shown since day one to create access and pathways for people to get the help they need and deserve to live a financially healthy life. It’s an honor to have made this list.
We chose to undergo the rigorous process of becoming a Certified B Corporation because we want everyone we do business with to understand that at SpringFour, impact is what drives us each and every day. We want to hold ourselves to a higher degree of accountability and social impact. We believe our Certified B status tells our customers, partners, and other stakeholders that we are more than a financial technology company, that we are committed to our mission of connecting consumers to the local financial resources that they need and deserve.
We are especially pleased to learn that two of our customers, Beneficial State Bank and Sunrise Banks are also joining us on this list for their outstanding work and leadership. We are proud to be in their company.
You can find the complete list of all Certified B Corporations receiving this honor here.
Standing among a room full of women doing great work and supporting each other was inspiring. It was the Women Tech Founders Midwest Women In Tech (MWitT) 2017 Awards night, and we were there because SpringFour’s Co-Founder and CEO, Rochelle Gorey was nominated in the Fintech category (A founder changing the financial services industry through innovation and technology).
The event celebrated Women in Tech, those who have paved the way and bring diversity to an industry that has long had far too few women top players. Each of the nominees in 12 different categories were personally nominated and then selected by a panel of judges. The nominees all met the following criteria:
– An individual that demonstrates excellence in tech leadership
– A champion for other women
– A contributor to the community
– An authentic and innovative leader in the tech ecosystem
The event was an amazing reflection of just how many smart, driven, innovative women there are working in tech in the Midwest. Showing this diversity and wealth of talented local women changes the way we think about the tech field. The awards were created to “equalize the image of power in technology and leadership, while creating an army of role models for the next generation. The role models we want for our daughters and their daughters to see.”
Hearing the stories behind these inspirational women makes all of us dream of the future that our daughters can have. Rochelle shows this in the way she leads, her character and her core beliefs in bringing financial health to everyone, and we are glad she is being recognized for it.
We had a great time getting to meet and chat with other women in the field, hearing inspirational stories, and even getting to meet the Mayor.
The organizers of the event wanted everyone to leave the evening feeling “ignited and inspired to change the world.” We did, and we are.
Carol Lucka and Scott Rodeman from U.S. Bank, and Rochelle Gorey from SpringFour are presented with the BAI Global Innovation Finalist recognition from Debbie Bianucci, CEO of BAI.
We recently returned from the BAI Beacon Conference where SpringFour was a finalist for the BAI Global Innovation Awards. Global. Innovation. Award. Let that sink in. We had to.
As a small and scrappy social impact, Fintech Company based in Chicago, being named a finalist was a huge validation and sense of accomplishment for our team at SpringFour. To see SpringFour on the list of finalists for an Award that celebrates companies from around the world doing great and innovative work in the financial services sector was tremendous.
The fact that we we shared this Award with our customer and partner, U.S. Bank, gave even more validation. Together we were recognized for our work in the Breakthrough Collaboration in Financial Services Category. No small feat.
From the beginning, our mission has been to connect people to resources, programs, and tools that can help people achieve better financial health. We understand that when people have difficulty paying their bills, it’s because there is something happening in their financial lives that makes it impossible for them to do so. This understanding guides everything we do at SpringFour and drives us to work hard and to do what we can to help our customers.
When we started SpringFour, no one was really talking about financial health and certainly no other company was building a business focused on directing consumers to local resources that could help them build a better financial life and catch up on past due bills. Today, with our customers, we are making over 1 million referrals each year and the number is growing. And we are excited to see so many companies having conversations about financial health and thinking about how to bring financial health solutions to their customers and/or employees.
Here’s to financial health and the validation that helping consumers pay their bills and stay on track can be worthy of a Global Innovation Award.
Katie Gottschall Donohue, Vice President, Strategy and Operations
SpringFour, Inc.
Maggie Kaiser joins the SpringFour team as a Client Success Manager. Maggie brings 7 years of experience of working in Corporate Social Responsibility and managing leaders in supply chain management. She has worked with several of the top Fortune 500 companies developing and executing their internal Code of Conduct. Maggie will be taking part in strategic efforts to boost client engagement and support SpringFour’s client deployment efforts. Maggie is bilingual in Spanish and has lived in several countries, including Chile, where she worked in international trade and focused on earthquake relief organizations.
Dr. Collins is a nationally recognized expert in the loss mitigation/foreclosure industry and professor of Consumer Finance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His studies on consumer behavior insights focus on the role of information in consumer decision-making, especially for low-income households. Michael has studied consumers in the financial marketplace for more than a decade and has published many articles on consumer responses to foreclosure, the role of default counseling, and the effects of consumer protection policies.
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