Craig J. Paul.

Mr. Paul joined Libertas Funding, a $1 billion specialty finance lender, as Controller in 2019 and served as its Chief Financial Officer from 2020 to 2026. Reporting to the CEO, he ran budgeting, forecasting, FP&A, accounting, treasury, tax, compliance, and internal and external audits, secured more than $750 million in new lines of credit with banking partners, led due diligence through a Series A fundraise, and implemented NetSuite as the company’s ERP. Before Libertas, he spent five years as Chief Financial Officer of Sensible Auto Finance, where he cut operating expenses by 15% while growing the loan portfolio from $16 million to $45 million, largely by automating origination and operations. Since July 2026, he has advised founder-led, growth-stage, and private equity-backed companies as an independent CFO adviser on financing, finance transformation, and exit readiness.

Earlier, Mr. Paul spent more than five years at PayPal and eBay, where he was one of six employees selected by eBay’s CFO for its two-year Finance Leadership Development Program, rotating through treasury, tax, and global FP&A. He went on to serve as International Tax Counsel, handling international tax planning for controlled foreign corporations, leading international audits within North America, and advising on tax accounting for M&A. Before that, at GMAC, he led a Sarbanes-Oxley assessment of internal controls and implemented the compliance requirements for an asset-backed commercial paper facility that issued $9 billion in three weeks.

For a decade, Mr. Paul also served as outside strategic adviser to the CEO of Crowdmade, Inc., an e-commerce platform for musicians and independent artists, having incorporated the company and helped launch it. He holds an LLM from University College London, a JD from The Catholic University of America, an MBA from Saint Joseph’s University, and a BA from West Virginia University.