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Yendo's new Chief Product Officer Kevin Bird, left, and CMO NIzar Rana. [Photos: Yendo]
Yendo Names Former Nubank, OnePay Leaders as Chief Product Officer and CMO
by Sandra Engelland | Jun 11, 2026
With decades of experience scaling consumer fintech products to tens of millions of customers, Kevin Bird and Nizar Rana were hired to help Yendo grow its platform and speed its use of AI to streamline lending decisions, lower the cost of services, and pass those savings directly back to customers in better rates and faster access to credit, the company said.
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