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Our story

We started Loan Direct because loan paperwork shouldn't feel like a trap.

Loan Direct was founded by a small team of underwriters who were tired of watching borrowers get buried in fine print. We built a private lending company around one idea: show the math, explain the decision, and move fast enough that a loan can actually solve the problem it's meant for.

Loan Direct team in a meeting

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You'll see your real rate before you ever hand over a document, not after underwriting has you invested.

Underwritten by people

A loan officer reads every application. No black-box score decides your outcome alone.

Plain-language terms

Our agreements are written to be read once and understood, not decoded by a lawyer.

Team members

The people behind Loan Direct

Dana Okoye

John L Fischer

CEO

Priya Anand

Christina Matson

Lender

Marcus Ibe

Alan H Tenny

Loan Officer

Priya Anand

Decorah Williams

Lender

Priya Anand

Peter Sirico

Executive Lender

Priya Anand

Sharon Davis

Lender

Priya Anand

Jeffery Bullock

Senior Executive Lender

Our vision

A team that treats every application like a person, not a file number.

We're building Loan Direct around a simple belief: lending works best when the people underwriting it actually talk to each other, and to you. Every application that comes in gets read by our team together before a decision goes out — not routed through a black box. As we grow, that's the one thing we don't want to lose: a small team that still knows the borrower behind every file, and works as one unit to get people a fair answer, fast.

The Loan Direct team celebrating together
Dana Okoye
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I've read thousands of applications. Behind every one is somebody having a normal, complicated life — I never want us to forget that.

John L Fischer

Co-founder & Head of Underwriting