Don Richman

Don Richman is a Partner at Victory Park Capital (VPC). He joined VPC in 2019 and focuses on value creation initiatives and strategic alternatives for VPC’s portfolio companies, firmwide business development, and new product development. Don has spent the last 10 years of his career building and scaling consumer-focused, technology-enabled brands and identifying and executing new revenue opportunities within those businesses. He has full company lifecycle operating experience across various industries, from early-stage, venture-backed start-ups to large, international public companies. Most recently, Don was senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy at OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF), where he managed a $2.3 billion per year origination channel and led the company’s digital strategy. Prior to OMF, he spent four years as chief marketing officer at Avant, Inc., a leading near-prime consumer lender. In less than two years, Don built and managed the team that helped scale the business from $50 million per year in origination volume to over $3.0 billion per year. He also helped incubate the company’s Lending-as-a-Service technology offering (Amount) that powers consumer lending at TD Bank, HSBC, Banco Popular, and Regions Bank. Before Avant, Inc., Don was director of new business development at Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), where he built a variety of new businesses and revenue streams pre-IPO through the company’s public offering. Before Groupon, he was director of business development at Bonobos (acquired by Walmart). Don began his career in investment banking, spending four years providing sell-side M&A advice to middle-market consumer and industrial companies at Robert W. Baird and Mesirow Financial.

Don received a BSc degree in finance and accounting from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).