Irving Levin

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Mr. Irving Levin is the Founder at Fluffco Investments. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Liberty Source and Prolifiq. He serves as Board Member at CrowdSmart. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Trustee at The Renaissance Foundation. Irving Levin is a serial entrepreneur and the Executive Chairman of Genesis Financial Solutions. He divides his time between Genesis, investing in and mentoring small independent companies, and a variety of non-profit activities. Before founding Genesis, he started and led Renaissance Holdings, a credit card business. Through his investment vehicle Fluffco LLC, he is an active angel investor with direct investments in a large number of entrepreneurial companies. He serves as an informal mentor to many CEOs and serves on the Boards of Directors of several private companies. Mr. Levin is active in the non-profit world. He has served on the Providence St. Vincent Hospital's and Portland State University's Foundation Boards, SMART, The Children's Institute and a number of Portland area institutions. He is currently the Chairman of Digital Divide Data, a social enterprise in the IT industry that recruits, trains and hires hundreds of impoverished young people in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya.Mr. Levin is the Executive Chairman of Genesis. A veteran of retail financial services, Mr. Levin founded Renaissance Holdings, Inc., and was the Chairman of the Renaissance and its Orchard Bank subsidiary. He was also the founder of the country's first single-purpose credit card bank, First Consumers National Bank. Mr. Levin previously consulted for Arthur D. Little and Company and held several management positions with Visa International. He holds a number of board member and advisory positions with entrepreneurial companies and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Levin has a B.A. and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He serves as Board Member at Digital Divide Data.