Irving Levin

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Mr. Irving Levin is a Co-Founder and serves as a Trustee at The Renaissance Foundation. 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. He 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 several 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. He is the Executive Chairman of Genesis. A veteran of retail financial services, He founded Renaissance Holdings 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. He previously consulted for Arthur D. Little and Company and held several management positions with Visa International. He holds several board member and advisory positions with entrepreneurial companies and nonprofit organizations. He has a B.A. and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Genesis Financial Solutions.