{"id":79382,"date":"2022-03-01T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=79382"},"modified":"2022-02-28T17:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:26:03","slug":"formfree-names-former-ice-finance-executive-patrick-rutherford-as-cfo-to-fuel-its-next-stage-in-company-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/formfree-names-former-ice-finance-executive-patrick-rutherford-as-cfo-to-fuel-its-next-stage-in-company-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"FormFree names former ICE finance executive Patrick Rutherford as CFO to fuel its next stage in company growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATHENS, Ga., March 1, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — FormFree<\/a>\u00ae today announced that it has appointed Patrick Rutherford, former finance executive at Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), as chief financial officer (CFO). In his new role at FormFree, Rutherford will lead the organization\u2019s finance, accounting and compliance functions.<\/p>\n

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PHOTO CAPTION: FormFree taps former ICE finance executive Patrick Rutherford as CFO.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prior to joining FormFree, Rutherford served as a leader within ICE’s global finance function. As a financial leader at the publicly traded Fortune 500 company, Rutherford oversaw multiple aspects of global forecasting, planning and analysis. He was also a key participant in ICE’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities, including its strategic equity raise for the company\u2019s initial venture into digital assets and its more recent entry into the mortgage space.<\/p>\n

Rutherford served as a finance leader at The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) before joining ICE. During this time, he gained a broad set of finance and strategy experiences while progressing professionally, earning formal recognition by the CEO and CFO for his achievements on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n

Rutherford earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in finance from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, and his master\u2019s degree in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled to join FormFree, a company dedicated to revolutionizing how lenders come to understand people\u2019s ability to pay,\u201d said Rutherford. \u201cAs CFO, I will strive to further FormFree\u2019s drive of facilitating a more inclusive credit landscape while supporting lenders\u2019 business goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

FormFree welcomes Rutherford to its executive team following years of financial growth. Notably, by helping mortgage lenders understand people\u2019s ability to pay (ATP\u00ae) with innovative, direct-source data retrieval methods, FormFree saw triple-digit revenue growth between 2017 and 2020, earning it a place on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ rankings.<\/p>\n

“Patrick\u2019s breadth of innovative financial management experience at Fortune 500 companies like ICE and Home Depot made him the perfect choice for helping FormFree reach new heights,\u201d said FormFree Founder and CEO Brent Chandler. \u201cWe look forward to having Patrick at the helm of FormFree\u2019s financial growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

About FormFree\u00ae<\/strong><\/p>\n

FormFree\u00ae is a market-leading fintech company whose revolutionary products AccountChek\u00ae and Passport\u00ae make for a more inclusive credit decisioning landscape by enabling lenders to understand people\u2019s true ability to pay (ATP\u00ae). To date, thousands of U.S. lenders and brokers have ordered millions of FormFree\u2019s patented verification reports representing trillions of dollars in loan verifications. FormFree delights borrowers and lenders with a paperless experience, dramatically reduces origination timelines and offers automated analysis and standardized delivery to lenders and investors using a secure ReissueKey\u00ae.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit: https:\/\/www.formfree.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Follow FormFree on LinkedIn at: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/formfree\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RealFormFree #mortgage #mortgageindustry #fintech #digitalmortgage #peopleinthenews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATHENS, Ga., March 1, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — FormFree® today announced that it has appointed Patrick Rutherford, former finance executive at Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), as chief financial officer (CFO). In his new role at FormFree, Rutherford will lead the organization’s finance, accounting and compliance functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":79381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,12804,14409,1,38,10711,123,317,6,5],"tags":[11492,205,9067],"class_list":["post-79382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mortgage-news","category-ap","category-athens-business","category-business-news","category-finance-news","category-fintech","category-georgia-news","category-career-news","category-software-news","category-technology-news","tag-chief-financial-officer","tag-depthpr","tag-digital-mortgage","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4162,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}