Lauren McCollom

As Director of Banking as a Service, Lauren McCollom leads Grasshopper’s efforts to establish mutually beneficial partnerships with financial technology and neobank companies by offering a variety of financial tools and solutions for the consumption of the fintech’s clients. During her 17-year commercial banking career, Lauren has worked alongside entrepreneurs to solve complex problems and ultimately help them build great companies. While working at Wells Fargo, and later at Square 1 Bank, she was instrumental in the formation and growth of the Startup Services groups where her skills in working with the investor community along with portfolio companies were leveraged. Lauren graduated from UC Davis and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.