Alisa Rusanoff

Head of Credit and Technology at Crescendo Asset Management

Speaker

Alisa Rusanoff is a Head of Credit and Technology at Crescendo ACS where she runs a trade finance strategy focusing on Supply Chain finance, Asset Backed Lending, Factoring, Embedded Finance and other structured debt solutions for its clients.

Alisa started her career a decade ago in investment banking at Martel Capital, working on M&A and capital raising initiatives for a diverse list of mid-market clients. Later in her career, Alisa focused on Structured Debt, Consumer Finance and Trade Finance working with several clients on credit management, business development, capital introductions and structuring. She co-founded Newbridge Global, a trade finance boutique supporting domestic and international SME’s. Later she was the first employee at Marco Capital, helping to build a fintech platform providing working capital for Latin American exporters by heading the credit department and leading several underwriting product projects.

Alisa speaks on private debt, macro, trade finance, fintech and embedded finance and has been featured on panels at NYU, Bloomberg, Informa Connect, the New School Venture Lab, Antler VC, GC4Women Certificate Program, Global Trade Review (“GTR”), ITFA, Money 2.0 Conference, etc. She holds multiple awards in the industry: Award in Underwriting by Secured Finance Network; top 25 women by Opus Connect; Leadership Award in Finance by Money 2.0 Conference; ‘Women in Fintech Powerlist 2022’ by the Innovate Finance and top women in Trade, Treasury and Payments 2024 by TFG. Alisa is a contributor to the textbook ‘Cases in Financial Management: Financial Analysis for Corporate Financial Management’.