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Pete MacInnis

Founder and CEO of eLEND Solutions™

Pete MacInnis is the Founder and CEO of eLEND Solutions™ (formerly DealerCentric Solutions), a FinTech company that has served thousands of dealerships since 2003. Under his leadership, the company has grown into a premier provider of credit, identity verification, and finance pre-desking technologies. Its vendor-neutral, API-based middleware platform is designed to enable true end-to-end connected retailing for the retail automotive industry.

With more than 40 years of experience in automotive finance and technology, Pete is widely recognized as an industry innovator and forward-thinking leader. His ability to anticipate digital trends has helped shape how dealerships approach financing and the connected retail process.

Earlier in his career, Pete co-founded Onyx Acceptance Corporation in 1993, which was later acquired by Capital One in 2005. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at WFS Financial, where he held various management positions and played a key role in growing the company from $100 million in assets to over $4 billion serviced.

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When Activity Gets Mistaken for Opportunity

The BDC board is full.Appointments are stacked.The showroom feels busy.Salespeople are running customers.Managers are penciling deals.The store is moving. Then month-end arrives. And somehow the numbers don’t reflect how the month felt. The activity...

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5 Credit Frictions: What You Can Control

Dealership credit friction rarely shows up as one obvious breakdown. It adds up minutes at a time. Sales feels the wait for a lender response. F&I sees the incomplete application or missing stip. Another delay may not become obvious until the customer...