Dave Feller

FOUNDER AND CEO MOGO FINANCE TECHNOLOGY INC.

Dave Feller owes a debt to his years spent in debt. He earned a BA in economics and French from the University of Western Ontario in 1991, racking up $10,000 in credit-card bills along the way. The painful decade that Feller spent digging himself out inspired him to disrupt Canada's lending industry and give loan consumers a better experience.

Feller became a pub owner after graduating, then a day trader for five years before searching for another venture to start. “I realized I didn't want to sit in front of the computer for the rest of my life, by myself,” he explains. He craved human interaction and wanted to create a lasting impact with his next business. Feller launched Mogo Finance Technology in 2003 as a short-term lender operating out of retail stores. It's now a multiplatform provider of personal loans, mortgages, prepaid credit cards and free credit-score monitoring. Mogo has more than 400,000 members and 265 employees.