Nat Hoopes

Executive Director, Marketplace Lending Association

Nathaniel Hoopes is the Executive Director of the Marketplace Lending Association (MLA), now representing 36 leading companies in the digital lending ecosystem. Hoopes helped launch the MLA with 3 founding members after serving as Executive Director at the Financial Services Forum in Washington D.C., where he worked on policy issues affecting the nation's largest financial firms. He has spent 14 years working at the intersection of financial services and public policy, and played a key policy role on Capitol Hill in the wake of the financial crisis, including in the development and bipartisan negotiation of major amendments to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the JOBS Act, and most recently CARES.