Ornella spent five years as a small business loan underwriter, helping deploy over $50M in capital nationwide. That work surfaced the problem BizGuider is built to solve: many of the businesses she underwrote simply weren't ready to access the loans and capital they were applying for. She brings 8+ years of financial services and wealth management experience and is currently pursuing her MBA at Emory Goizueta, concentrating in Entrepreneurship and Social Impact. Her goals for the accelerator are to reach proof of concept with BizGuider's first pilot cohort and sharpen the go-to-market strategy for scale.