About us
We’ve assembled a team of experts from retail auto, data science, and auto finance to create Agora Data: a data driven, subprime auto finance platform for auto dealers.
By combining artificial intelligence with human experience, Agora Data is connecting capital markets to subprime retail auto and empowering dealerships to make the money they’re giving away to their subprime lenders.
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Our mission
Empower any Car Dealer to have the Strength of a Finance Company without any change in the Dealer's Process
Leveraging Technology to Disrupt Auto Finance.™
Our team strives to innovate how data is used in the auto industry. Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning, we have analyzed over $350 billion principal balance of auto loans, giving us one of the largest data sets in the industry. This data set has trained our machine learning models with scalpel-like accuracy.
Our modeling and underwriting guidelines will help you originate better loans with predictable performance, benefiting you and the consumer, so that you both win.
Your success is our success, and we’re dedicated to safely and securely helping you fuel your growth.
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Meet our leadership team.
Our experience includes starting and operating successful subprime auto finance companies, running franchise and independent auto dealer groups, successfully securitizing billions in the capital markets, purchasing billions on the auto loan secondary market, managing private equity companies, managing data science teams, leading risk management teams, managing call centers, founding national trade associations, and much more.
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Steve Burke
Chief Executive Officer
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Chris Hawke
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Legal Officer
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Chad Stilwell
Chief Technology Officer
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Matt Burke
Chief Operating Officer
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Chris Barry
SVP Sales