James Irwin

Chief Executive Officer at Resurrection Financial

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Innovative thinker, tactical problem-solver, serial entrepreneur, and adept project manager with over 25 years’ experience: startups, finance, and operations. Built and created stakeholder value in regulated, underserved, and opportunistic industry niches. Demonstrated C-suite track record in financial, healthcare, manufacturing, and cannabis verticals. M.B.A. Finance, B.S. Economics, and Project Management Certificate Program (“PMCP”). DEMONSTRATED SKILLS & KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS APPLY STRATEGY, TACTICS, AND EXECUTION FOR STARTUPS WITHOUT ROADMAPS: Leapt into CA cannabis industry upon 2016 legalization. Raised $15mm, pioneered cannabis activities in Calexico (Imperial County). Obtained an unprecedented 10 State licenses leapfrogging municipal license approvals, substantially shortening path to revenue, and further negotiated tax rate reduction from 5% to 1%. APPLY DEEP STRUCTURED FINANCE, CAPITAL RAISING, FINANCIAL MODELING, AND LEGAL DOCUMENTATION SKILLSETS: Solely originated, structured, negotiated, and documented over $300mm of equity, subordinated debt, senior revolving, securitized, and SBIC capital for my start-ups. Optimized capital structure delivering lowest possible cost-of-capital while achieving highest overall stakeholder ROI. OPERATIONS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Traditional lenders ignored lower middle market healthcare providers. Conceived, built, and financed a fully integrated lower middle market non-correlated, diversified asset-based healthcare lending platform yielding an unlevered 27% portfolio return. SALES & MARKETING: Designed private lending platform product launch: sourced over $1B of transactions in first two weeks of launch; maintained $200mm average pipeline; personally originated 40% of deal flow; customized Salesforce 3 times under budget. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION, AND EXECUTION: Company’s $100mm securitization facility was terminated when our senior lender withdrew from the market. Wrote 250-page PPM in eight weeks to bring in capital and avoid winddown. Raised and deployed $5mm of bridge/sub-debt into loans. With track record, raised $25mm of equity and $40mm of senior revolving debt. Retained team. Across operating platforms including private credit, cannabis operations, manufacturing, healthcare, and tennis facilities, have attracted and built highly functioning, diverse teams of complementary professionals.