Jeanine Percival Wright
Jeanine Percival Wright is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for ZestFinance, Inc. ZestFinance applies its unique credit-decisioning technology — based on data science and machine learning — to help lenders effectively predict credit risk so they can provide lower cost credit to people. The company also uses its technology to provide convenient, online loans to consumers through its Basix and ZestCash products.
Before ZestFinance, Ms. Wright was the General Counsel of Media Temple, a rapidly growing tech company in Culver City, California. As General Counsel, she built a legal department from scratch, oversaw all of Media Temple’s legal issues and led the team that successfully sold Media Temple to GoDaddy at the end of 2013.
In private practice, Ms. Wright was an attorney with the Entertainment & Media group at Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., primarily practicing in the areas of entertainment, employment, new media, intellectual property and commercial litigation.
Ms. Wright earned her J.D., order of the coif, from USC in 2006. While in law school, she was a member of the Southern California Law Review, and received both the Eleanor Klein Merit and USC Merit Scholar Awards for her scholarship and commitment to social justice.