Danielle Pensack is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rightfoot, the leading B2B debt management and payments company. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and founders and executives from companies like Plaid, Venmo, Block, and Marqeta, Rightfoot has been recognized as a top place to work by Will Reed, and a 2021 Rising Star by Forbes’ Cloud 100. Rightfoot is proud to have won the partnership of dozens of clients in the banking and fintech world, including a financial institution with $10T AUM.
Danielle met her co-founder Deirdre Clute in Stanford’s MBA program where together they incubated Rightfoot. The company’s technical co-founder Will Schmitt left Google to complete the founding team after spending the past decade scaling infrastructure.
Prior to Stanford’s MBA program, Danielle spent years leading API Strategy and Digital Transformation for IBM’s banking clients. Leveraging the power of embedded infrastructure as a force for good, she co-founded Rightfoot to drive massive scalable social impact. Danielle is based in San Francisco, CA.