Ami Kassar, CEO and Founder of MultiFunding, is a nationally renowned small business advocate and leader. He’s committed to ensuring that small business owners have the best possible access to the capital they need to help grow and manage their businesses. Kassar appears in the national press on small business issues and blogs regularly on these topics at www.slingshotcafe.net. He has developed a national reputation for confronting and challenging the largest banks in America for their lending records to small businesses. He’s assembled research reports that have become a critical component of the national debate about small business lending. In addition, Kassar is a regular speaker at universities and small business events across the country on topics including entrepreneurship and access to capital. Kassar earned his MBA from the University of Southern California and graduated with a B.A. in American Studies from Brandeis University.