When Everett saw the accelerating trend of capital becoming less accessible and more expensive for small businesses, he recruited an experienced team of fellow banking professionals and founded Lendistry, combining the seamless user experience and scalability of a fintech with the low-cost customer acquisition and strong risk management of traditional lending. Since 2015, Lendistry has provided responsible lending to small businesses directly and through partnerships with banks, government agencies, and private corporations.

In 2020, Lendistry began offering recovery grant administration solutions to federal, state and local governments and their local CDFI partners.

A top-ranked SBA 7(a) lender and the only African American-led Small Business Lending Company (SBLC), Lendistry also is certified by the United States Department of Treasury as both a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and a Community Development Entity (CDE); a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco; and a signatory to the Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights. NerdWallet named Lendistry SBLC one of the Best SBA Lenders of 2025.

Everett’s experience in lending includes tenures at national and community banks. He has served as a Board member and an executive for two Minority Deposit Institutions, where he helped guide the banks’ lending teams in executing exponential growth. He has managed credit, operations and sales departments, closed more than $12 billion in transactions, and served on commercial lending, compliance and rate-risk committees, among others. While at Wells Fargo, Everett led teams on both the East Coast and the West Coast, growing both teams’ sales volumes by more than 300%.

He also has significant experience in commercial real estate development, property acquisition and lending, including structured finance transactions like New Markets Tax Credit, Opportunity Zones and secondary market transactions. He is a partner in Baltimore, Maryland-based real estate asset management company, MCB Real Estate, which has a $4 billion portfolio and manages over 20 million square feet of real estate.

Everett is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, an Advisory Board member of The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), and a Board member of Goodwill of Orange County and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. A native of Washington, D.C., Everett and his family reside in Los Angeles.