New CTO at Breakout Capital is Former CTO of Capital One Labs

Firoze Lafeer, the former Capital One Head of Tech Fellows Program and CTO, Capital One Labs, is now the CTO of Breakout Capital, a Breakout representative confirmed. Lafeer was with Capital One for five years, most recently running the company’s experimental product & technology incubator and accelerator.

Breakout Capital is a fintech small business lender based in Mclean, VA where Lafeer will lead technology, including scaling their tech platform.

Last month, Breakout hired Robert Fleischmann as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Tom McCammon as Senior Vice President, Business Operations. Fleischmann was previously Director of Strategic Partnerships at RapidAdvance. McCammon was previously the Director of Portfolio Management and Credit Operations at OnDeck.