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Truett Dwyer
Truett Dwyer is co-founder and co-CEO of Clerq, a New York account-to-account payments platform built for high-ticket transactions in industries like automotive, powersports, and equipment where 3% card fees and chargebacks eat margins. A Wharton graduate who spent his early career investing at Citadel, Summit Partners, and Blackstone, he and co-founder Ben Markowitz approached payments from first principles and chose to embed inside merchants' checkout workflows rather than build a consumer app. In October 2025 Clerq raised a $12M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total to $21M, on the back of 6x revenue growth and marquee dealership and marketplace clients.
Lawrence Herman
Lawrence Herman is the Chief Financial Officer and AI Strategy Leader at Cents, the all-in-one operating system for laundromats and dry cleaners. A payments and fintech finance veteran, he has steered the books at Dwolla, Accrete, and Paxful, and logged earlier stretches at Mastercard, American Express, Dataminr, EY, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Harvard-trained in economics, he is known for calm during industry cycles, a preacher's zeal for financial literacy, and a habit of walking into every meeting with three discussion points and three asks.