Deepika Shahani – Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Deepika has 25+ years of experience in payments, commercial lending, and operational leadership. Deepika brings a rare combination of industry expertise and fintech vision. Before co-founding DealHub360, she successfully built and led multi-million-dollar leasing portfolios, overseeing credit operations, compliance, and sales strategy for national finance organizations.
At DealHub360, Deepika leads product strategy, market expansion, and partner alliances, bridging deep domain knowledge with technology innovation. She played a key role in shaping the platform’s workflow automation, TURBO-Lease integration, and secure document-upload architecture that now underpins its competitive advantage.
Her leadership focus is on simplifying origination, empowering independent brokers and direct lenders and driving efficiency through digital transformation across the U.S. equipment-finance ecosystem. Deepika is known for her hands-on, execution-driven approach—aligning products, people, and processes to deliver measurable growth and customer success.
Paul Manley – Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Paul is responsible for Technology strategy, product development, and engineering leadership for the DealHub360 PaaS. The current North Star we are driving towards is increased AI capabilities and business–as-usual stability for the day to day user.
Paul has 20+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Management in the Payments and FinTech space. Paul has managed international teams in the Payments industry as an Owner, Leader, Solution Architect, and ACH Division Product Owner. He’s created platforms that have scaled from small user bases to millions of transactions a day in the FinTech space with security in mind for extremely fast processing systems.
Paul Co-Founded DealHub360 to bring a narrow solution to the Brokering space. There are large solutions that need large consultancies to use—that’s not the direction we want to move. We want to have a product that you should be able to pick up and use on day one.
David Sargent – Co-Founder & Staff Programmer
David is a co-founder and the Lead Software Engineer of DealHub360. He is responsible for turning business ideas into software design and works in tandem with Paul in implementing these designs.
He has 19+ years of experience in finance and software development and has worked at Fortune 500 companies, regional banks as well as small startups. He also holds an MBA in finance from the University of South Florida.
His experience included leading a team that created solutions that were used by Girl Scouts of America which were able to ingest and report on approximately 10 million transactions and over $300 million in yearly sales.
He’s worked as a software engineer consultant for CheckCommerce / Nuvei and was instrumental in scaling out ACH processing by moving it from a monolith to a distributed microservice design which increased processing throughput by 3X. He also was successful in helping to grow revenue by expanding business offerings in the gaming space by integrating with Plaid using a hosted payment solution.
At AAA Arizona he was able to automate dashboards that Travel, ERS and the Auto-Repair departments relied upon to make business-critical decisions. This automation replaced 20 hours of weekly manual Excel work that was being done by the financial analysts. This not only reduced costs but resulted in greater visibility for the businesses on an ongoing basis. He also developed a billing system for commercial clients including ADOT and Cox Cable which produced $20,000 a month in average revenue.
At M&T Bank he was able to automate the daily dividend posting process, automate the pricing for mortgage-backed securities from Bloomberg, as well as working with other departments to automate their manual Excel processes.
David Co-founded DealHub360 and brought his strong desire to automate and improve upon efficiencies within business processes to the leasing finance space and has drawn from his vast experiences doing this at prior companies.
Chris DuBois – Co-Founder & Marketing Leader
Christopher DuBois is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of DealHub360, bringing 25+ years of expertise in payments, fintech, and retail. Chris oversees website management, email campaigns, social media posting, and the development of strategic partnerships. He crafts compelling brand narratives, pioneers SaaS-based partnerships, and leads go-to-market strategies and global expansion. The office of the CMO is instrumental in building brand awareness and maintaining consistency across all marketing channels. Previously, Chris delivered results in business development roles driven by technology-focused growth and strategic partnerships, ensuring market leadership and customer success.
Chris is highly experienced in contract negotiations, fostering mutually beneficial agreements with vendors and partners. He collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to align marketing and operational goals. His proactive approach to market challenges helps deliver sustainable growth and long-term business value.