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The profile
Lendio's in-house legal chief, named alongside CEO Brock Blake on the May 2020 FTC/SBA PPP warning letter.
Identity and role
Ethan Hanson is Lendio's SVP, General Counsel. He is one of the two addressees of the May 14, 2020 FTC/SBA warning letter to Lendio.
Biography
The Org lists him as SVP, General Counsel at Lendio (its capture is a stub); LinkedIn (self-reported, not mirrored) lists Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis as his legal education. In July 2022 deBanked quoted Hanson as SVP, General Counsel when Lendio announced SOC 2 compliance .
Pandemic role
On May 14, 2020 the FTC and SBA sent a joint warning letter to Brock Blake, CEO, and Ethan Hanson, SVP, General Counsel at Lendio. The agencies said FTC staff had reviewed advertising and marketing "by, or on behalf of, Lendio," including IT Media Solutions and sba.com, and Merchants Advance Network and manfunding.com. The letter warned that claims suggesting SBA affiliation, approved-lender access, or applicant fees could violate Section 5 of the FTC Act if they were false, omitted material information, or lacked substantiation.
The agencies demanded that Lendio review and monitor marketing across websites, social media, email, telemarketing, and texts, remove deceptive claims, remediate consumer harm, and tell the agencies within 48 hours what support and corrective actions Lendio had.
Legal status / controversies
The warning letter is the only public Lendio-specific enforcement document in the record. It was not a complaint, settlement, consent order, judgment, or admission. No later FTC, SBA, DOJ, CFPB, FDIC, or False Claims Act resolution against Lendio or Hanson has been located in the public record.
Where they are now (2025–2026)
The Org lists Hanson as SVP, General Counsel at Lendio (stub capture); no later role is documented in a source we have. Lendio's current business is described in the Lendio profile.
Sources held in this archive
Original source documents and archived captures
- deBanked, "Lendio Achieves SOC 2 Compliance" Hanson quoted as SVP, General Counsel, July 12, 2022
- FTC/SBA warning letter to Lendio, addressed to Brock Blake and Ethan Hanson May 14, 2020
Sources
- FTC/SBA warning letter to Lendio, addressed to Brock Blake and Ethan Hanson (May 14, 2020): Lendio 5f9f69d0745d (original: ftc.gov · stored capture)
- The Org, Ethan Hanson at Lendio: The Org, Ethan Hanson at Lendio (original: theorg.com · stored capture)
- deBanked, "Lendio Achieves SOC 2 Compliance" (Hanson quoted as SVP, General Counsel, July 12, 2022): deBanked, "Lendio Achieves SOC 2 Compliance" Hanson quoted as SVP, General Counsel, July 12, 2022 (original: debanked.com · stored capture)
- LinkedIn, Ethan Hanson profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanhanson (self-reported profile; LinkedIn pages cannot be mirrored into the archive)