Roman Vintfeld

Three areas of work run through the professional life of Roman Vintfeld: sales and marketing in financial services, the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to business operations, and humanitarian response. A New York-based business executive, Roman Vintfeld is also known in parts of his professional record as Roman Vinfield. Financial services is where much of his career has taken place. Roman Vinfield has experience in business and consumer lending, merchant cash advance, payment processing, wealth management, mortgages, credit services, and debt consolidation. When he entered the financial technology sector, he brought a background in digital marketing, lead acquisition, and enterprise sales systems. The common purpose across that work has been building and scaling sales and marketing organizations. His interest in artificial intelligence took practical form inside his own business. Operating a merchant cash advance company, Roman Vinfield adopted Conversica's AI sales assistant technology and lowered his customer acquisition costs by 85 percent. From that result he recognized a problem common to direct lenders and brokerages: ensuring that each lead received consistent and persistent follow-up. He founded AI Assist to extend that approach to the wider financial services market, and Roman Vinfield served as the company's President beginning in 2016. In partnership with Conversica, AI Assist launched the Conversica AI Sales Assistant for financial services. The service targeted alternative finance companies, merchant cash advance lenders and brokers, mortgage lenders and brokers, merchant processors, equipment leasers, debt consolidators, and student loan providers. Its job was to follow up on leads and incomplete funding applications automatically, respond when customers replied, and alert a salesperson when a prospect was ready to go further. Roman Vinfield was a speaker at B2B LeadsCon in New York in August 2017. The same technologies now sit at the center of his supply chain work. Since 2023, Roman Vintfeld has been Chief Executive Officer of BrainChain.AI, a company that applies artificial intelligence and machine learning to supply chain management and logistics. Its stated goals are to reduce supply chain disruption, increase efficiency, and help companies deliver commodities to global brands and governments. The focus on AI and machine learning that shaped his lending and sales career is, in this role, applied to the movement of goods. Beyond the companies he founded or led in technology, Roman Vinfield has held senior revenue and executive roles. In 2020, he joined WeShield, an organization founded by entrepreneurs to provide aid to frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, as Chief Revenue Officer, and he later became Chief Executive Officer. During his time at WeShield, the company was ranked No. 53 on the Inc. 5000 list. Today he is the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Powerus. Outside commerce, Roman Vintfeld has devoted his professional experience to humanitarian causes. He is a co-founder of Worldwide Friends, a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) emergency response organization that provides aid to people affected by international conflicts. With his wife, Danielle Vintfeld, he co-founded Ukraine Friends, a humanitarian mission that operates under the Worldwide Friends 501(c)(3) and brings several organizations together to provide aid and equipment delivery, evacuation services, and ambulance support to the people of Ukraine in response to Russian aggression. The organization states that the Ukraine Friends mission has delivered more than 30,000 individual first aid kits, more than 50,000 wound kits, more than 10,000 children's travel and hygiene kits, 1,200 train kits, more than 60 mobile surgery kits, and 23 ambulances, and has housed more than 10,000 refugees. Its efforts have supported the evacuation of more than 30,000 people since the war began. His business and humanitarian interests met in January 2023, when he took part in a roundtable discussion in Davos, Switzerland, on support for Ukraine during the Russian invasion. WeShield helped lead the session. Roman Vintfeld spoke on the connection between Ukraine's economic recovery and the outcome of the war, and on the global effects of disruption to Ukraine's exports, and he noted the organization's partnership with the mayor of Kyiv and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America to donate medical supplies. Worldwide Friends has also extended its reach to Israel. Its Israel Friends initiative raised $6.4 million for the Israeli people in its first two weeks and provided 240,000 pounds of aid, including more than 10,000 bulletproof kits. Roman Vintfeld shares commentary on these subjects through his X, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Medium profiles, covering AI in advanced manufacturing, automation in logistics, supply chain resilience and application uptime, digital transformation, and leadership topics such as balancing compassion with accountability on a team. Authority Magazine featured him in an interview for its series on creating a culture of courage, which considered how authenticity in the workplace benefits both people and profits. He earned a bachelor's degree in business at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Roman Vintfeld believes anyone can make a difference by becoming involved with something they care about. He identifies and develops team members who work with that mindset and supports them in becoming autonomous as quickly as possible. That philosophy shapes his executive roles and his humanitarian work alike, both of which have centered on helping others and on helping people reach their full professional potential.