José A. Quiñonez is an American financial-services innovator and winner of the

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 ind ...

. He founded the San Francisco-based nonprofit Mission Asset Fund in 2007 in order to legitimize informal peer-to-peer lending networks in order to help marginalized groups build credit and serves as its CEO.

Education

In 1994, he received a B.A. from the University of California, Davis and an M.P.A. in 1998 from Princeton University.

References

MacArthur Fellows Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American company founders American chief executives of financial services companies University of California, Davis alumni Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni {{US-CEO-stub