Ami Kassar, CEO and Founder of MultiFunding, is a nationally renowned small business advocate and leader. He’s committed to ensuring that small business owners have the best possible access to the capital they need to help grow and manage their businesses. Kassar has been featured in renowned publications including the New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Forbes, he writes regular blog posts, and he’s appeared as a guest on Fox Business News.

Ami is the 2013 recipient of the Small Business Influencer Award as well as the 2012 Small Business Advocate Award. Kassar blogs regularly on small business issues and has developed a national reputation for confronting and challenging the largest banks in America for their lending records to small businesses, Inc., Wall Street Journal, and New York Times posts.

He’s assembled research reports that have become a critical component of the national debate about small business lending and from that he developed Banking Grades. Banking Grades is a free tool that helps small business owners discover which banks are lending to small businesses. Banks that receive an A are given the "The Small Business Bank Award."

Ami is author of the newly-released book, The Growth Dilemma: Determining Your Entrepreneurial Type to Find Your Financing Comfort Zone.