Founder Profile
Mike Cagney
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Mike Cagney?
Mike Cagney is a founder of SoFi Technologies, Inc., which was founded in 2011 with Dan Macklin, James Finnigan and Ian Brady.
- Company founded
- SoFi Technologies, Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Dan Macklin, James Finnigan and Ian Brady
Background
Before Stanford GSB, Cagney worked in trading at Wells Fargo and ran Cabezon Investment Group.
Founding Story
Mike Cagney co-founded SoFi in 2011 while a Sloan Fellow at Stanford and served as CEO until September 2017, when he stepped down amid workplace-culture allegations. He later founded blockchain lender Figure Technologies.