goeasy Ltd. announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved the recommendation of President and CEO David Ingram to implement a senior leadership succession plan. Jason Mullins, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will succeed Mr. Ingram as President and CEO in January 2019. At that time, after having served as the Company's President and CEO for 18 years, Mr. Ingram will move into the role of Executive Chairman.

Effective immediately, Mr. Mullins will begin the leadership transition by assuming the role of President and Chief Operating Officer for the balance of 2018. Mr. Mullins joined goeasy in August 2010 as Vice President of Business Development and has rapidly ascended into progressively senior roles, including his appointment to Senior Vice-President of Operations in 2011 and Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer in 2015. Prior to joining goeasy, Mr. Mullins held management roles at Mogo Financial, where he served as a Vice President of Sales and Operations, Allied International Credit and CIBC.

Don Johnson, the Company's Chairman of 18 years, will move into the role of Chairman Emeritus and will remain a Director on the Board. The Company also announced that Steve Goertz, Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, has elected to leave the Company, to pursue other opportunities, but will continue to provide transition assistance for up to the next six months, while the Company seeks a replacement. Mr. Goertz joined as CFO in 2009 and has been instrumental in overseeing all of goeasy's financial operations, including leading the maturation of the Company's capital structure that culminated in the completion, at the end of 2017.