Ron Suber is an American investor. He has held executive positions at

Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. was a New York-based global investment bank, securities trading and brokerage firm that failed in 2008 as part of the global financial crisis and recession, and was subsequently sold to JPMorgan Chase. The compa ...

, Spectrum Global, Merlin Securities,

Wells Fargo Securities Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United States and intern ...

, and

Prosper Marketplace Prosper Marketplace, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based company in the peer-to-peer lending industry. Prosper Funding LLC, one of its subsidiaries, operates Prosper.com, a website where individuals can either invest in personal loans or r ...

. He is also an investor in sixteen

financial technology Fintech, a portmanteau of "financial technology", refers to firms using new technology to compete with traditional financial methods in the delivery of financial services. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and big data are ...

companies.

Education

Ron Suber holds a BA in economics from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Career

Suber began working at Bear Stearns in 1992, eventually becoming a senior managing director of their San Francisco office and manager of Global Clearing Sales for the Prime Brokerage, Correspondent Clearing and Registered Investment Advisor. In 2006 Suber then joined Spectrum Global as president; the fund held $26 billion under management at that time. Following this, Suber began working at Merlin Securities in 2008, where he was head of global sales. In 2012 he then moved to Wells Fargo, where he served as managing director of Wells Fargo Securities following Wells Fargo's acquisition of Merlin. Suber served as the president of Prosper Marketplace, until taking the position of president emeritus. He first joined the company in 2013 as an investor. At Prosper, he provided an online lending platform for company founders looking for investment. In this role he has been referred to as a "fintech pioneer". As an investor focusing on Fintech, Suber has invested in companies including

DocuSign DocuSign, Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that allows organizations to manage electronic agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, a way to sign electronically on diff ...

and

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, and held investments in sixteen firms as of 2017. Suber is also on the board of and vice chairman of the

Australian Securities Exchange Australian Securities Exchange Ltd or ASX, is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange (sometimes referred to outside of Australia as, or confused within Australia as ...

listed firm,

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, and the advisory boards of

, Juvo, Unison Home Ownership Investors, Money360, and eOriginal. He has also served as a financial commentator for

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, and has spoken at events including the LendIt Conference. In October 2019, Suber joined the board of fintec startup Qwil and in September 2020, he joined the board of directors of Yieldstreet.

References

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