Ralph L. Leung

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Chief Operating Officer & Chief Commercial Officer @ Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY) | 4x CFO for PE/VC companies | ex-Morgan Stanley tech, fintech, M&A investment banker | Growth tech investor | Board Member @ Pagaya
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About Ralph L. Leung

Right-brained finance exec. Team builder. Business partner. Numerical storyteller. Former investment banker > CFO > public company $1Bn+ P&L operator. Proud dad of two boys and a baby girl. Currently serving as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Commercial Office at leading B2B AI fintech, Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY). Accountable for Pagaya’s $1Bn+ P&L, end-to-end commercial efforts and operations across our personal loans, auto, and point-of-sale verticals. Previously 4x strategic CFO for venture capital/private equity-backed companies with 25 years of progressive leadership experience across strategic finance/FP&A, financial operations, equity/debt capital raising, structured products capital markets, investment banking, M&A and corporate strategy. Back-to-back winner of OnCon Icon Awards for “CFO of the Year” in 2022 and 2023 and Top 10 Finance Team in 2023. Recognized as Top 25 CFOs of 2024 in San Francisco Bay Area by TOPCFOs. Breadth and depth of experience spans serving as CFO for late growth-stage VC-backed tech companies driving revenue growth and healthy unit economics, to CFO of large PE-backed fintech undergoing large digital transformation program, and to senior deal maker advising on multi-billion dollar transformative M&A and IPOs for large cap businesses globally. Past life as a tech, fintech and M&A senior investment banker at Morgan Stanley, working closely with multinational CEOs/CFOs to scale revenue, drive profitability, and/or craft story and positioning in advance of an IPO or a strategic exit.Personally led over a dozen IPO processes end-to-end (as lead-left bookrunner), another two dozen private fundraises from Series B through pre-IPO, and successfully raised $65+ billion of equity and debt capital (including as both operating CFO and as investment banker). Led Fivestars (backed by Lightspeed, DCM, Menlo and HarbourVest) as deal-making CFO through a competitive multi-offer process and successful exit to global payments leader SumUp for $317 million in 2021. Also led three Morgan Stanley-owned subsidiary businesses through successful exits/sales as negotiating principal and advised on 50+ strategic M&A transactions and exits for $90+ billion of value as investment banker.Broad industry experience across enterprise/retail/SMB technology (internet, e-commerce, SaaS, marketplaces, networks, EV), fintech (digital lending and payments), and financial services (exchanges, broker dealers, banks, asset managers).

Ralph L. Leung's Current Company Details
Pagaya

Pagaya

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Chief Operating Officer & Chief Commercial Officer @ Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY) | 4x CFO for PE/VC companies | ex-Morgan Stanley tech, fintech, M&A investment banker | Growth tech investor | Board Member
Ralph L. Leung Work Experience Details
  • Pagaya
    Chief Operating Officer And Chief Commercial Officer
    Pagaya 2024 - Present
    New York, Us
    Pagaya (NASDAQ: PGY), headquartered in New York, is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more everyday people nationwide as we reshape the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and an AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides consumer credit for our enterprise lending partners, their customers, and asset investors/funding partners. Our proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into our network of 31 lending partners and 120+ asset investors. Since inception, Papaya’s network has received and evaluated $2Tn+ consumer credit applications and has funded $25Bn+ across 60+ ABS transactions since 2018. #1 personal loans ABS issuer in U.S.$1Bn+ P&L owner. Overseeing Pagaya’s end-to-end commercial efforts and operations across our personal loans, auto, and point-of-sale verticals. Objective to optimize capital and operating efficiency to drive profitable and sustainable growth, margins and cash flows. Leading a ~150 person organization across the value chain including:> client revenue and economics strategy> AI research, modeling and underwriting> credit strategy/operations and portfolio management> capital markets (public ABS, private capital and investor relations) Driving product innovation and building/expanding Pagaya’s capital partners network to further strengthen and expand the Company’s funding capabilities, including establishing a robust private funding model to complement our leading public ABS capabilities.
  • Fog Ventures
    Investor And Limited Partner
    Fog Ventures 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    FOG Ventures was created to invest and support innovative founders that are helping create toolbox 2.0 for the modern day operator. We’re backed by the world's top COOs & CFOs at tech’s most prominent startups. We do not just invest in what we believe in — as active operators, we’re investing in products we actually love and use.
  • Operator Stack Fund
    Investor And Limited Partner
    Operator Stack Fund 2021 - Present
    Early-stage technology fund focused on enterprise applications (FinTech, B2B SaaS and Process Automation).
  • Drata
    Investor
    Drata 2022 - Present
    San Diego, Ca, Us
    Backed by ICONIC Growth, GGV Capital, Alkeon, Salesforce Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Cowboy Ventures, Drata is a prominent security and compliance automation platform.
  • Blockdaemon
    Investor
    Blockdaemon 2022 - Present
    Remote First, Us
    Backed by Sapphire, Tiger Global, SoftBank VF2, Boldstart, Citi Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Matrix Capital and Galaxy Digital, Blockdaemon is the leading institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure company for node management and staking.
  • Pave
    Investor
    Pave 2022 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Backed by Index Ventures, a16z, Bessemer Venture Partners and Craft Ventures, Pave is a real-time compensation platform that helps companies effectively plan, communicate, and benchmark compensation.
  • Northone
    Investor
    Northone 2022 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
    Backed by Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Tencent, NorthOne is a leading SMB-focused neobank that provides digital banking services for over 320k small businesses.
  • Superplastic®
    Investor
    Superplastic® 2022 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, Us
    Backed by Google Ventures, Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, and Galaxy Digital, Superplastic is the leader in luxury art toys, music, fashion, and Web3, with countless collaborations and experiences positioned at the intersection of digital and physical realms including Gucci and Fortnite.
  • Infinicept
    Investor
    Infinicept 2022 - Present
    Denver, Co, Us
    Backed by SVB Capital, Piper Sandler and Mastercard, Infinicept is a leading provider of embedded payment solutions and helps software companies expand into PayFacs.
  • Catalyst Software
    Investor
    Catalyst Software 2022 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
    Backed by Accel and Spark Capital, Catalyst is the world's most intuitive Customer Success Platform (CSP).
  • Vareto
    Investor
    Vareto 2021 - Present
    Mountain View, Ca, Us
    Backed by Menlo Ventures and GV, Vareto is a strategic finance platform built for enterprise and growth-stage companies to help automate and streamline routine work so FP&A teams can focus on driving the business forward
  • Tropic
    Investor
    Tropic 2021 - Present
    Remote, Us
    Backed by Insight Partners and Canaan, Tropic is a tech-enabled procurement service that helps companies of all sizes—from startups to Fortune 500s—buy software, manage contracts, and guarantee savings.
  • Achieve
    Chief Financial Officer
    Achieve 2021 - Jul 2024
    Achieve is one of the largest at-scale, growing and profitable consumer fintechs in the U.S. We offer innovative tech-enabled solutions including the country's leading debt resolution service, home equity loans, personal debt consolidation loans, and financial education tools to the largest demographic in the U.S. - middle class Americans. HQ in San Mateo, CA (+ hubs in Arizona and Texas) with ~2,600 employees.Achieve has served 1.5MM+ members, resolved $18Bn+ of consumer debt and originated $11Bn+ of personal and home loans. Oversaw all aspects of Achieve’s finance and capital markets functions. Leading 100+ team members across strategic finance, capital markets, accounting, treasury, FP&A, comp/benefits, tax, facilities, investor relations, and procurement.Led the Company on a path that drove profitable growth (50%+ YoY growth each year over multiple years) and surpass $1Bn revenue milestone. Raised $375MM of corporate capital from leading investors and global asset managers. Served as a key exec sponsor to help drive the Company’s multi-year digital transformation program to deliver a multi-product consumer-centric platform, new tech and data innovations, and a new memorable and trusted brand. Led the corporate brand function and ~100+ cross functional team members to drive execution and delivery of our rebrand transformation initiative - to deliver new digital customer experiences, to change how customers interact with us, and to change how the world sees us. Our new brand, "Achieve" (fka Freedom Financial Network), was successfully launched in September 2022.Member of the following operating and/or steering committees:- Compensation Committee- Capital Planning Committee- Credit Risk CommitteeAchieve is minority backed by leading private equity investors Stone Point Capital, Cercano Capital, and Portage.
  • Achieve
    Chief Investment Officer - Freedom Financial Asset Management / Freedom Credit Consumer Fund
    Achieve 2023 - Jun 2024
    Freedom Financial Asset Management (FFAM), a wholly-owned Achieve company, is the investment advisor and managing member to the Freedom Credit Consumer Fund (FCCF), a ~$1Bn AUM award-winning structured consumer credit fund with institutional LPs. Through FCCF and its ACHV ABS Trust and ACHM Trust, FFAM has successfully securitized 22 ABS transactions since 2018 for ~$6Bn of unsecured consumer loans and HELOCS originated by partner banks on the Achieve Personal Loans and Achieve Home Loans platforms.Member of FFAM's Investment Policy Committee (as fiduciary for our $1Bn AUM fund)
  • Sumup
    Strategic Advisor, Fivestars
    Sumup 2021 - 2022
    London, Gb
  • Sumup
    Chief Financial Officer, Fivestars
    Sumup 2021 - 2021
    London, Gb
    SumUp is a leading global financial technology company driven by the purpose of levelling the playing field for small businesses. Founded in 2012, SumUp is the financial partner for more than 4 million small merchants in over 35 markets worldwide, helping them start, run and grow their businesses.Valued at $8.6Bn at its most recent equity round in Dec 2023, Sumup has raised over $2.3Bn of capital (equity/debt) from leading investors including Bain Capital, BlackRock, Sixth Street, btov Partners, Centerbridge, Crestline, Fin Capital, and Sentinel Dome Partners.
  • Fivestars
    Chief Financial Officer (Acquired By Sumup)
    Fivestars 2019 - 2021
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Fivestars, with HQ in San Francisco, is one of the largest two-sided consumer merchant networks in the U.S., with 65MM+ consumers discovering and driving $3Bn+ in sales to 14,000+ small businesses annually. Our CRM network + integrated payments solution helps local SMBs acquire new customers, drive loyalty, process payments, and increase sales. Led Company through a competitive process (multiple offers) and successful strategic exit to SumUp (closed 2021), a global payments leader, including leading all due diligence and LOI and merger agreement negotiations, driving deal strategy and process dynamics, and managing all third party partners (i.e., bankers, lawyers, auditors, lenders, etc.) and all key internal/external strategic and tactical matters and communications. Built Strategic Finance and FP&A functions (i.e., core analysis/reporting, capital raising, M&A, equity investor/debt lender relations), rebuilt Accounting and FinOps functions (i.e., technical accounting, revenue recognition, AR/AP, tax, treasury, payroll, benefits, day-to-day accounting operations) and implemented + integrated new finance tech stack. Also oversaw all other corporate G&A functions, incl. Supply Chain, Public Relations, Procurement, IT and Facilities Management, and Corporate Legal. Fivestars raised over $115MM from notable VC investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, DCM Ventures, Menlo Ventures, HarbourVest, and Salt Partners.
  • Jyve Corporation
    Chief Financial Officer
    Jyve Corporation 2018 - 2019
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Jyve, with HQ in San Francisco, is a tech-enabled labor marketplace and software solution that helps large brands and retailers source, hire, and manage a scalable temp in-store labor force. Clients include national brands such as Frito Lay, Pepsi, Meijer, Red Bull and Modelez. Jyve raised over $60MM from notable VC investors including SignalFire, Ridge Ventures (previously IDG Ventures), Crosscut Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates.
  • Lucid Motors
    Strategic Advisor To Founder And Former Ceo
    Lucid Motors 2017 - 2018
    Newark, California, Us
  • Lucid Motors
    Member, Board Of Directors And Investor
    Lucid Motors 2016 - 2017
    Newark, California, Us
    Lucid Motors (NDAQ: LCID) is a luxury mobility company that is reimagining what a car can be. The company's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable transportation by creating the most captivating electric vehicles, centered around the human experience.
  • Leeco Us
    Svp, Finance & Corporate Development
    Leeco Us 2016 - 2017
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    LeEco, with U.S. HQ in Santa Clara, CA, is a streaming video, consumer smart devices, film production and cloud computing company. Served as CFO North America and a key senior executive and business partner that helped lead the strategic build-out and growth of LeEco’s U.S. operations as it scaled from 25 pre-launch to 400+ employees, raised $140MM+ of institutional investor capital, and scaled mix of subscription and hardware revenue, including developing new key channels from DTC e-commerce to wholesale big box retail distribution at Target, Best Buy, and Walmart.LeEco (Chinese parent) has raised over $2.5Bn from strategic investors include Tencent, JD.com, Sunac China Holdings, Lenovo and TCL.
  • Morgan Stanley
    Senior Executive Director, Investment Banking (Technology & Fintech)
    Morgan Stanley 2014 - 2016
    New York, Ny, Us
    Served as a senior banker and deal maker on the premier tech investment banking franchise across Asia Pacific. Also co-led the top fintech franchise in the region. Advised on numerous marquee transactions (mostly IPOs) from the region, including Alibaba Group's (NYSE: BABA) historic $25Bn IPO in 2014. Sourced, developed and managed CEO, CFO and Board relationships of large cap tech and fintech companies and strategically advised them on M&A and capital raises (IPOs and private fund raises). Technology sector expertise include: Internet, e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech (i.e., P2P lending/funding, payments, personal financial and asset management), retail tech, connected mobility/EV technologies, and SaaS.
  • Morgan Stanley
    Executive Director, Head Of Corporate M&A/Investments And Firmwide Corporate Strategy, Asia-Pacific
    Morgan Stanley 2012 - 2014
    New York, Ny, Us
    Relocated from New York to Hong Kong on international assignment and reported to CEO, Asia-Pacific. Built and led a new corporate M&A, investments and strategy team (for Morgan Stanley balance sheet assets and portfolio companies) that oversaw entire Asia-Pacific region and served as the senior executive responsible for successful end-to-end evaluation and execution of corporate M&A and investments, restructurings, joint-ventures and other strategic initiatives.
  • Morgan Stanley
    Vice President, Global Corporate M&A And Firmwide Corporate Strategy
    Morgan Stanley 2010 - 2012
    New York, Ny, Us
    Selected to joined a small, tactical team that reported to Morgan Stanley's Operating Committee to help strategically navigate the Firm through the post-financial crisis environment and new regulations. Served as the global lead principal for evaluating and executing end-to-end global corporate M&A, investments, and strategic initiatives that aligned with the Bank's new strategic roadmap. As well as divest and restructure Morgan Stanley balance sheet assets and portfolio companies that no longer fit the operating plan.
  • Morgan Stanley
    Vice President, Investment Banking (Fintech & Financial Institutions)
    Morgan Stanley 2007 - 2010
    New York, Ny, Us
    Advised c-suite executives of large cap global companies on transformative strategic financial transactions (mostly M&A and IPOs). Financial services sector expertise in fintech (i.e., exchanges, broker-dealers, trading platforms, trading technology, data analytics), asset management, and diversified financial services.
  • Citi
    Associate, Investment Banking (Fintech & Financial Institutions)
    Citi 2005 - 2007
    New York, New York, Us
  • Accenture
    Consultant, Management Consulting (Communications & High Technology)
    Accenture 2003 - 2004
    Dublin 2, Ie
  • Accenture
    Analyst, Management Consulting (Communications & High Technology)
    Accenture 2001 - 2003
    Dublin 2, Ie
  • Hsbc
    Account/Portfolio Manager (Global Graduate Programme)
    Hsbc 1999 - 2001
    London, Gb

Ralph L. Leung Skills

Mergers And Acquisitions Corporate Finance Investment Banking Financial Modeling Corporate Development Capital Markets Investments Strategy Equities Valuation Mergers Ipo Lbo Divestitures Restructuring Private Placements Principal M&a Venture Capital Financial Analysis Finance Strategic Planning Business Strategy Start Ups Forecasting Accounting Cash Management Entrepreneurship Business Development Due Diligence Private Equity Management Consulting Management Leadership Principal Investments Debt And Equity Financing

Ralph L. Leung Education Details

  • Cornell Johnson Graduate School Of Management
    Cornell Johnson Graduate School Of Management
    Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
  • Ubc Sauder School Of Business
    Ubc Sauder School Of Business
    Accounting And Finance

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