Richard Bongo

Richard has over 30 years of finance experience while working at many major Wall Street firms. He most recently was a Managing Director at BNP Paribas, one of Europe’s largest banks, and has also worked at such firms as Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and Bank of America. Richard’s experience spans several different disciplines in finance including structuring, trading, and sales at the institutional level, where he helped to usher in several cutting edges financial investment products such as Collateralized Mortgage Obligations and Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities, and Collateralized Loan Obligations. Richard began his career at Coopers & Lybrand (Pricewaterhouse Coopers) where he received his CPA. He holds degrees in both Computer Information Systems and Accounting from Kings College.