Prosper's Ron Suber Invests with Unison Home Ownership Investors

"There are many critical factors I consider before investing in a company: The team members, their market position, ability to build solutions, competitive advantages and avenues of growth," said Ron Suber, president of Prosper Marketplace. "I am excited to be a Unison shareholder and I look forward to advising them as they combine all of the above. It's invigorating to work with the true innovators and clear market leaders in this new and very large category." "We welcome Ron Suber to the Unison family and we are very excited about the capabilities he adds to our team," said Jim Riccitelli, co-CEO of Unison. "Ron's vision and leadership in the financial technology world are very well known and he will play an important role as Unison continues to lead the home ownership investment category." Unison was founded in 2005 when Chairman and Co-CEO Thomas Sponholtz set out to build a large scale platform that efficiently connects institutional investors who want exposure to U.S. residential real estate and homebuyers who need capital to purchase a home, or homeowners seeking liquidity from their home without borrowing. With the platform running, Unison has secured significant funding from institutional investors to fund home ownership investments. "Because we sit in the middle, between consumers and institutional investors, Unison is in a unique position to engage and understand the challenges on both sides of the market," said Thomas Sponholtz, chairman and co-CEO of Unison. The company is now offering its home ownership investments in 13 states and has plans to expand its reach further in 2017. Through partnerships with a number of large mortgage originators, Unison is making the dream of home ownership a reality for more millennials and first time buyers. Suber joins a talented bench at Unison, including advisors John Martinez and Tad Lowrey. Martinez has been a Unison advisor since 2006 and has decades of experience in the management of high-performance financial management firms and the development of complex financial products. He spent 12 years as a senior executive at Barclays Global Investors and CEO of the Global Index Group. Martinez currently serves on the Board of Directors of iShares Inc. (BlackRock). Lowrey is the current chairman of the California Bankers Association and San Francisco Federal Home Loan Bank and has held leadership positions as chairman, chief executive officer and chief financial officer for several publicly held financial institutions over the last four decades. He has led several banks as CEO, three resulting in successful sales to larger entities, after driving growth and value organically through acquisitions, and in one case a successful IPO. Source: PRNewswire