Chris Lude, Chief Executive Officer
Co-founded Ripple Applications in 2004. Founded Denver Concierge in September 1999; sold company in November 2006 for significant 7 figure price. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, served as investment officer in Moscow for AIG-Brunswick, a $300 million private equity fund to invest in Russian companies. Prior to AIG, worked as an enterprise and transaction manager for IMAG, an investment bank based in Vienna. On behalf of IMAG, managed oil and gas investment assignments in Siberia, and served as Managing Director of Timproc, a wood processing enterprise located in Archangelsk, Russia.
Graduated from Manchester College in 1984 with joint computer science and accounting degrees; joined Price Waterhouse in South Bend, Indiana as CPA for three years, before transferring to Cairo to audit PW clients, Exxon, Amoco, and Conoco. Transferred by PW to Budapest in 1991 to manage privatization assignments; promoted to Senior Manager in 1992, before leaving to attend Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School of Business. Upon graduation from Tuck in 1994, accepted a position as an investment banker in Bear Stearn’s NYC emerging markets — working on China investments, and Russian oil and gas assignments. Certified Google Adwords Professional. Managing Adwords accounts since 2004.
Hanna Loberg, Chief Financial Officer
Co-founded Ripple Applications in 2004, and joined Denver Concierge in 2000. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, worked as a Director at Lehman Brothers Technology and Telecom investment banking group in London.
After graduating from the Stockholm School of Economics with a Master’s degree in Finance, worked as a fixed-income fund manager at the Swedish National Pension Fund. Received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business in 1994, and went to work for Merrill Lynch London, managing IPO transactions for a variety of Scandinavian and European Emerging Markets companies. In 1997, helped open the Merrill Lynch Moscow office, organizing the opening party and the Rostelecom NYSE listing . . . just in time to help manage the closing of the office. Certified Google Adwords Professional. Managing Adwords accounts since 2005.