Mike Ryan

Co-Founder and CEO

Panelist

Bullet Point Network

Mike Ryan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bullet Point Network. An active private investor, entrepreneur, and board member, Mike has almost 30 years of investment, capital markets, and management experience.

In addition to founding and overseeing BPN, Mike is also the Board Chair of the Alpha Partners Technology Merger Corp and has been the CIO of MDR Capital, his family office, since 2009. Before founding Bullet Point Network, Mike served as Head of Public Equity and Absolute Return at the Harvard endowment, Head of Global Securities (overseeing equities, fixed income, currencies & commodities) at Credit Suisse, and Partner and Head of Global Equity Products at Goldman Sachs, where he spent the first 18 years of his career.

Mike has served as a director, committee chair, and board chair on numerous corporate and non-profit boards. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in economics and was an Academic All-American in basketball.

1:35 PM - 2:10 PM

Friday March 31, 2023

How the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will Impact Venture Debt Moving Forward

  • Strategies SVB used to dominate the VC ecosystem for venture loans
  • Sizing up the competitive landscape of non-bank lenders aiming to fill the void
  • How venture debt investments will change in the wake of SVB’s failure
  • Discussion of the logical buyers of SVB’s venture loan portfolio
  • Analysis of why the current banking crisis will likely drive down private valuations