Ranan Lachman is the founder of the Sharing Economy Forum (www.sharingeconomyforum.org), the leading organization that brings together the top on-demand CEOs, thought leaders and academia to establish standards in the Sharing Economy sector.
Ranan is also the Founder and CEO of Pley.com, a sharing economy toy subscription service that decreases delivers the coolest and newest toys with less clutter and waste.
Prior to Pley, Ranan founded GreenCrest Capital, a financial advisory firm that was acquired by Oppenheimer & Co. (NYSE: OPY). Among the many roles he’s played, Ranan has been a technology investment banker, an associate in a venture capital firm and served as an F-4 fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Ranan obtained his MBA from Fuqua Business School at Duke University and Warwick University and a BA in Computer Science from IOU.