Chris Larsen
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Chris Larsen is CEO and Co-founder of Prosper, America's largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Prosper is a continuation of Larsen's commitment to leveraging the Internet to make consumer lending markets more efficient, transparent, and trustworthy.
Prior to Prosper, Larsen co-founded and served as Chairman and CEO of E-Loan. Under his leadership, E-Loan was heralded as one of America's most trusted consumer brands. During his tenure, Larsen pioneered the open access to credit scores movement by making E-Loan the first company to show consumers their FICO scores. Mr. Larsen also played a pivotal role in the passage of the strongest consumer financial privacy protection law in the nation and was hailed by Congresswoman Jackie Speier as being, "critical to the success of the bill."
Mr. Larsen serves at the Board and Advisory levels at numerous companies and organizations including: Progresso Financial, ACCION International's Center for Financial Inclusion, Mott Foundation underbanked financial services group, CreditKarma, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Qifang, and The Silicon Valley Community Foundation's anti-payday lending committee. He is also a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).
Mr. Larsen holds an M.B.A. degree from Stanford University and a B.S. degree from San Francisco State University, where he was named the 2004 Alumnus of the Year.
