Manuel DeJesus Ron

Manuel D. Ron, MBA JD is an Assistant Professor teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the Mercy University School of Business. Graduate courses have included finance courses (corporate finance, securities analysis, mergers and acquisitions) and quantitative methods courses (statistics and probability). Undergraduate courses have included finance courses (financial management) and law courses (business law). He has also held the following leadership positions: Director of the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program, Director of the Master of Science in Human Resources Management program, and Assistant Dean of Graduate Business. He also was a member of the University committees, Economic & Fiscal Matters Committee, Graduate Curriculum Committee, as well as the School of Business MBA committee. Mr. Ron is an ad hoc advisor to Armed Forces Veteran students.

Mr. Ron is a shareholder of multiple private companies and has a history of international investing, taking operating leadership roles and serving on boards. He has participated in many developing and developed markets private financial and business transactions either as an entrepreneur, principal investor, advisor, or capital arranger. Mr. Ron is the founding investor and Chairman of Afach Technologies Corp, an early stage financial technology company. He is also a founding non-operating minority shareholder of several Invescore Group companies operating in the US, UK and Saudi Arabia. The group provides family, corporate, financial and government organizations the opportunity to allocate capital into high quality, capital protection, specialist funds, companies and projects. 

Mr. Ron was previously a founding shareholder and CEO of Integration Capital for Financial Papers Company, a financial company licensed by the Capital Market Authority in Saudi Arabia. He lived in Riyadh for three years launching the company and was a registered investor with the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Mr. Ron orchestrated an exit with a majority equity interest sale to a Canadian and Pakistani investment group. He has close personal friendships as well as professional relationships with merchant families, industry professionals and officials in Saudi Arabia and other Arabian Gulf countries.

Prior to his founding of and involvement with the Integration Capital platform of companies (US, Saudi Arabia, Oman, with affiliates in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and India) in 2007, Mr. Ron was a Managing Director of Griffin Investment Management, a New York subsidiary of publicly listed UK-based Griffin Securities, where he served as Co-Manager of the Griffin Crossover Fund, making private investments in public and private companies. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of New York-based DC Asset Management where he helped launch the DC Opportunity Fund, a hedge fund investing in the private securities of public US companies.

Mr. Ron has also held various operating and finance positions, including finance director, then CEO of venture capital backed supply-side ecommerce technology company, Actiant, where he raised its first equity and debt rounds from US and Arabian Gulf investors. He subsequently orchestrated a sale of assets to a US and Indian technology group. Previously, Mr. Ron worked as an analyst at Corporate Property Investors, an investment company spun-out of Lazard Frères and as a junior analyst in the Investment Banking division of Citigroup. 

Mr. Ron has a BA in Economics from St. John’s University (New York) where he was a Distinguished Military Graduate. He also earned a JD from the St. John’s University School of Law and an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Mr. Ron is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and in the federal courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is also admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Mr. Ron began his post-college career as an active duty US Army airborne combat engineer officer. He served in the US, South Korea (2nd Infantry Division) and operational areas in Central America, including but not limited to Honduras, as a platoon leader and company executive officer (XVIII Airborne Corps). He was promoted to the rank of Captain while serving as a reserve engineer officer in the 11th Special Forces Group and was selected for promotion to the rank of Major prior to resigning his commission post the Operation Desert Storm period to focus on his civilian career. Mr. Ron has published business articles, has spoken at many business events, and has been interviewed for television and magazines. He has been a subject matter expert reviewer of academic journal articles and a business law textbook.

Informative with respect to his life and career, Mr. Ron’s top three (80%) StrengthFinder characteristics are relator, learner, and strategic, with deliberative and analytical rounding out the top five. His Myers Briggs type is ISTJ. Mr. Ron’s Big Five is low on neuroticism, low on extraversion, high on openness to experience, high on agreeableness, and high on conscientiousness. He can be characterized as a Grantian hypothesized intelligent interactions giver and exhibits the behavioral patterns of the non-scientific method Sigma designation within the traditional societal construct. Mr. Ron is the first generation of his Ecuadorian father’s family and second generation of his mother’s Irish and German family to be born in the US. He was raised in the New York City borough of Queens and resides in northern Westchester County, suburban New York, with his family.