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Prosper Marketplace Names Parker Barrile Chief Product Officer
Prosper Marketplace, which operates a leading online marketplace for
consumer credit, today announced the appointment of Parker Barrile as
Chief Product Officer. Barrile will be responsible for expanding Prosper
Marketplace's product and user experience teams and managing Prosper
Marketplace's expanding product suite across web and mobile platforms.
"Parker's experience building and scaling product and design for
high-growth organizations, plus his passion for fintech and online
marketplaces makes him an ideal fit for our business," said Aaron
Vermut, chief executive officer at Prosper Marketplace. "He will partner
with our engineering team to help us evolve our product offerings as
more people discover the benefits of borrowing and investing through the
Prosper platform."
Barrile joins Prosper Marketplace from LinkedIn (News - Alert), where he was vice
president of product management and led teams for several of the
company's core monetization products including Talent Solutions, Premium
Subscriptions and the Payments Platform. During his five years at
LinkedIn, Barrile was instrumental in buildin consumer and enterprise
products that today generate more than $1 billion in annual revenue.
"Prosper Marketplace has achieved the kind of success over the past
several years that few companies experience, and I'm really looking
forward to taking their product to the next level for the benefit of the
platform's borrowers and investors," said Barrile.
Prior to LinkedIn, Barrile founded and served as the CEO of Predictify,
a community-based prediction platform where members could make and vote
on predictions regarding current events. He has also held roles at
Google (News - Alert) and Bain & Company.
About Prosper
Prosper Funding LLC ("Prosper"), headquartered in San Francisco, owns a
leading online marketplace for consumer credit. Prosper connects people
who want to borrow money with people who want to invest money. With a
commitment to providing world-class customer service, the convenience of
applying online day or night, and none of the lengthy applications or
wait times associated with traditional avenues, Prosper offers people a
superior way to borrow money at fair rates. More than $4 billion in
personal loans have originated through the Prosper platform, helping
people around the U.S. consolidate credit card debt and pay for
everything from medical procedures to home improvement to special
occasions. Learn more about borrowing and investing through Prosper at www.prosper.com.
Prosper Marketplace, Inc. was founded in 2005, and is the parent company
of Prosper Funding LLC.
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