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Dec. 17, 2014

John J. Arens

General counsel and director of operations of Funding Circle USA Inc. San Francisco

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SAN FRANCISCO - John Arens' decade-long capital markets career was one of the many casualties of the 2008 recession.

"I found myself having to reinvent myself," said Arens, who co-managed the mortgage securitizaties unit at Redwood Trust Inc., a real estate investment firm, at the time.

Luckily, Arens had reinvented himself several times before.

He had started out as a self-proclaimed "ski bum" in Colorado after graduating from th... (continued)

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