Chief Marbumrung

Managing Director, Investments at Applied Real Intelligence

Chief Marbumrung is Managing Director, Investments and is a member of A.R.I.’s Executive Committee, Investment Committee, and Risk Committee. He has a primary role in leading transaction origination, credit analysis, due diligence, transaction structuring, and loan underwriting. He also has responsibility for building and maintaining profitable, long-term strategic partnerships with A.R.I.’s portfolio companies and sponsors, including venture capital, private equity, bank lenders, and non-bank lenders.

Prior to joining A.R.I., Mr. Marbumrung was a senior banker based in San Francisco covering the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (“TMT”) sectors at BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank with over EUR 2.6 trillion in total assets. In this role, he was responsible for originating and managing U.S. corporate relationships within the TMT segments, where he executed large loan transactions across a variety of high-growth sectors including enterprise software, IT services, hardware, cybersecurity, and telecommunications, among others.

Previously, he was an active deal team member on BNP’s Loan Capital Markets platform in New York. In this role he focused on underwriting, structuring, and executing bilateral and syndicated loan transactions for corporate clients across multiple sectors, including healthcare, media, and telecommunications, to support merger and acquisition financing, spin-off and special dividend financing, and other strategic investments.

Mr. Marbumrung began his career in the financial services industry as a corporate banker in the U.S. Power Utilities & Power Project Finance group at Scotia Bank in New York, where he focused on debt transactions in the electric utility, mining, and natural gas sectors.

Preceding his financial services career, Mr. Marbumrung was an electrical engineer at a privately-owned defense contractor based in New England where he worked with clients including the U.S. Department of Defense and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Boston University’s College of Engineering and an MBA from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Additionally, he has held FINRA Series 79 and 63 licenses.


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