Spencer Lake

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel

Spencer Lake was appointed Global Head of Capital Financing with effect from 12 August 2013. He is a Partner for Element Ventures. Capital Financing houses the primary products of Global Banking and Markets, such as Debt Capital Markets and Equity Capital Markets. Spencer was previously Co-Head of Global Markets with effect from 1 January 2011. Global Markets housed the bank’s fixed income, commodities, and equity activities across sales, trading, origination, and research.

Spencer joined HSBC in 2006 as Global Head of Debt Capital Markets and Acquisition Finance. He was also jointly responsible for HSBC's government sector.

Prior to joining HSBC, Spencer had a 17-year career with Merrill Lynch in New York, Hong Kong, and London across a number of areas including real estate finance, investment banking, and debt capital markets. During his career at Merrill, Spencer ran Asian debt origination, started and managed European public sector origination, managed European emerging markets asset and liability origination, European financing and risk management and, prior to his departure, ran liability origination in the Pacific Rim (Japan, Asia-Pacific and Australasia). Before Merrill Lynch, Spencer worked for two years at JP Morgan in real estate investment banking.

Spencer holds a BA degree in International Finance and Marketing from Suffolk University, Massachusetts, and an MBA degree from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
Spencer Lake has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jul 22, 2019, when Abroad raised $525K.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Jul 22, 2019 Abroad Seed $525K E-Learning Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Spencer Lake has 1 current jobs including Board Observer at Abroad , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Abroad Board Observer Detail