Wayne Ruden serves as a Managing Partner for Wren Capital. Prior to Wren, Mr. Ruden had a distinguished 20+ year career in U.S. Institutional Equity Sales and Trading at leading investment banks including Merrill Lynch, First Boston, ING, based both in New York and San Francisco. Mr. Ruden has worked exclusively with institutional investors throughout his career, including many of the largest and most notable global money managers, hedge funds and financial institutions in the U.S.

Mr. Ruden has also worked alongside every facet of an investment banks' Equity Sales, Trading, Capital Markets and Private Placement continuum, including primary syndications and secondary sales. In recent years, Mr. Ruden established new West Coast Institutional Sales and Trading platforms for both SunTrust Bank and Mizuho Securities (Mizuho Financial Group). Whilst at Mizuho, Mr. Ruden was additionally part of a North American Capital Introduction team which was responsible for the private placement of substantial Asian institutional capital into an elite roster of U.S. and Global money managers. Mr. Ruden graduated with a BA from the University of Iowa.