Bruce Bent II

Director in New York

Bruce Bent II

Director in New York

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Bruce Bent ll is an experienced entrepreneur credited with creating some of the most innovative short-term asset management, cash and cash-related solutions for the broker-dealer, bank, qualified plan, and retail markets. His vision and entrepreneurial drive have been the catalyst for some of the most influential and relevant products in the technological development of cash sweep and expanded FDIC-insured programs. Holding over 60 privately held patents, Bent’s inventions have helped transform the FDIC-Insured cash management landscape into a more than $1 trillion industry today.

He is also a proven manager and C.E.O. who managed the spectacular growth of The Reserve—a money market mutual fund and FDIC cash management business—over a 17-year period. Bent was directly responsible for the orderly liquidation and sale of some of the firm’s subsidiaries and affiliates following the financial crisis of 2008.

A Vice Chairman and President of leading financial services and technologies company Double Rock Corporation, Bent serves as a senior executive to each of Double Rock’s six wholly-owned and subsidiary companies including Access Control Advantage LLC, an innovator in the retirement market, and Island Intellectual Property LLC which engages in patent licensing in the financial services industry. Both firms have become widely recognized as innovators in their respective markets.

Prior to the financial crisis of 2008, Bent was President of The Reserve, which was one of the largest privately held money-market institutions in the world and offered the second-largest money market fund in the world. Headquartered in New York, NY, The Reserve employed over 300 people including sales professionals nationwide. Under Bent’s guidance product lines and markets of distribution were greatly expanded and diversified—the organization’s assets under management in all cash products grew from $4 billion to over $130 billion over a 17-year period. Annualized revenue and EBITDA reached $155 million and $90 million respectively.

Bent was responsible for overseeing the orderly winding down of The Reserve money market mutual fund products following the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in September of 2008. The product line was voluntarily closed by its management with holders in the Reserve Primary Fund receiving 99 cents on the dollar for their original investment, and 100 cents on the dollar for all other money funds.

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  • Education
    • Northeastern University