Gerald Risk

VICE CHAIRMAN OF ASURION

Gerald serves as Vice Chairman of Asurion, the world’s largest provider of technology protection services. In addition to his role at Asurion, Gerald is an active investor and mentor of entrepreneurial leaders in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.  Gerald is a Lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Carillon Assisted Living (provider of assisted living services in the Southeast), National Video Monitoring (regional provider of video surveillance services), Sunrun (provider of residential solar services), and QMC Telecom (wireless infrastructure provider in Latin America).

Gerald began his professional career with Goldman, Sachs & Co., working in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and New York.  Gerald holds an MBA from Stanford, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and where he served as a case writer for Jack McDonald, the Stanford Investors Professor of Finance.  He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce with honors from Queen’s University in Canada where he was on the Dean’s List. 

Mr. Risk holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree in commerce with honors from Queen’s University in Canada.  He is on the Board of Trustees at University School of Nashville and serves on the Board of Directors of Copayment Solutions, Carillon Assisted Living, and QMC Telecom International.