Richard Vague is currently managing partner of Gabriel Investments and the chairman of The Governor’s Woods Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic organization. Previously, he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Energy Plus, and also co-founder and CEO of two consumer banks, First USA and Juniper Financial.

Vague currently serves on the Penn Medicine Board and the corporate board of Heartland Payment Systems along with various other corporate, civic and charitable organization boards. He is also the author of The Next Economic Disaster, a book with a new approach for predicting and preventing financial crises, editor of the blog and email newsletter service Delanceyplace.com and of the website Debt-economics.org.