Ron Fisher joined SoftBank in 1995 to oversee its activities outside Asia, including the US. As well as founding venture firm SoftBank Capital, he is a director and president of SoftBank Holdings and on the board of the parent company SoftBank Corporation.
He has worked for more than 30 years with technology and high-growth companies. He was previously chief executive of Phoenix Technologies, a software company for personal computers, from 1990 to 1995, and worked at Interactive Systems Corporation, a software company bought by Eastman Kodak Company in 1988, rising to chief executive from his position as chief operating officer. He has also held senior positions at other companies, such as Visicorp, TRW and ICL.
He is on the boards of Cloud Engines (Pogoplug), Desktone, ETrade Group, LiteScape Technologies, MocoSpace, and Nellymoser. GSI Commerce, where he was a board member, was sold to eBay in 2011 for $2.4bn. He received his MBA from Columbia University and a bachelor of commerce from University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.