Ronald James Meraz

Current Employers

Employment History

• 11/2008 → 05/2020
  Ubs Financial Services Inc
  Newport Beach, CA
• 05/2020 → 08/2025
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
  Palo Alto, CA
• 08/2025 → Present
  Citigroup
  Los Angeles, CA

Previous Registrations

• 2020-05-05 → 2025-07-01
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
  Palo Alto, CA
  Pasadena, CA
• 2008-12-04 → 2020-05-12
  Ubs Financial Services Inc.
  Newport Beach, CA
  Irvine, CA
  Redlands, CA
  Indian Wells, CA
  Seal Beach, CA
  Riverside, CA
  Newport Beach, CA
  Los Angeles, CA
  Los Angeles, CA
  El Segundo, CA
  Los Angeles, CA
  Los Angeles, CA
  El Segunda, CA
  Los Angeles, CA
  Pasadena, CA
• 1997-07-08 → 2008-12-09
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
  Short Hills, NJ
  Westfield, NJ
  New York, NY
  New York, NY

Other Businesses

2)HEATEFLEX CORP./405 E. SANTA CLARA ST.ARCADIA, CA 91006/MANUFACTURING CO. OF HIGH PURITY HEAT DEVICES/BOARD MEMBER ATTEND 2 MEETINGS PER YEAR/DIRECTOR.. 4)VEDC / 5121 Van Nuys Blvd, Sherman Oaks,California 91403 / Other/ Banking (Retail, Investment, Merchant) / provide samll bus. loans and micro financing for small business / Member of Board of Directors / / board and committee member / Start Date 3/1/16 Non Profit / 1 hour a month 5)Town Hall Los Angeles / 633 W. 5th St., Suite 1220 Los Angeles,CA 90071 / Other/ Other Presents speakers and events of issues and solutions from a nonpartisaan viewpoint. / Presents speakers and events. / Member of Board of Directors / / board member / Start Date nonprofit corp. 43100 / 1 hour durning lunch a month 10 months of the year. 3/1/16-12/31/17////New Bedford Panoramex Corp.; Not Investment-related; Nature: Manufacturing; Claremont, CA; Started: February 1, 2010; Title: Advisory Board-Director; Duties: Attend Quarterly board meeting; No time is devoted each month during securities trading hours; 1-5 hours are devoted each month outside of securities trading hours.///// 8)Lawrence M Cervantes Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust / Trustee to take effect upon his death. / 1501 Estuary Way Oxnard, Ventura County, CA 93035 / United States / If and when upon his death to execute the instructions of his trust. / Start Date 8/12/2019 I*132759 For profit or not for profit: For-Profit Organization Name of outside business organization: Vista Santa Rosa Opportunity Fund Investment related: N Address of business: Pasadena, California 91105 Nature of business: LLC, Position, title, association: General Partner, Start date of relationship: 2/3/2020 Number of hours devoted: 4 hour(s) Monthly Number of hours devoted during trading hours: 0 Duties: LLC was set up to purchase a 54 acre parcel of dates and land in Opportunity Zone. A recent sale of a outside private investment Heateflex provided us a tax benefit to buy with the LLC. We contract out farm management. I*131442 For profit or not for profit: For-Profit Organization Name of outside business organization: JASS I LLC. Investment related: N Address of business: Pasadena, California 91105 Nature of business: LLC, Position, title, association: Family Held, Start date of relationship: 5/1/1997 Number of hours devoted: 4 hour(s) Quarterly Number of hours devoted during trading hours: 0 Duties: this is a investment vehicle that was set up to make investments in Heateflex and other investments Valley Plumbing LLC. It also is the vehicle we use to hold our family(myself and wife) date farm entity. I*131435 For profit or not for profit: For-Profit Organization Name of outside business organization: Valley Plumbing LLC. Investment related: N Address of business: Bermuda Dunes, California 92203 Nature of business: LLC, Position, title, association: Family Held, Start date of relationship: 2/1/2017 Number of hours devoted: 2 hour(s) Quarterly Number of hours devoted during trading hours: 0 Duties: Plumbing Company. I have no responsibility in any day to day activity. I*72192 For profit or not for profit: For-Profit Organization Name of outside business organization: Vallely Plumbing LLC. Investment related: N Address of business: Bermuda Dunes, California 92203 Nature of business: LLC to hold investment in Plumbing Co.-Coachella, Position, title, association: Director, Partner in LLC. Start date of relationship: 2/5/2017 Number of hours devoted: 4 hour(s) Quarterly Number of hours devoted during trading hours: 0 Duties: New hire BAC. A qtly. saturday director meeting. I*633252 Kennedy's on Monroe Opportunity Fund, LLC 10/22/2021 Purchase commercial p OA name: Coachella Valley Opportunity Fund, LLC, Nature: This LLC was set up to purchase an 80 acre parcel of Dates and Land in an Opportunity Zone. A sale of an outside private investment in 2019 provided us with the tax benefit to buy with the LLC. We contract out our farm management (Investment-re

Exams

• S65 Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination
  1995-06-07
• S63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination
  1992-01-30

Other Names

• Ronnie Meraz
• Ron Meraz
• Ronald James Meraz
• Ronald J Meraz