Joe Kaiser

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Mr. Joe Kaiser serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Mercato Partners. He serves as Board Member at Summersalt. Mr. Kaiser serves as a Board Member at Paytient, Attain, Kalderos, Cylinder, & Beam Benefits. He served as a Board Member at Venafi.& Ephesoft. As a principal, he supports entrepreneurs by leveraging 15 years of financial, operational, and strategic experience. Immediately before joining Mercato, he served as a director of capital markets at Vivint Solar, where he raised more than $1 billion in project financing and led several successful corporate development initiatives. Vivint Solar achieved a successful IPO in 2014 at a valuation of approximately $1.6 billion. Before joining Vivint Solar, he worked at The Blackstone Group, where he advised investors, activists, and corporate clients; completed mergers and acquisitions, and structured finance transactions, including Blackstone's acquisition of Vivint Solar and its sister company, Vivint, Inc. Before joining Blackstone, he had a variety of operating and entrepreneurial experiences, including launching and building several technology companies as well as turning around a manufacturing business. He began his career as an investment banking analyst at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., where he supported the completion of $16 billion in financing and corporate advisory assignments. Growing up in a small town, he inherited his entrepreneurial spirit from his parents, who owned and operated a local retail business. He received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S.B.A. in accounting from Saint Louis University.