Joel Fischer Bio

Joel joined Franklin Partners in 2011 and has 20 years of investment and commercial banking experience. Prior to joining Franklin Partners, Joel was with a Minneapolis-based syndicate lender where he underwrote, serviced and restructured complex commercial loans in hospitality, Native American gaming, senior housing and commercial real estate development. Joel is an insightful and practical dealmaker, with the ability to pull together competing parties to a common purpose. He can also relate to owners seeking a transition, having served on the board and overseeing the sale of his family’s multigenerational business. Joel is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management (MBA).