Bio

Mr. Michael B. Kessler founded GFC in partnership with Landon Capital in 2020 to pursue a flexible investment strategy targeting control and non-control investments in growing companies with less than $5 million of EBITDA for buyouts, acquisition financing, liquidity events, organic growth initiatives and recapitalizations. Mr. Kessler started GFC after spending seven years at The Riverside Company, having joined in 2013 as a Partner and founding member of the Riverside Strategic Capital Fund, a fund targeting non-control structured debt and equity investments in companies with over $5 million of EBITDA. Prior to joining Riverside, Mr. Kessler was a Partner at Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) and a member of the firm’s investment committee. At VSS, Mr. Kessler was responsible for the origination, underwriting, structuring and management of portfolio investments in the VSS Structured Capital and Equity Funds. Prior to joining VSS in 2003, he worked for 17 years as an investment banker at CIBC World Markets, Oppenheimer & Co. (acquired by CIBC in 1997), Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch. Mr. Kessler holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, and a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kessler is currently a member of the board of iMemories LLC and 919 Marketing Company LLC, and has previously been a board member of numerous companies including Bentley Laboratories, LLC, Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc., Select International, Tax Credit Co., SHL, Market Strategies International, and TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications.