Paul L. Kessler

Mr. Paul L. Kessler is the Executive Chairman at Wizard Brands, Inc. and is a Founder & Senior Managing Director at Bristol Capital Advisors LLC. Paul Kessler has extensive experience with emerging growth companies and is well versed at identifying investments and acquisition opportunities in a variety of industries. He is well-versed at identifying deep value activist opportunities in a variety of industries. He has broad experience in finance, actively sourcing and identifying investment opportunities, and negotiating, structuring and re-structuring investment transactions with emerging growth public companies. His responsibilities include implementation of trading strategies as well directing trading in portfolio securities. He has negotiated and worked on numerous mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, venture capital, private equity, re-structuring and other capital market activities. His experience includes many forms of active investing as well as negotiating transactions involving common stock, debt and/or preferred instruments or combinations thereof, including novel warrant structures. He has actively worked with executives and boards of companies on corporate governance and oversight, strategic repositioning and alignment of interests with shareholders. He has guided and overseen over 650+ investment transactions, whether as lead, co-lead, or syndicate investor. His investments have focused on emerging growth public companies and, to a lesser extent, private companies on the path to becoming public.

He has attended courses at various colleges and universities, including Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program and UCLA's Extension Program. Mr. Kessler has passed the Series 65 Uniform Investment Advisor Examination.