Our Team

Joel Feldmann has a lengthy, distinguished career in the financial services industry.  He has a wide range of experiences across debt financing, capital markets, venture capital, board membership, and entrepreneurship. 

He is currently Co-founder and Advisory Director of a Denver-based Search fund.  He is a Retired Managing Director in the debt capital markets group at Wells Fargo Securities, where he was responsible for working with clients in the western U.S. region to originate financing transactions.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Mr. Feldmann was a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he ran the leveraged finance and financial sponsor coverage teams for Europe and Asia.  Prior to BAML, he was a Managing Director in the acquisition finance group at Morgan Stanley.  Earlier in his career, Joel worked at Citicorp in the high yield group.  He also worked at Citicorp Venture Capital and at the former Bankers Trust Company in the acquisition and structured finance group.

Mr. Feldmann currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of 6 private companies, as well as the University of Chicago’s Booth Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Program.

Joel is also an Adjunct Professor in the Daniels College of Business at The University of Denver.

Joel received a B.S. from Miami University (Ohio) and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Booth Graduate School of Business.

Will is the Managing Partner of Red Mountain Capital Partners, an investment firm, and a Senior Advisor to HPS Investment Partners, where he focuses on governance, management assessment and compensation, strategic direction, capital allocation, margin enhancement and exit alternatives for HPS portfolio companies.

Will was previously a Partner and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs where he worked in New York, London, Frankfurt and Los Angeles in the Fixed Income and Investment Banking Divisions.  He was a founder of Goldman’s debt capital markets, asset securitization and European financial institutions businesses, and led its U.S. West and German region investment banking businesses. Prior to joining Goldman in 1981, he was a securities lawyer with Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll.  He received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 1974 and his J.D. from the Cornell Law School in 1978.

Will serves or has served on the boards of eight public companies, including Heidrick & Struggles (professional services), Destination XL (retail), Encore Capital (financial services), Cost Plus (retail), Nature’s Sunshine Products (retail), Yuma Energy (energy), 3i (financial services) and Skandia (financial services) and five private companies, including Estrella Media (media), Acra Lending (financial services), Abcentra (biotech), Davis Petroleum (energy), and Intrinsic LLC (financial services).  He also serves on the board and investment committee of the Equity Alliance, a fund-of-funds that invests in diverse, emerging venture capital fund managers with a focus on people of color and women.

Will also serves on the board of the Aspen Music Festival and School, and previously served on the boards of the Pacific Council on International Policy, Scripps College, the Harvard-Westlake School, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Paley Center for Media and the California Institute of the Arts.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Art Reimers is a social impact investor who advises entrepreneurs working to solve society’s most pressing issues at scale. In this capacity he serves as investor, coach, mentor and advisor to both companies and their leaders. He is an Adjunct Instructor at Miami University.

He has been a Venture Partner with Draper Richards Kaplan and an Executive-in-Residence with the New Profit Foundation, where he assisted both organizations’ work with high potential social entrepreneurs, while also advising a number of startup social ventures. Art also served as special advisor to candidate Mike Johnson’s campaign for Governor of Colorado. Previously, Art was a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative and an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard’s iLab.

After earning an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School, Art began his career with Goldman Sachs, where he was ultimately elected Partner & Managing Director. At Goldman Sachs, Art served as Head of M&A for Europe and Global co-Head of Healthcare before returning to become a growth capital investor in innovative companies in the natural foods and consumer products categories.

Art lives in Colorado with his wife Lindsay and enjoys anything adventuresome, especially with his seven grandchildren. In addition to service on a number of mission-driven boards and advisories, Art is a Trustee of the Nature Conservancy of Colorado.