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Brennan Plaetzer

Startup Investor & Advisor | Web3 Expert | Fractional CFO | Board Member | Driving Innovation in Digital Assets & Secondaries

New York City Metropolitan Area

Skills

Blockchain
Private Equity
Financial Modeling
Investments
Alternative Investments
Venture Capital
Valuation
Due Diligence
Financial Analysis
Finance
Asset Management
Portfolio Management
Corporate Finance
Business Development
Capital Markets
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Planning
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Investment Banking
Financial Markets

Education

Work Experience

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2020

    As a lifelong learner with multifaceted expertise spanning traditional private equity, established tech ventures, and emerging digital assets, I evaluate investments and advise founders across diverse ecosystems shaping the global digital economy. My adaptability bridging legacy finance, decentralized protocols, AI, biotech and more allows me to spot high-upside, undervalued opportunities missed by narrowly-focused investors. With in-depth understanding accrued through self-driven study of sophisticated structuring and quantitative modeling techniques combined with hands-on technology experience, I provide invaluable guidance helping ambitious entrepreneurs build, fund and scale boundary-pushing companies and blockchain platforms to solve real-world problems. I welcome conversations on how we can work together fulfilling this immense potential whether through impact-driven investments, enterprising new partnerships, or collaborating on the frontier tech innovations that will transform lives.

BAYANA

2023

  • Advisor

    2023

    As an accomplished Advisor to BAYANA, the pioneering premium marketplace bridging independent creators with consumers to forge tomorrow's leading brands, my role encompasses steering the financial strategy and modeling pivotal to our success. With a robust foundation of nearly 15 years in alternative asset investing, my journey spans a comprehensive spectrum: from secondary, primary, and co-investment ventures in private equity and venture capital, to the dynamic arenas of digital assets.

  • CFO

    2024 - 2024

    Blockchain Laboratories launches web3 startups that are using tokenization to create a better future.

  • Vice President - Private Equity

    2016 - 2020

    I was one of the most senior investment professionals focused on making private equity secondaries, private equity co-investments and private equity primary investments in a fund called the CPG Carlyle (a registered private-equity fund), accredited investor offering. Open-ended fund structure. At the time of my departure, The CPG Carlyle Commitments Fund was the second largest private equity tender offer fund in the US (As of 2023- it is the fifth largest private equity tender offer fund).

  • Senior Associate - Private Equity

    2015 - 2016

2010 - 2015

  • Senior Associate

    2010 - 2015

    Built firm's first impact secondaries model. At the time of my departure, I was focused on: private market secondaries with measurable impact. North Sky Capital launched the first impact private equity fund of funds in 2005, followed by several additional funds covering primaries, secondaries, infrastructure, co-investments and/or special situations. TRANSACTION TYPES: Secondary LP Purchases, Fund Restructurings, Annex Funds and Secondary Directs ASSET TYPES: Buyout, Growth Equity, Venture Capital and Infrastructure. GEOGRAPHIES: North America, Western Europe and Asia. INDUSTRIES: Education, Environment Energy Management and Storage, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Waste-to-Value and Waste Reduction.

  • Analyst

    2010 - 2010

  • Summer Analyst

    2009 - 2009

    Investment banking summer analyst focused on valuation, M&A and turnaround.

2008 - 2008

  • Summer Analyst

    2008 - 2008