Bill Lisecky

Bill Lisecky is a media and entertainment investment banker who spent much of his career as Managing Director and Head of Media & Entertainment Investment Banking at CIBC World Markets, a role he also held at Oppenheimer & Co. His work centered on advising media, entertainment, and technology companies on M&A, capital raising, and strategic transactions, primarily out of New York.

In January 2013, Lisecky helped launch CEA Capital Advisors and was named its Chief Executive Officer. The firm was established under the umbrella of The CEA Group — the advisory platform founded in 1973 by J. Patrick "Rick" Michaels, Jr. as a U.S. cable-TV brokerage that grew into a global media/telecom investment bank. CEA Capital Advisors was created to pursue advisory and merchant-banking opportunities, meaning both traditional deal advisory and select principal/co-investment activity alongside clients and portfolio companies.

His co-founders on the venture included Bruce Raben (a veteran of Drexel Burnham Lambert, Jefferies, and CIBC World Markets, named Vice Chairman) and Rick Michaels (Chairman/CEO of the CEA Group). At launch, the firm stated that its founding partners had collectively completed roughly 900 transactions across 60 countries with aggregate deal value in excess of $115 billion — spanning debt and equity placements, sell-side and cross-border M&A, and special-committee and restructuring advisory work.

Note on classification: the stub describes Lisecky as an "Angel Investor" focused on "Seed Round" deals. Public sources instead document him primarily as a senior media/entertainment investment banker and the CEO of an advisory/merchant-banking firm. Any personal seed-stage angel investing could not be independently verified from public sources.

• Sector-driven: Concentrated on TMT, marketing services, content, internet, consumer, energy, and finance — reflecting his career in media & entertainment banking.
• Advisory + merchant banking: CEA Capital Advisors was framed at launch as combining advisory/consulting work with selective investment ("future portfolio companies"), rather than a pure fund writing seed checks.
• Relationship- and senior-attention model: The CEA platform markets itself on senior-level attention to every engagement and deep industry relationships ("spotting winning opportunities").
• Check size / target company profile: No specific, verifiable check size or defined seed-stage target-company criteria for Lisecky personally could be found in public sources.