Mark Fisler

Mark Fisler is a Partner and Managing Director at Ocean Park, a boutique investment bank that advises clients in the renewable energy, biofuels, and agribusiness sectors on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and restructuring. Over several decades he has built senior leadership experience as an investment banker, corporate financial advisor, business executive, and owner.

The core of his banking career came during an eighteen-year tenure at Piper Jaffray, where he managed the offering of over $10 billion in investment-grade-rated bond offerings, structured debt financings, and securitizations, and led in excess of $500 million in private equity offerings for food, agribusiness, and biofuels companies — including the placement of LP units for an Iowa-based private equity fund.

Beyond banking, Fisler has served as a C-suite executive in agricultural processing and has held numerous board positions across the ag supply chain and biofuels industries, giving him operating experience alongside his advisory work. He is regarded as an industry thought leader who has contributed to national conferences and publications on agribusiness and biofuels topics.

He earned dual Bachelor's degrees — in Finance and in Economics — graduating cum laude from the University of St. Thomas.

• Works at the transaction/advisory level rather than as an equity angel: Ocean Park provides M&A, capital raising, and restructuring services and describes itself as a "Leading Advisor in Renewables."
• Sector concentration in renewable fuels (especially ethanol/biofuels), clean energy, cleantech, and agribusiness/ag-supply-chain companies.
• Focus on established operating companies and assets — production plants, ag retailers, and biofuels producers — needing sell-side M&A, growth or project financing, or balance-sheet restructuring, not early-stage seed capital.
• The firm has completed 60+ engagements (38+ specifically in biofuels), signaling a repeat-player franchise in a narrow vertical.