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Lionel Kraft
Chief Investment Officer

Lionel Kraft has been a wealth manager and financial architect for over eighteen years.

Lee began his career at First Interstate Bank emphasizing in bank and trust services. He later expanded his experience with Paine Webber, Inc. and First Security Van Kasper, where he was involved with asset management, product design, and distribution. Lionel has been involved in leadership and founding of many firms in addition to Titus Consulting and Altius Capital Markets, including co-founding a McDonald Investments office specializing in risk reduction, capital preservation, debt facilities, and investment banking services, and he also co-founded Capital Confidence Advisors, LLC for expanded estate and philanthropic planning expertise.

Officing in Salt Lake City and New York, Lionel has been involved in successful capital raises ranging from $1,000,000 to $1 Billion. His hand-on experience on a national and international scale has involved project finance, product structuring, and deployment for hedge funds, structured products, private equity, managed futures, real estate investment trusts, tenants in common (TICs), oil and gas partnerships, mutual funds, unit investment trusts, asset allocation platforms, and various other private placements.

Mr. Kraft serves on for-profit and not-for-profit boards, including Altius Capital Markets, LLC, Titus Consulting, LLC, Yun Capital Asset Management, Young Life-Utah, Big Canyon Ranch, Hungry for Life USA, and the Helios Hope Foundation. He also consults or is on the advisory board of many other large non-profit organizations, advising on charitable cash flow, burn rate analysis, alternative investments, investment policy statements, and overall donor relations.