Mark Kessler Email & Phone Number

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

FoxDen Capital is a unique group of successful lifelong business operators who want to scale our experience & knowledge to assist businesses to grow well beyond their long-range vision. Our team is comprised of former athletes and successful business leaders who answer to a higher power of faith, ethics, honesty, and a deep desire to win with our teammates and partners. We are very aggressive & aspire to grow our partner companies well above their competitive peer set. Our investment focus is opportunistic at its core, serving the lower to middle market segment. Complex deals and industries that private equity shies away from do not scare us. We believe where there is complexity, there is opportunity. We are flexible around the unique needs of business owners and managers and are very nimble to close. We have sector leaders and deep expertise in software, niche manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, real estate, & logistics. However, due to our opportunistic investment thesis, we invest in companies outside these sectors creating a constant search for industry leaders to join our team. As you can tell, FoxDen is NOT private equity, NOR family office. Unlike private equity, we are not governed by a fund’s investment timeline & hold investment in perpetuity if it makes sense. Unlike most Family Offices, FoxDen has vast resources, expertise, connections, & manpower to operate the companies in which we invest. FoxDen is just different. Instead of private financial investors, we source equity from successful operators & industry leaders specific to our investments. We believe this de-risks each investment and anchors the company in industry domain expertise, making our chances of oversized returns more likely. I’m excited about how we can help owners monetize and grow their businesses into what they always dreamed. I’m looking forward to catching up with each of you to explore ways we can work together.Regards,Mark KesslerPartnerFoxDen Capital

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Mark is a Partner of Palmares Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm providing investment capital to founder and family-owned companies in a flexible, collaborative, and non-control investment structure. Palmares' unique approach provides owners with personal liquidity while allowing them to maintain financial and management control of their enterprise as well as funding for future strategic growth initiatives.We seek to partner with business owners where our capital is utilized to facilitate various business objectives, which include: funding growth initiatives, acquisitions, recapitalizations and share repurchases. We are not “control” investors, but rather look to provide board-level guidance and support, helping owners achieve their business goals.Prior to joining Palmares Capital, Kessler served as Chief Strategy Officer, GM, and member of the Executive and Leadership Teams of PeopleNet & Trimble Transporation. During his tenure, Kessler was placed in charge of of acquisitions, strategic planning, product development, revenue growth, & customer care, leading a small start-up to 85x revenue growth (8500%) in 19 years, earning the #1 ranking of telematics company in the world of transportation as ranked by ABI research. Over his business career, Kessler cultivated highly motivated & ethical teams that closed new revenue opportunities totaling over $2b; while diversifying the company's product portfolio thru acquisitions, partnerships, innovations, and international expansion. These endeavors resulted in closed buy & sell side transactions representing nearly $1 billion in transaction value.Kessler received a B.S. and MBA degree at Auburn University where he served as Captain & Asst Coach of the Auburn University Men's Tennis Team. Kessler resides in Atlanta, is a proud father of three kids, advisor of Buckhead Church, CEO of JH Ranch Atlanta Outback Ministry, and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Bobby Jones Golf Foundation.

Atlanta, Ga

During his tenure, Mr. Kessler served on the Leadership and Executive Team for Trimble Transportation (TRMB: NASDAQ) for nearly a decade and served many diverse roles including VP of Sales, GM, VP of Product Development and Chief Strategy Officer. At Trimble Transportation, Mr. Kessler focused on hiring teams of star performing self starters with character, integrity, dedication, and perseverance. Due to the work of these teams, Trimble Transportation grew 85x (8500%) in 19 years and was named The #1 Telematics company in the world of transportation by ABI research. As Chief Strategy Officer of Trimble Transportation, Mr. Kessler's role was to craft the strategic long range plan of the enterprise and work with all cross functional teams to decide how best to deliver innovation to the marketplace, while diversifying their product portfolio, and disrupting the industries they serve via buy, build, or partner strategies.

Greater Atlanta Area

Kessler joined PeopleNet in 2000 and served PeopleNet as a senior executive in sales, business development, M&A, Industry relations, and strategic development. With his leadership, PeopleNet’s customer roster grew 5x (500%) to over 1,500 fleet customers, revenue increased 27x (2700%) from $7m to $185m, and the devices deployed grew 27x (2700%) from 7,000 to 190,000 end users; including 107 of the top 200 fleets in North America. 100% of this growth was organic direct sales growth generated with no acquisitions. Kessler ultimately served on the acquisition deal due diligence team which eventually consummated one of the largest transactions in transportation technology history with the sale of PeopleNet to Trimble.Mr. Kessler founded the Transportation Executive Summit, an event which raised over $500k for transportation related charities. Kessler also founded the TCA Past Chairman's Scholarship Fund which has raised over $2m in scholarships for kids of truck drivers and other employees who keep America's freight moving. https://www.truckload.org/past-chairmens-fund/Mr. Kessler also serves the industry in many capacities such as: TCA Scholarship Fund Board Member; National Private Truck Council’s Advisory Board, Truckload Carriers Association’s Board of Directors, American Trucking Association’s Technology and Engineering Policy Committee, American Trucking Association’s Environmental and Engineering Policy Committee, TCA’s Membership and Legislative Committees and others.

As an executive and owner at Randall-Reilly, Kessler was the key executive overseeing many of their transportation media products. He co-founded Trucking Co. Magazine (now CCJ), where he had the first editorial column in the magazine that was subscribed to by over 40,000 trucking fleet executives. Mr. Kessler also co-founded the Overdrive Truck Stop and Travel Guide; Partners in Business, etrucker.net, and TCA's Commercial Carrier University.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, General

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Assistant Coach of the Auburn Tennis Team; Fellowship of Christian Athletes; Who's Who Among American College.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business

Education record