Brandon Arner
Founder, BuildUp Group
Finance, lending and capital structure
Brandon founded BuildUp Group to buy and keep local Utah businesses that make each other stronger. He is the founder and CEO of BuildUp Capital, a business-purpose lender, and a co-founder and part owner of ASA Collect, a Dallas B2B commercial collections firm. Previously he was Head of FP&A at Skillz and CFO of a private-equity-backed company.
Expertise
- Financial planning & analysis
- Corporate finance
- Business-purpose lending
- Commercial collections
- Real estate underwriting
Experience
Founder & Partner
BuildUp Group
Founder & CEO
BuildUp Capital
Co-founder & part owner
ASA Collect (Alexander, Strauss & Associates)
Head of FP&A
Skillz
CFO
Private-equity-backed company
FP&A
Coin Cloud
FP&A
H-E-B
Real estate underwriting
Early career
Education
- MBA, USC Marshall School of Business
- BBA, Real Estate, University of San Diego
Writing & talks
First position is an order of payment
Borrowers hear lien position as paperwork. It is the one term that decides who gets paid when a sale goes badly, and it is the reason a lender can look at the building and the operator instead of a credit box.
Brandon Arner · Capital & finance · 3 min read
The mistake was made three years earlier
Five turnarounds, and in every one the decision that killed the company had already been taken long before anyone was worried — almost always about how the thing was financed.
Brandon Arner · Operating · 4 min read