Team Bios

Wiley P. Kitchell

Mr. Kitchell is a Managing Director of Moss Adams Capital LLC. In this capacity, he specializes in advising companies and middle-market business owners who wish to sell their companies or who need to raise debt or equity capital in order to pursue expansion or acquisition opportunities.

Mr. Kitchell has over 15 years of investment banking experience working with privately-owned companies. Prior to joining Moss Adams Capital, he was a Managing Director and co-founder of The Commerce Bank's Corporate Finance Group based in Seattle where he specialized in arranging private equity transactions for companies located in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to that position, Mr. Kitchell served as First Vice President and Manager of the Corporate Finance Group at Security Pacific Bank of Washington (formerly Rainier Bancorporation). Mr. Kitchell commenced his investment banking career with Goldman Sachs in New York.

Mr. Kitchell received a B.A. degree in Economics and Anthropology from Duke University, and a MBA in Finance from Northwestern University.

Harman K. “Jet” Wales

Mr. Wales is a Managing Director of Moss Adams Capital LLC. In this capacity, he specializes in advising owners and entrepreneurs who wish to sell their middle-market company or who need new investors to supply growth capital for expansion or acquisition opportunities.

Prior to this position, he was the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of U.S. Bank's Investment Banking Group based in Seattle. Before joining U.S. Bank, he was an Investment Manager with Prudential Capital Corporation in New York and San Francisco. Earlier in his career, he was a member of Citicorp’s Leveraged Finance Group in Los Angeles. His previous experience includes eight years as an officer in the United States Air Force, during which he was assigned to a Fighter Squadron and, while posted at the Pentagon, worked directly with the Senate and House of Representatives as a Congressional Liaison for the Department of Defense.

Mr. Wales received a B.S. degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Richard M. Anderson

Mr. Anderson is a Managing Director of Moss Adams Capital LLC. In this capacity, he advises owners and management teams who wish to address liquidity and growth alternatives for shareholders and corporations. Merger & acquisition assignments include the sale of businesses, acquisitions, re-capitalizations and management buy-outs. The Corporate Finance assignments include arranging private equity and debt capital to finance internal growth and acquisitions.

Prior to this position, Mr. Anderson was a SVP with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company (“FBR”), a publicly-owned investment bank, where he managed Merger & Acquisition and Corporate Finance assignments for public and private businesses. Before joining FBR, he was a Director with Trenwith Securities, a boutique investment bank, where he assisted middle market companies in arranging private equity and debt capital and in buy-side or sell-side assignments. Earlier in his career, Mr. Anderson was a SVP with NationsBank, where he managed the Western United States Region and was the bank’s liaison to their Capital Markets group.

Mr. Anderson earned his undergraduate degree in Finance and Economics from Ohio State University in 1983 and his MBA degree from Pepperdine University in 1987.

Stephen J. Duffy

Mr. Duffy is a Managing Director and the leader of the real estate consulting and investment banking business in Moss Adams Capital. He has over 27 years of real estate consulting and capital markets experience.  Mr. Duffy has been a partner at both Kenneth Leventhal & Company and Ernst & Young LLP.  In addition, he has operating executive experience as a chief operating officer, principal and managing principal in the multi-family industry and the institutional real estate private equity sector. 

Mr. Duffy has worked with a wide variety of the leading private and public real estate operating companies across product types, the capital stack (equity investors and lenders), and domestic and international markets.  He has significant experience in restructuring, capital markets and strategic planning and he has been involved in numerous capital transactions as well as mergers and acquisitions within the industry over a number of real estate cycles.  He has spoken on these topics in a variety of industry forums over his career. 

Mr. Duffy is a full member of the Urban Land Institute. He has a B.S. in Economics as well as an MBA from the Graduate School of Business of Fordham University.

Geoffrey B. Haydon

Mr. Haydon is a Vice President with Moss Adams Capital LLC. In this role, he advises middle market business owners who wish to sell their company, make strategic acquisitions, or raise capital for growth.

Prior to this position, Mr. Haydon was a Vice President at Haydon U.S., a boutique financial restructuring firm in Seattle which he co-founded. In this role, Mr. Haydon provided transaction and consulting services for financially distressed, middle market companies. Previously, Mr. Haydon was an Analyst with JP Morgan in New York, where he worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions group. Mr. Haydon began his career as a Summer Analyst for two years with investment bank Friedman Billings Ramsey, in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Haydon received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Washington and Lee University.

Gregory J. Fink

Mr. Fink is a Senior Manager with Moss Adams Capital LLC with a focus on the real estate industry.  He has more than 12 years of investment banking and capital markets experience having begun his career as an investment banker at CS First Boston in 1994 in Los Angeles.  Most recently, Mr. Fink was a Senior Vice President at KayEL Capital and a Vice President with IHP Capital Partners where he specialized in analyzing and underwriting residential real estate investments in various markets across the U.S.  Previously, Mr. Fink was a Principal at Neveric LLC, a boutique merchant bank focused on leading venture stage companies to transactions. 

A graduate of Stanford University (Economics and Art History), he also received an MBA from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Leo Lee

Mr. Lee is an Analyst with Moss Adams Capital LLC. In this role, he specializes in a wide range of corporate finance activities in advising middle market business owners that wish to sell their company, make strategic acquisitions, or raise capital for growth.

Prior to this position, Mr. Lee was an Analyst with Goldman Sachs in New York in the investment banking division. He previously worked as an assistant in the equity research department at Ragen MacKenzie, a Seattle-based securities firm.

Mr. Lee received a B.A. degree in Business Administration from University of Washington where he majored in Finance, and a M.A. degree in economics from New York University.