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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
1 vehicle on file, newest listing first
none appears on more than one
Paul L. Kessler has served as our Executive Chairman since January 2025. He is the Co-Founder and has been Co-Manager of Bristol Capital Advisors, LLC (“BCA”), the investment advisor to Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd., since BCA’s inception in March 2000. Mr. Kessler has extensive experience as a deep value investor, financier, and venture capitalist, working with both public and private growth companies across various industries, including biotechnology, technology, energy, education, and consumer products. From November 2021 to March 2024, Mr. Kessler was a member of “The CEO Council,” an advisory group of business leaders formed by the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce to support regional economic recovery. In February 2019, Mr. Kessler became a founding member and director of LK Advisors, Inc. (formerly PiMac Advisors Inc.) a mortgage lending advisory company. Since October 2019, Mr. Kessler has been a member of the board of managers of Bristol Luxury Group LLC and Sugarfina Corporation (formerly Sugarfina Holdings LLC), the parent companies to Sugarfina USA LLC, a luxury candy retailer. He also serves as an advisor to MedTech Innovator, a nonprofit accelerator for medical technology companies, and is a lead investor and advisor to RX3 Ventures and Act One Ventures. Additionally, Mr.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001113835 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 15 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 7 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.