{"version":1,"id":"michael-weisz","title":"Michael Weisz","summary":"Michael Weisz is a person that is a founder and operator in private markets who builds and advises alternative-investment and fintech businesses.","content":"**Michael Weisz** is an investment and financial services executive with a background in specialty finance, alternative investments, real estate finance, and asset management. He is Chief Executive Officer of [Kamino](https://iq.wiki/wiki/kamino-finance), Founder and Board Member of Yieldstreet, and Chief Investment Officer of Soli Capital. [\\[7\\]](#cite-id-nRhdIVIskQcPNqx6) \n\n## Education\n\nWeisz graduated from Touro College with a Bachelor’s in Finance. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-56ni8imja0) \n\n## Career\n\nWeisz began his career as a Real Estate Sales Agent at Heino Realty, where he handled lead generation, client acquisition, sales planning, underwriting, and administrative work. He then joined Eastern Union Commercial Real Estate as a Capital Placement Advisor, originating debt and securing financing for investment properties through banks, insurance companies, pension funds, private lenders, and other financial institutions. In 2009, he joined an asset-based investment fund as an Analyst and Vice President of Business Development, where he sourced senior secured debt opportunities, developed new business, evaluated cash flows and collateral, and prepared underwriting and credit committee materials across sectors including litigation finance, consumer finance, healthcare, mining, trade finance, and real estate.\n\nIn 2013, Weisz became Chief Investment Officer of Soli Capital, a specialty finance company focused on asset-based investments across areas including accounts receivable and purchase-order financing, real estate finance, and litigation finance. He founded Yieldstreet in 2014 and served as its President, building a platform that gave investors access to alternative asset-based investments while also developing financing capabilities for borrowers. He became Yieldstreet’s Chief Executive Officer in 2023 and transitioned to Founder and Board Member in 2025.\n\nIn September 2026, Weisz became Chief Executive Officer of [Kamino](https://iq.wiki/wiki/kamino-finance), where he focuses on building infrastructure for the distribution, compliance, lifecycle management, credit, and liquidity of tokenized assets. His role includes developing a system that connects financial institutions and their clients with eligible assets while incorporating institutional compliance processes, asset-management workflows, financing, [collateral](https://iq.wiki/wiki/collateral) management, and liquidity mechanisms. [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-jb3gk9x6k3)  [\\[5\\]](#cite-id-jmdnbxx20u) \n\n## Interviews\n\n### Unlocking Alternatives\n\nIn an April 2024 interview on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, Weisz discussed Yieldstreet's origins and development, as well as the broader challenge of giving individual investors access to private markets. He described how his experience in real estate and private credit, combined with seeing investors become more restricted from alternative investments following the 2008 financial crisis, influenced the creation of Yieldstreet. Weisz explained that the company combined financial expertise, technology, and regulatory processes before expanding from direct investments into a broader platform offering self-directed, guided, and managed alternative investment products for individuals and financial advisers. He also discussed the importance of customer-focused distribution, partnerships with established asset managers, and building trust through investment performance and service while making complex private-market products easier to understand. Weisz outlined plans to expand through acquisitions, adviser partnerships, managed portfolios, and potentially a secondary market, while identifying diversified managed products, greater liquidity and lending options, and easier access to private investments through IRAs as areas for further development.  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