Carl P. Genberg
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carl Genberg joined Pilot Hill Advisors in 2025 after a lengthy career advising private and public companies on their most important transactions.
Carl was the National Practice Leader for Wells Fargo’s Business Transition Planning team advising business owners on transition alternatives including ESOPs, strategic sales, private equity recapitalizations, management buyouts and family / partner transitions. The team’s charter was both to educate business owners on their options but also aid in the decision-making process through qualitative and quantitative discovery, valuation and proceeds analysis to identify the best option for each client.
Carl also served as co-head of Wells Fargo Securities’ 10-state North Region middle market investment banking and capital markets practice leading sellside and buyside mergers and acquisitions, as well as bank, bond, private credit and equity market transactions. He also managed a $5 billion loan origination, underwriting and servicing portfolio including complex leveraged ESOP financings for Wells Fargo Bank.
Prior to his 17-year career with Wells Fargo, Carl was a sellside M&A investment banker with two middle market boutiques, a financial and operating executive for multiple start-ups and Fortune 500 companies and a management consultant. In these roles, Carl raised capital and led the successful exits of multiple private companies from the inside giving him a deep appreciation for the challenges faced by client management teams.
Carl graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from Claremont McKenna College where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a Lowe/Baker Research Scholar.