Joseph McElroy

Independent Director

Joe McElroy is a Managing Partner at Merced Capital, an opportunistic investment firm formed in 1988 by the founders of Cargill's Financial Markets Department. Joe serves as a director of several of Merced's portfolio companies. Before joining Merced in 2015, he invested capital in the debt and equity of public and private companies at CarVal Investors (a multi-billion dollar hedge fund founded in 1987) and private equity buyouts at Norwest Equity Partners (a multi-billion dollar private equity firm founded in 1961). Prior to his investing career, Joe advised businesses as a member of the Mergers and Acquisition Investment Banking Groups at Merrill Lynch in New York and Robert W. Baird in Chicago.

Joe earned a B.B.A. degree in Finance, Investment, and Banking from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Harvard Business School.