Michael Van Patten

Michael is the CEO and founder of Mission Markets and Mission Markets Earth LLC and leads strategic and business development efforts. He is considered an environmental capital markets innovator and is responsible for guiding Mission Markets' financial and technological innovation and applying it to the social and environmental capital markets.

Michael has over 20 years of experience on Wall Street and has been integrally involved in the design and implementation of private placement and illiquid security transactions platforms for several companies including co-founding the highly successful NYPPEX. Michael has been a featured speaker at several environmental and social markets conferences and has written several articles regarding environmental capital markets innovation and financial structure. Michael is also involved in several regional and national working groups that are developing standard metrics to measure biodiversity and habitat function and apply them to financial transactions. Michael possesses FINRA registrations 7, 63, 55, 24, 3.