Skip Wyer founded Linea Capital in 2009 after five years managing the US real estate investment portfolio for Värde Partners, an $8.0 billion alternative investment manager. At Värde, Skip originated and managed a $600 million portfolio of commercial assets located throughout the US and Central America. In this capacity, Skip partnered with real estate developers, operators, and specialty lenders active in a variety of industry segments.

Skip joined Värde after serving as Senior Vice President at North American Capital Markets where he structured and arranged debt and equity financings for real estate operators, equipment leasing companies and specialty lenders. 

Earlier, Skip spent five years with Cargill Financial and affiliates as a Vice President / Structured Products Trader and was Cargill’s first “Entrepreneur-in-Residence”, receiving this distinction after developing a new lending platform, a new risk management business, and participating in Cargill’s eVentures Division. 

Skip moved home to Minneapolis in 1994 as a Vice President at Piper Jaffray where, as an investment banker, he originated and structured private debt financings in the asset securitization and project finance areas. 

Skip started his career in Boston at Shawmut Bank where, after completing a two year commercial lending training program, he worked in the Equipment Finance and Leasing Group as a commercial lender to leasing companies. 

During his 11 years in Boston, Skip spent four with the bank and the next 7 with American Finance Group, an equipment leasing company, as Manager of Debt Placement and Credit Underwriting, and its subsidiary, AIRFUND Corporation, where as a Vice President of Marketing he originated, structured, and acquired commercial aircraft lease transactions.