Walker Deibel

Walker Deibel is an experienced entrepreneur, investor, and fund managerwith nearly two decades of private market experience. He has acquired andoperated multiple companies across manufacturing, distribution, and eCommerce,deploying his own capital and leading teams to scale and exit successfully.Walker is the author of Buy Then Build, the WSJ and USA Today bestselleron acquisition entrepreneurship, and founder of Acquisition Lab, an eliteaccelerator that has guided hundreds of entrepreneurs in acquiring $1b in smalland mid-sized businesses.

Through Build Wealth LLC and Build Capital, Walker has raised anddeployed over $50 million across private equity, real estate, credit, andenergy, sponsoring and co-sponsoring funds and SPVs that provide accreditedinvestors access to professionally diligenced and managed opportunities. He hasplayed an active role in over 100 private market transactions. Walker’sinvestment approach blends institutional-grade underwriting with a founder’soperational insight, designed to create durable cash flow and asymmetric upsidefor limited partners.  

Walker holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and multipleprofessional certifications and awards in private transactions. He is afrequent keynote speaker on entrepreneurship and private market investing andhas appeared in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, The Hustle, Yahoo!Finance, Inc., and Harvard Business Review.