Senior Leadership

Dianna Raedle is CEO/President and Founder of Deer Isle Group – an innovative investment banking and advisory firm that specializes in global growth strategies and complex capital solutions. Founded in 2007, Deer Isle provides institutional financial strategy/advisory services, a proprietary FINTECH solution, and specialized consulting services. The firm has raised, through its broker/dealer subsidiary, over $5 billion in private placement capital.

Before founding Deer Isle Group, Dianna was co-founder/managing member and investment committee member of Millennium Americas, a sub-advisor to the Millennium Americas Special Situations Fund, which invested in private capital transactions across the Americas with a focus on Latin America.

Prior to Millennium Americas, Dianna worked in structured finance at institutions including CS First Boston, where she worked in London and Switzerland, SBC Warburg, and Citibank.

Dianna is currently a board member of OceanGate, and Harvard Business School Club of NY where she is co-chair of the strategy committee; and she is Board Emeritus/former co-chair of HBSCNY Community Partners.  In addition, Dianna is a former Board Member of Medalist Diversified REIT and a former member of the Princeton University Entrepreneurship Council Alumni Advisory Board.  In addition, Dianna is on the Executive Advisory Board of the Baryshnikov Foundation. She is also a frequent speaker and teaches workshops including at the Princeton University Keller Center for Entrepreneurship.

Dianna has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Princeton University. She holds Series 7, 24, 63, 65, 99 and 79 Registrations.

Michael Cha is a Senior Managing Director at Deer Isle Group. He brings 25+ years experience in equity and high yield research, and equity and derivatives trading.

Previously, Michael was senior trader and senior energy analyst at BBT Capital Management Advisors LLC, a Connecticut-based hedge fund turned family office. He was head trader for a $1 billion long-short energy and utilities fund, managing beta exposure, portfolio allocations, and commission schedules, in addition to maintaining relationships with prime brokers, vendors, and over 40 institutional brokers. He also assisted in identifying, analyzing, and managing investments in the fund.

Prior to that, he was one of the founding members of J.P. Morgan’s corporate debt and equity securities business following the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He led the due diligence, roadshow, and research coverage on the first equity-linked public securities offering by any commercial bank since 1933. Michael headed the Independent Power Producer and the Oil and Gas Exploration and Production sector research teams, and lead- or co-managed over 30 primary and secondary offerings, elevating J.P. Morgan to number 1 in the E&P league tables from a previously unranked position. He conducted due diligence, built financial models, published research, and marketed globally on over 25 energy companies with assets in North America, Southeast Asia, Former Soviet Union, South America, and West Africa.

He was a former board member and Interim CFO of Gadsden Properties Inc. since September 2020, where he provided assistance in a real estate restructuring/workout situation, until he resigned in May 2022 after joining Deer Isle.

Michael holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Peter Madsen is a Senior Managing Director and is a seasoned finance professional with over three decades of experience in financial markets where he has extensive experience from both an investment banking and deal structuring perspective as well as specializing in generating high risk-adjusted returns by acquiring undervalued assets and managing risk through the options market.

Since 2009, Peter has successfully managed a family office, leveraging his deep expertise in equity investments and strategic risk management.

Peter’s career includes prominent roles such as Chief Investment Officer at Alpha Investment Management where Peter’s leadership and insight had been instrumental in driving innovative investment strategies and delivering consistent results across various market cycles. In addition, Peter was Co-CIO at Countrywide Alternative Asset Management where he was responsible for their innovative, alternative mortgage strategies. Prior to Countrywide, Peter was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Company, where he served for nearly a decade.

Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Colorado Boulder.