Christian Lehenbauer

President

Christian Lehenbauer is a co-founder and Managing Member of Arise Capital,
LLC. Mr. Lehenbauer oversees the company’s acquisitions and business-development
activities. He brings over 16 years of experience in general management and new business development to the company.

In addition to Arise Capital, LLC, Mr. Lehenbauer is the President of Arise Lending and owner of BreakThru Finance.

Before Arise Capital LLC, Mr. Lehenbauer was Associate Director of Reporting and Insights at The Nielsen Company, where he served in leadership and supervised the production, delivery, and evolution of all regular sales performance reporting to Walmart, Inc. Nielsen’s annual contract revenue from Walmart, Inc was $20,000,000 not including any ad hoc projects. The agreement between Walmart and Nielsen enabled Nielsen’s relationship with suppliers to Walmart, which resulted in over $100MM in revenue for the company. To this day, Nielsen has remained the preferred provider of competitive intelligence to Walmart and is the market leader in the data and measurement space. 

Before The Nielsen Company, Mr. Lehenbauer was Team Lead of an analytically-driven marketing platform at Walmart – Sam’s Club that drove over $1.3BB in incremental revenue to the company.

He graduated cum laude with a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Texas.