Robert Napoli
Robert is the president of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Vancouver Chapter where he is well known in the Vancouver capital markets community. He is also an adviser to the Accounting Standards Board of Canada on Private Company Accounting Standards. Robert has significant experience in the British Columbia subordinated debt market. Prior to co-founding First West Capital, Robert was an investment manager at Vancity Capital Corporation where, over seven years, he completed over 30 subordinated debt transactions and built a successful portfolio of subordinated debt financed clients. His focus areas have included technology financing, acquisitions and management buy-outs.
Prior to coming to Canada, Robert was manager in the Corporate Finance and Recovery division of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Melbourne, Australia, where he worked in valuations, buy and sell side advisory, due diligence, restructuring and insolvency. In addition to holding a CA designation in Canada and Australia, Robert holds Honors Degrees in Commerce and Law from Monash University, Australia. He also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Contact Robert
Phone: 604-501-4294
E-mail: rnapoli@firstwestcapital.ca
Linked in: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/robertnapoli
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Popular media tell us the baby boomers are looking forward to retiring, playing golf and spending winters in Arizona. However, my experience with business owners is entirely different.
I had a client who wanted to buy a supplier. The merger would create tremendous synergies and provide capacity for future expansion. The vendors, a husband and wife, were in their late 60s, and after 30 years building the business, had admitted they were tired of running the day-to-day operations. They...
Most people will reach a certain age and slip quietly off into retirement. However, for those businesspeople and entrepreneurs who have built a company from the ground up, retiring is not always as simple as clocking out on a Friday afternoon, never to return to work.
When the owners of Tetrad Computer Applications—a leading provider of geographic information management software (GIS)—decided it was time to hand over the reins of the company they helped build, they wanted...
In today’s economy, public stock markets may be suffering, but it’s a seller’s market for private company transactions.
“There are four to five qualified buyers for every one private company we sell,” says Brent Cunningham, managing partner at Sequoia Business Brokers. Cunningham acts on behalf of owners of companies with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of half a million to ten million dollars, and he is seeing a...
If your business benefits from scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED) tax credits, the upcoming federal budget will likely have an impact on your company.
After a series of government reviews recommending change, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has stated that comprehensive reform is coming to innovation funding in Canada.
The problem, according to the prime minister, is that Canada gets too little bang for its innovation funding buck....
For many businesses, last year’s ongoing economic uncertainty and fluctuating Canadian dollar signaled a time of consolidation. For SydneyPlus, the Richmond-based global provider of knowledge management software, it signaled a time of expansion.
In late 2011, with $4 million in funding from First West Capital, SydneyPLUS completed the purchase of Massachusetts-based Inmagic’s special library automation business—a purchase SydneyPLUS president Ron Aspe says will give...
It’s rare to come across a financier who’s interested in more than just the bottom line; one who is genuinely passionate about helping businesses succeed. But in an age of big banks and centralized services, the idea of adding customized loans to the local lending market is what compelled Robert Napoli to start First West Capital.
Enter First West Capital
Robert, a Melbourne native with 12 years experience in finance and accounting, co-founded First...
