Co-Founder of Gladstone Private Equity, a boutique family office with a management & investment development practice with an agnostic approach to investment, predominately focused on small medium sized businesses with double digit EBITDA with a historical strength around free cash flows and dividend horizons. Gladstone is focused on health care services, ecommerce, technology (digital assets), and investments that provide wealth preservation. Co-founded a Real Estate Private Placement and Qualified Investors Fund and raised €30 million in value capital from a New York/London based hedge fund, for private placement towards companies holding state regulated residential housing in Central Europe that were looking to liquidate their assets via bulk sales. (Similar to Viterra and other investment funds in Germany)Board Advisor & Director for a GCC Telecom EPC firm focused on government infrastructure contracts. $290 million USD, Developer Contractor finance (2010, Singapore/Chinese)Raised €237.5 million Euro. Value Capital for Acquisition of common shares of a Hold Co. European Real Estate portfolio (2007)Raised 235 million AED, senior secured non-recourse real estate finance- Dubai (2008)- Project FinanceRaised $5 million USD investment into Dubai Company (2008)- quasi-equity, non-recourse loan swapped into equity M&A advisory of a regionally based GCC material supplier and raised $3.7m in working capital facilities, increasing their facility by 60% that turned around the company, which increased their revenues from $15 million to $60 million in 2.5 years that lead to a private equity share closingDealt and Managed “Off Plan” residential financing and package deal structuring in Europe valuing €64 million from 2003-2005Lectured courses at 5 universities based in Europe and CanadaLead private equity transactions in the Aerospace, Petrochemical & Construction sectorsChairmen & panel speaker: Real estate conferences in Europe & the GCCPersonal interviews: Sunday Times & Wall Street Journal- Property in EuropeSpecialties: Corporate Finance, Operational Management & Deal Structuring
Listed skills include Private Equity, Mergers And Acquisitions, Due Diligence, Corporate Finance, and 32 others.