Akshay Pachisia

Akshay Pachisia is a Toronto-based corporate development and private equity professional. His current public profile lists him at Colliers in the Greater Toronto Area, and Colliers deal materials identify him as “Director, Strategic Investments, Global” in connection with the company’s 2022 acquisition of a controlling interest in Pangea Property Partners.

Before Colliers, Pachisia worked at ONCAP Management Partners, the lower-middle-market private equity platform of Onex. A 2023 ONCAP overview lists him as a Senior Associate and includes him in ONCAP’s technology industry initiative coverage. The same document describes ONCAP as Onex’s exclusive mid-market private equity platform, investing alongside management teams in medium-sized businesses primarily in Canada and the U.S.

MarketScreener’s profile for Pachisia lists prior roles including Private Equity Analyst at ONCAP Management, Corporate Officer/Principal at Imperial Capital Group, Principal at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, and Equity Research Analyst at Morningstar. It also reports that he received an undergraduate degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2012; his LinkedIn profile also lists Wilfrid Laurier University and notes graduation with distinction and co-founding the Laurier Finance Association.

In 2025, a Schulich School of Business instructor publicly thanked Pachisia for a guest lecture in Advanced Corporate Finance, describing his experience in international M&A at Colliers, ONCAP Management Partners, and Imperial Capital Limited. The post says he discussed cross-border M&A topics including currency fluctuations, tax considerations, strategic acquisitions, and Colliers’ acquisition-led evolution into investment management and engineering.

• ONCAP’s stated strategy is to invest in “North American headquartered small and medium-sized businesses with scalable, sustainable competitive positions,” often as the first significant institutional investor in founder-owned businesses.
• ONCAP targets Consumer, Industrials, and Services, with subthemes including multi-location consumer services, automotive aftermarket, health and wellness, engineered products and materials, systems/aftermarket/services, facility services, tech-enabled services, and education.
• ONCAP’s published criteria: North American headquarters, $50-$500 million enterprise value, $20-$250 million target equity investment, EBITDA above $5 million, significant minority or control equity investments, management ownership participation, and strong sustainable free cash flow.
• ONCAP says it creates value through strategic planning, building management depth, improving business infrastructure, executing M&A, organic growth, margin improvement, platform stability, and operational improvements.
• Colliers’ strategic acquisition approach centers on adding scale and resilient earnings across Commercial Real Estate, Engineering, and Investment Management. Its “Growth Story” page says Colliers blends enterprising culture with internal growth and acquisitions to create long-term shareholder value.
• Public sources do not verify a personal seed-stage angel investment thesis or check size for Pachisia, despite aggregator pages labeling him as an angel investor.