Gerald Salvati

Gerald Salvati is a founding partner and Managing Director of Ellesmere Capital Partners, a Toronto-based independent investment bank specializing in small- to mid-market corporate finance transactions for companies working to transition the economy toward long-term sustainability. He brings more than 25 years of professional, business, and corporate finance experience to the firm.

His career began in public accounting, where he spent roughly nine years and rose to partner at a mid-sized firm. He subsequently served as CFO of a diversified manufacturing company and as investment manager for two venture capital funds. In a consulting capacity, he raised more than $25 million for clients in the biotechnology, IT, electronics, and food-processing sectors. His transaction experience also includes corporate finance advisory work on a major international oil and gas project with a capital budget in excess of $2 billion, advising a private engineering firm through a public shell-company takeover, and serving as CFO for two emerging technology companies. He has held board positions at several private and public companies.

Salvati earned his degree from McGill University and articled toward his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation at Price Waterhouse Coopers. He has also lectured in the CA programs at both McGill and Concordia Universities.

At Ellesmere, he leads coverage of clean technology and the food sector, working alongside partners including Chairman Todd Grunberg (energy and technology), Bruce Curlock (energy and industrials), Faisel Hoodbhoy (resources, alternative energy, and real estate), and Nigel King (manufacturing). The firm's stated objective is to facilitate the movement of capital into sectors with the greatest sustainability impact across its three themes of Energy, Food, and Technology.

• Focuses on companies advancing economic sustainability across three themes: Energy, Food, and Technology.
• Personal sector depth in clean technology, food/agri-processing, biotechnology/healthcare, IT, and electronics.
• Works primarily with small- to mid-market companies, guiding them to "the ideal source and type of capital to maximize long-term value and facilitate successful business strategy execution."
• Ellesmere differentiates through an ongoing survey of institutional funders' investment criteria, which the firm uses to match companies to capital faster and improve advisory quality.
• Given his background raising $25M+ for early-stage biotech, IT, electronics, and food clients, he is oriented toward founders needing capital-raising strategy and corporate finance discipline, not just a passive cheque.