News & Announcements


March 5, 2008

Balquhain Advisory Team Expands


John Duguid, Managing Director of Balquhain Limited is very pleased to announce that Jason Fielden and Rod Howland have joined Balquhain's Advisory professionals.

Jason Fielden has been providing premium transaction advisory and support services in the mid-markets since 2006. From 2001-2006, he was with Scotia Capital, the corporate and investment banking arm of Scotiabank. Jason worked on many high profile transactions during his tenure. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as a mechanical engineer and project manager in the petrochemical, high energy physics and telecommunications industries.Jason’s expertise includes transaction strategy, pre-deal analysis, risk analysis, controlled auction process, marketing documents, negotiation, structuring, valuation/pricing, and full transaction support services including his unique Adaptive Due Diligence Program. Jason has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Saskatchewan (distinction) and an MBA from Queen's University (finance) where he won the Queen's Gold Medal.

Rod Howland is a Senior Business Advisor specializing in debt and equity financing for growing companies. He helps his clients’ gain a competitive advantage by arranging financing that is tailored to the particular needs of the company. Rod draws on his extensive experience in banking, investment banking, venture capital and consulting to help clients overcome the challenges they face when trying to arrange financing for their businesses. He has particular expertise in helping companies develop appropriate financing strategies and preparing business plans. In the course of his career Rod has served as Vice President Corporate Banking for a major chartered bank and held similar positions with a term lender, an investment dealer and a venture capital firm. Rod has financed the debt and equity requirements of both large and small companies in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, distribution, real estate and technology intensive businesses. He has also served as a member of the investment committee of a Toronto based mezzanine fund and as a director of both public and private companies. Rod earned his degree in business administration from George Washington University, and is a member of the Association For Corporate Growth and the Canadian Association of Management Consultants.

April 4, 2007

Appointments to the Balquhain Advisory Board


John Duguid, Managing Director of Balquhain Limited is delighted to announce that Dr. Don Cyr, Dr. David J. Howell and Andrei Manoukovski, Phd have joined the Balquhain Advisory Board.

Dr. Cyr is an Associate professor of Finance at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario and the Associate Dean for graduate programs and research within the Faculty of Business. His teaching focuses on corporate finance, international finance and investments and carries out research in all of these areas.

Dr. Howell is based in Sydney, Australia and is co-head of the Asia-Pacific Project Finance unit of Moody’s Investors Service – one of the major global ratings agencies. David has been working in the financial markets for 20 years, in Sydney, New York and London. He has gained experience in all forms of financing from equity to debt. The majority of his experience has been in project finance, and he has financed mines, process plant, power stations, water treatment works, hospitals, toll roads and other infrastructure.

Andrei Manoukovski is the President of Krescendi Inc., a Toronto based private equity firm specializing in Canadian innovative private companies. Prior to founding Krescendi, he was Managing Partner of an international project finance and real estate development group based in Moscow. Andrei founded and was Dean of one of the first business schools in Russia – International Business School of Moscow
(IBS-M), which later became The Institute of Business Studies (Moscow).







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