FirePower Capital
Gleb Poliakov is an accomplished Analyst in M&A Advisory at Spearhead Corp Dev, having transitioned from a Junior Analyst role within the same firm since May 2023. Gleb holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology and English from the University of Toronto, where a strong academic record was maintained with a GPA of 4.0/4. During the educational tenure from 2020 to 2023, Gleb served as a Research Assistant, coding over 1,200 data entries and collaborating with peers on research projects. Prior experience includes two internships at BEworks, where extensive literature reviews and published white papers were produced, alongside a prior role as a Content Developer at IBRocket, developing study materials for the International Baccalaureate program.
FirePower Capital
FirePower Capital advises and invests in Canada’s entrepreneurs, helping them complete mission-critical transactions, such as acquiring a competitor, selling to a strategic buyer, or financing their growth with our own or our partners’ capital. We started FirePower Capital with a single thought in mind: give lower mid-market companies access tothe same level of sophisticated transactional advice that is only available to larger companies; reason is, investment banks in Canada do not “scale down” from headline-grabbing deals.As a team we have created a next-generation investment bank specifically for lower mid-market companies. Since 2012, we have brought together a diverse and dynamic team of deal-makers, marketers, entrepreneurs, engineers, and developers to execute on the vision.We have challenged the ways investment banks traditionally do deals: for example, we have created a cross-functional team in which experts fulfill a specific component of each deal; we have written new software that has allowed us to advance multiple deals simultaneously without sacrificing attention to detail; we have built new, active networks that connect Canadian businesses with relevant buyers, investors, and lenders worldwide.We are determined to win in the lower mid-market, where no-one thinks it is feasible to grow a successful investment bank. Our people will continue to disrupt the ways deals get done in Canada with their results-driven attitude, entrepreneurial spirit, and confidence to say “we can do this better”.