FirePower Capital
Ilan Jacobson has extensive work experience in various roles and industries. Ilan is presently serving as the Founding Partner & CEO at FirePower Capital since August 2009. Additionally, they are a Board Member at Spearhead Corp Dev, BATL | The Home of Axe Throwing, HealthCasa Limited, IATF | International Axe Throwing Federation, Konfidis, and Interwork Technologies. Ilan has previously held the position of Board Member at Last Call Analytics, where they served from October 2017 to December 2018. Before that, they worked as a Portfolio Manager at BEST Funds from May 2007 to September 2009.
Ilan Jacobson attended Western University from 2002 to 2006, where they obtained their HBSc degree in Genetics. Following that, they pursued further education at the Ted Rogers School of Management, but the specific years of enrollment and the field of study for their MBA degree are not provided.
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”.