FirePower Capital
Justin Gimza is a seasoned financial professional currently serving as Vice President at both FP Partners and FirePower Capital, positions held since March 2024 and April 2020, respectively. Previously, Justin held various roles at FirePower Capital, advancing from Analyst to Associate Manager and Manager. Additionally, Justin is a Dealing Representative at Belco Private Capital Inc. since January 2022 and was with RBC Capital Markets as Team Lead for Fixed Income and Analyst from May 2016 to April 2020. Earlier experience includes roles as a Customer Service Representative and Strategic Planning Analyst at TD Bank Group, where Justin worked from April 2014 to May 2016, as well as a Business Analyst position from April to September 2013. Justin Gimza earned a Bachelor's degree with a major in Political Science and a concentration in Economics from the University of Waterloo between 2010 and 2014.
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”.