FirePower Capital
Rieshdah Gabier has a diverse range of work experience in various roles and industries. Rieshdah is currently the Director of Marketing And Business Development at Spearhead Corp Dev, where they are responsible for providing buy-side advisory services to consolidators and private equity firms. Prior to this, they worked at FirePower Capital as the Director of Business Development & People and later as the Vice President of Revenue Generation and Growth Marketing. Rieshdah also served as the Marketing Manager at Ewing Morris & Co. Investment Partners Ltd., where they developed and executed marketing strategies and streamlined operational processes. Earlier in their career, they worked at Ninety One as a Sales Associate, where they identified prospects, managed the sales pipeline, and generated marketing collateral. Rieshdah also worked as a Team Assistant, providing secretarial support to the institutional sales team. Before that, they served as a Finance Officer at The King James Group.
Rieshdah Gabier completed a course called "The New Manager" at the Graduate School of Business - University of Cape Town in 2014. In 2021 and 2022, they pursued a course in Investments and Securities at the Canadian Securities Institute. It is not specified when Rieshdah Gabier started or completed their Bachelor of Commerce degree in Law and Business Management at the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika.
In addition to their formal education, Rieshdah Gabier obtained several certifications, including WCMSoar from WCM in May 2023, Drive results with talent from The Predictive Index in December 2022, and various course certificates from Coursera, including "Positioning: What you need for a successful Marketing Strategy" in December 2020, "Market Research and Consumer Behavior" in October 2020, and "The Strategy of Content Marketing" in August 2020.
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”.