FirePower Capital
Trevor Simpson, MBA, CPA, has extensive experience in private debt, currently serving as Partner and Head of Private Debt at FP Partners since March 2024, and as a Partner at FirePower Capital since February 2017, where Trevor has held multiple leadership roles within the organization. Previously, Trevor spent three years at Roynat Capital, ascending from Analyst to Associate Director. Prior experience includes a directorial role in finance and procurement at Focus Business Consulting and serving as President of the DeGroote MBA Association at McMaster University. Trevor holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from McMaster University and an Honours Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the same institution, along with a commerce degree from The University of Western Australia.
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”.