Rick Brown 

Mr. Brown spent ten years with the Bank of Nova Scotia and Scotia Capital Markets in New York. He began this period as a corporate lending officer. After four years in the corporate lending group, Mr. Brown moved to Scotia's investment bank, where he became head of investment grade fixed income origination, focusing primarily on foreign issuers accessing the U.S. capital markets.
Prior to joining Osprey Capital in November of 2001, Mr. Brown spend three years as chief financial officer of a Canadian hi-tech company where he was responsible for all financial aspects, including fund raising, bank facilities, mergers and acquisitions and the development of the Company’s business strategy

Mr. Brown holds a Masters degree in finance from the Daniels School of Business at the University of Denver and a BA in Economics from the University of Guelph.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Alan Crossley

Mr. Crossley brings over twenty-five years of chemical, petroleum and logistics industry experience to Osprey. Prior to joining, he was Senior Vice President of Canada’s largest and fastest growing independent petroleum products marketing income trust. In this capacity he was involved in and led multiple acquisitions and well as managing the operations of a number of the companies businesses. His background includes senior financial and operating positions, in both private and public companies, and involved management buyouts and IPO’s in the transportation and chemical industries.

Mr. Crossley holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Queens University School of Business and a BA majoring in Economics from York University.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Stephen Jakob

Prior to co-founding Osprey Capital, Mr. Jakob was a Partner and Director with Gordon Capital Corporation where he provided investment banking advice to a number of Canadian public and private companies. Mr. Jakob had responsibility for a variety of transactions including bought deals, special warrants, convertible debentures, initial public offerings, asset sales and going-private transactions.

Before joining Gordon Capital, Mr. Jakob was the President and a Director of a private packaging and distribution company. He became involved shortly after the start-up and initiated and completed the ultimate sale to one of Canada's largest consumer products companies.

After receiving an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, he taught Business 257, Canadian Institute of Management and Institute of Canadian Bankers courses at Western.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Eric Jensen (Winnipeg)

Eric is a professional management consultant who spent nearly 20 years with Deloitte Consulting, a large multinational consulting organization. His specialities included working on business transformations, technology implementations, new business start-ups and running large teams on multidisciplinary projects. Prior to Deloitte Consulting, Eric worked in commercial banking with the Toronto Dominion Bank. Eric serves on a variety of non profits in Manitoba in the health care and leisure industries.

Eric received his undergraduate degree in Business from the University of Manitoba, a certified management consultant accreditation (CMC), a certified management accountant accreditation (CMA), and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario in 1989.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Brian Faughnan

Mr. Faughnan has spent his career in the capital markets developing diverse transactional and analytical expertise across a broad cross-section of industry groups, in both advisory and operational roles. Before joining Osprey Capital, he was a senior executive at a leading venture capital firm and prior to that, Mr. Faughnan was a Founder and Managing Director of a Toronto-based specialized Investment Bank.

Mr. Faughnan holds an Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Toronto’ s Rotman School of Business and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Grant Howard (Calgary)

Since 1988, Mr. Howard has served as Owner and President of The Howard Group Inc., Western Canada's oldest investor and financial relations firm. With a strict focus on assisting small and micro cap companies, Mr. Howard has assisted clients in raising equity and advised on numerous corporate finance mandates.

Mr. Howard is a member of the Bachelor of Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee to the Bisset School of Business at Mount Royal College. He previously served as a director on the Calgary Angel Network Committee, a community backed effort to organize the angel investing network in Calgary.

Prior to forming The Howard Group, he enjoyed a multifaceted extensive career in the communications industry spanning television and radio journalism to crisis and media consulting. Grant is currently a director of Solana Resources, which is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the AIM Exchange in the United Kingdom.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Frederick Innis (Winnipeg)

Prior to joining Osprey Capital, Mr. Innis led a capital advisory service with a small cap focus. He completed investment banking assignments in the B2B software development sector, the junior resource sector and in the medical waste industries, advising on reverse takeovers, strategic acquisitions and debt refinancing. He has board level experience in publicly traded and private companies.

Mr. Innis currently advises on the lifecycle needs of private companies in a wide range of industries in the prairie region. He gets results from managing relationships with multiple stakeholders at the intersection of government, business and finance.

Mr. Innis holds a law degree from the University of Ottawa, an MBA from the University of Toronto, has taught income tax policy at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba and is a member of the board of the Westminster Housing Society.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Martin Kossowski

Mr. Kossowski’s background in Canadian and international banking and investment banking spans more than 30 years, most of which was with TD Securities and TD Bank Financial Group. In 2001, he formed Meriak Consulting, which provides specialized financial and regulatory services to the commercial and financial sectors.

Over the years he has helped many Canadian companies with their domestic and international financial and investment requirements. He has also assisted numerous foreign companies establish businesses in Canada, including arranging their financial needs.

A Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers, he regularly teaches various advanced courses covering the subjects of banking and the flow of financial assets, at a number of accounting, banking and other organizations.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Donald Locke

Mr. Locke has 30 years of investment banking, industrial marketing and general management experience. Before joining Osprey Capital, Mr. Locke spent three years working at a boutique investment banking firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. His previous experience also includes ten years at Merrill Lynch, working with owner/operators and ten years as Director of Marketing at GATX Terminals in Chicago.

Mr. Locke has a Masters Degree in Business from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from McGill.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Robert Mark

Mr. Mark has over 37 years of experience in the investment banking industry. Mr. Mark was formerly a director and senior partner of Gordon Capital Corporation. Prior to Gordon Capital, he was a vice-president at Dominion Securities, a predecessor company to RBC Financial Group.

He has worked in many sectors of the capital markets over the past 37 years and has spent over 20 years of his career covering foreign and domestic institutional investors in the United States, Europe and Asia.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Neil Mark

Mr. Mark comes from a backgroud specializing in sales, account management and marketing. Mr. Mark is a graduate of the University of Windsor who's involvement foucuses on buy-side client relationships, expanding and maintaining Osprey Capital's comprehensive investor/client databases, as well as day to day transaction management.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

John Mottola (Winnipeg)

Mr. Mottola specializes in advising the management teams and directors on the strategic options associated with and the execution of various merger, acquisition, and capital formation transactions, in addition to providing other strategic evaluations. Mr. Mottola has extensive executive and board level experience in various capacities in private and publicly traded companies in the life sciences sector.

Mr. Mottola received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Winnipeg and his Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. He is a past director of the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Manitoba.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Francis Roche 

Mr. Roche has over 20 years experience raising money for Canadian and international small and mid cap companies.

He began his career with CIBC-Wood Gundy as an investment banker and spent 6 years specializing in the natural resources sector. Mr. Roche subsequently founded and was President of Roche Securities Limited, a full service investment dealer specializing in small cap companies based in Edmonton, Alberta. The last 5 years Mr. Roche has focussed on international financings having raised funds for both private and public companies operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Nigeria, Central African Republic, the United kingdom, Australia, The Philippines and Mali.

He also has undertaken several formal fairness and valuation opinions of public companies, and acted as an expert witness on securities law matters involving public companies.

Francis Roche is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute, former member of the Alberta District Council of the Investment Dealers Association of Alberta. He holds degrees from Harvard College (A.B.), McGill University (L.LB./M.B.A.) and Laval University (L.LM).

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Steve Ronald 

Mr. Ronald has over 13 years of commercial real estate experience representing a public REIT, various pension funds, an insurance company and a development consultant in acquisitions and asset management roles. Mr. Ronald has a proven professional track record achieved through progressive positions with Sun Life Financial, Bentall LP and Charter REIT. He has been involved in over $4.0 billion of retail, industrial, office and land transactions across Canada during his career. Mr. Ronald has been responsible for the sourcing, underwriting, structuring, negotiation, due diligence and financing of institutional quality and value added real estate assets.

Mr. Ronald holds BAA in Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson University.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Troy Ternowetsky

Mr. Ternowetsky has led and executed numerous investment banking assignments across a wide range of industries. Prior to joining Osprey Capital, he was with a Toronto based investment banking firm and has spent over a decade in sales and marketing management in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. He is a regular contributor of financial articles to Canadian business periodicals.

Mr. Ternowetsky holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario.

............................................................................................................................... TOP

Peter Weichler (Calgary)

Mr. Weichler brings over twenty years of industry experience to Osprey. His background includes twelve years as a senior investment advisor with three major Canadian investment firms specializing in small capital stocks. Mr. Weichler also has experience in a variety of lending roles including loan/lease brokering specializing in oil and gas lending and commercial lending with a major Canadian Bank.

Mr. Weichler was educated in Edmonton completing a B.A. in Political Science and an M.B.A in Finance from the University of Alberta.