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Stephen Cummings
Professional Biography
Stephen is a leading advisor and financial expert who has worked extensively, and is well connected, in the Canadian Private Equity and Venture Capital Industry. He has international credentials being a qualified CPA, CA in Ontario and is an FCA in England and Wales. Stephen received his Certified Value Builder™ (CVB) and CERTIFIED EXIT PLANNING ADVISOR® (CEPA) designations in 2017 and 2021.
Prior to founding Rizolve Partners, a leading strategic business advisory firm to the SME market, Stephen was a leading executive with a top quartile Private Equity firm DRI Capital and a Partner with Lumira Capital, one of Canada’s leading Venture Capital firms. Prior to applying his skills in private capital, Stephen was the CFO at Harlequin Enterprises, a global publisher, and trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in London, UK.
Stephen has also conducted numerous successful consulting assignments in his own consulting practice involving acquisitions, disposals, financings, reorganizations, turnarounds and strategic advisory to numerous CEOs in both the public and private arenas.
In the Private Equity industry Stephen has chaired a country wide CFO task force leading this industry group through such paradigm changes in International Financial Reporting Standards, and Private Equity Valuation and Reporting best practices. He is also a sought after speaker who has spoken in Toronto and New York.
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Education
Stephen received a B. Sc. in Economics with honors from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Canadian Venture Capital Association and Financial Executives International.
Memberships
Stephen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Genomics Institute and Chairs its audit committee.
About Rizolve Partners
Rizolve Partners brings together all the right skills, leadership, and experience to deliver the roadmap required to maximize the value of your business.
We help business owners pivot from being just profit-driven to becoming value-driven businesses. Our expertise, proven processes, and leading-edge assessment tools provide you with an unbiased assessment of both the current and potential value of your company. Our seasoned advisors provide you with a plan of action customized to achieve optimal value for your business.
Mission, Vision, Values
We help privately-owned businesses achieve peak value. We’ll help you define the right path and take the right steps at the right time to realize optimal outcomes.
Our Mission
To help private business owners optimize the value of their business and ensure their company is transition-ready so that they can harvest their life’s work at peak value.
Our Vision
To be the leading Canadian advisor delivering strategies that unlock optimal value to position our clients’ businesses for a liquidity event.
Our Values
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