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Michael is Managing Partner of McIntosh Partners LP, a Vancouver-based search fund looking to acquire, operate and grow a private company headquartered in Canada. Previously Michael worked with McIntosh Properties, a BC-based family investment office, focused on commercial real estate and investments in various operating businesses. Michael also previously worked as a Director of Businesses Development for a leading remote video monitoring company in North America after it was acquired by a search fund, as well as with Synova Capital, a leading private equity investor focused on growth companies in the UK. Michael holds an MBA from London Business School.

Lindsay is a Senior Manager in EY’s Vancouver Transaction Support practice, with primary expertise in providing buy-side transaction advisory services. He has been involved in over 70 financial due diligence engagements for a diverse range of clients, including private equity groups, large corporations, owner-managed businesses, and state-owned enterprises. In the past five years, he has led due diligence projects in the mining, oil & gas, retail & distribution, technology, media, and consulting & services sectors. His experience includes buy-side and sell-side roles, dispute situations, financially distressed targets, counterparty diligence, and project management support. His experience includes buy-side and sell-side roles, dispute situations, financially distressed targets, counterparty diligence, and project management support. Lindsay is a Chartered Accountant in Canada (since 2011) and Australia (since 2007). As a graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney, Lindsay received a Bachelor of Accounting / Finance degree in 2004. Prior to joining Transaction Support in 2010, Lindsay had 5 years experience in the Assurance and Advisory Business Services practices in Vancouver and Sydney, Australia, primarily auditing large multi-national and emerging growth companies in the hospitality, real estate, aviation, mining, oil & gas industries.

Jan is an Investor, Banker and Scholar who has invested in private and public markets, advised and raised public capital across multiple industries in Europe and North America. Jan is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Dutch. For over a decade he worked for Goldman Sachs International, Merrill Lynch International, and Salomon Brothers International. He co-headed the Emerging Markets Trading Desk at Salomon Brothers, set up the Continental Sales-Trading Desk at Goldman Sachs and was a member of Merrill Lynch’ Hedge Fund Advisory Group. He has been a special advisor to Pacific Lake Partners, a Boston-based institutional investor in search funds and is the managing partner of Vonzeo Capital, a Vancouver-based institutional investor in search funds. His expertise is in the areas of: investment strategies, alternative investments and mergers and acquisitions for both European and North American markets. He has managed money in equities, fixed income and advised hedge funds in a variety of strategies. He has a PhD in Finance, Master in Business Administration, Post-Graduate in Investment Advice, Masters in Law, and a Bachelor of Law. Since 2003 Jan has been teaching at universities in Europe and North America. He has taught at Beedie School of Business, IESE Business School, INSEAD, NYU Stern and UCLA Anderson School of Management. He was a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics. He is on the Dean’s Roll for Excellence in Teaching and has won several ‘Best Teacher’s Awards’. The Economist rated him as one of the Top #20 Business School Professors in the world. He served the first battalion Para-Commando as well as NATO’s Special Intervention Forces. He holds both Commando A and Parachutist A military certificates.