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Rizolve Partners Inc. helps privately owned businesses achieve peak value. We’ll help you define the right path and take the right steps at the right time to realise optimal outcomes.
Owning a business that is saleable and ready to be transferred to a new owner at optimal terms requires the alignment of personal, financial and business strategies.
Building intangible value in your business is the essence of shareholder value creation. Confidently demonstrating that business performance is both repeatable and scaleable is essential.
We identify and help you optimise the key value drivers that buyers look for to ensure that you are well positioned for a successful and profitable exit at the most opportune time. Our process provides you with a detailed roadmap and performance indicators, as well as milestone checkpoints to ensure accountability at every step of the way.
Stephen L Cummings
Stephen is a leading adviser and financial expert who works with private business owners to drive value and put in place transformational strategies that position businesses for exit on optimal terms. He has international credentials, being a qualified CPA, CA in Ontario, and is an FCA in England and Wales. He received a B. Sc. in Economics with honours from the University of Leicester in the UK, and is a Certified Exit Planning & Value Growth Adviser.
Prior to founding Rizolve Partners – and establishing it as a leading strategic business advisory firm addressing the lower mid-market – Stephen was a renowned executive with top-quartile private equity firm DRI Capital, and a Partner at Lumira Capital, one of Canada’s leading venture capital firms.
He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Genomics Institute and chaired its audit committee for approximately 10 years, retiring in late 2023. Meanwhile, before he began to apply his expertise within the private capital sphere, he 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, reorganisations and turnarounds, as well as strategic advisory for numerous CEOs in both the public and private arenas. He is currently acting as Interim CEO for Ontario Genomics, in addition to his Managing Partner role.
He is a much sought-after speaker in both Canada and the US.
