Kinetic Capital Partners | Investment Team

The Investment Team has a track record of successes with the “Value for Growth” approach and “Break-up Value” approach, specific opportunistic public market investments, and later stage venture capital investments. The Investment Team offers an effective network of connections with access to attractive transaction opportunities in these areas.

The Investment Team provides complementary backgrounds in mergers and acquisitions, private company operations and both public company and private company investment activity.

Mr. Dallas Ross.
Mr. Ross is a partner and founder of Kinetic Capital Partners. Mr. Ross was previously Managing Director, Investment Banking and, prior to that, Managing Director, Mergers & Acquisitions with ScotiaMcLeod Inc. where he started in 1985. Most of his investment banking career was spent in Toronto. He played an integral role in transactions such as the $525 million takeover of B.C. Sugar and subsequent $415 million spin-out of Rogers Sugar undertaken for ONEX Corporation and Belkorp; the $704 million monetization of Westshore Terminals by Westar Group undertaken for The Jim Pattison Group; the FutureShop.com LP financing on behalf of Future Shop; the $3.2 billion restructuring of Cadillac Fairview on behalf of the Board of Directors; the $3.5 billion takeover of McLean Hunter for Rogers Communications; and the subsequent $100 million sale of McLean Hunter’s printing operations to GTC Transcontinental and Quebecor; the evaluation and acquisition of each of Royal Trust and National Trust for the Bank of Nova Scotia; the monetization of United Dominion Industries via exchangeable debentures on behalf of Canadian Pacific; the acquisition of Dominion Stores by Ravelston/Hollinger; acquisition of Hiram Walker Gooderman Worts, Gulf Canada Resources, Consumers Gas and Abitibi Price on behalf of Olympia & York; and the minority buyout of Marks & Spencer Canada on behalf of Marks & Spencer PLC, among many other transactions.

Mr. Frank Barker.
Mr. Barker is a partner and founder of Kinetic Capital Partners and previously was Vice-President of Finance for Bartrac Holdings Ltd. from 1986. He assisted Bartrac in divesting its Finning holding and has since developed and executed a long-range strategic plan to diversify Bartrac’s corporate investments. During his tenure, the assets under his direction have grown at an annual compound rate of approximately 20%. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Barker was acting Chairman and CEO of Canlan Ice Sports Corp., where he re-configured operations by spinning off non-core assets, changing management and restructuring the Company’s finances. Mr. Barker was an active director of Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation from 1988 to 1997 where he worked with his partners to replace senior management, implement an extensive capital expenditure program and negotiate its ultimate sale in 1997 at a considerable profit. Mr. Barker was a Director of Courage Energy Inc. from 1996 to 2001 when the company was taken private in a transaction that netted a five-fold return on capital for its shareholders.

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