Travis Jay Dowle

Lions Investment Management (LIM) employs an active, flexible and opportunistic investment strategy that seeks to generate long-term positive returns across a variety of market environments, while minimizing risk. The firm utilizes a bottom-up security selection approach that focuses on event-driven situations, undervalued securities and special situations. In managing their funds, LIM uses 4 main strategies: (1) merger arbitrage (2) long positions with targeted events/catalysts (3) short positions with targeted events/catalysts and (4) pair trades. The firm looks for investment opportunities in which they can clearly identify an expected catalyst that will generate a change in a security's price. LIM invests primarily in the stocks of US and Canadian companies, with a small/mid-cap bias.

Provides brokerage services

Gibralt focuses on investments that span the globe, but with a specific presence in North America. Gibralt's opportunistic strategy targets attractive absolute returns. These strategies may exhibit short term volatility, exposure to a less liquid set of investments and varying correlation to equity, credit and interest rate markets. They also may exhibit a higher degree of manager concentration relative to broadly diversified strategies in order to emphasize particularly attractive current market opportunities.

Functions as a College/University

SCCP provides mezzanine debt and equity financing to middle-market companies throughout Canada and the Western and Midwestern US. The firm focuses on a wide range of industries including healthcare, industrial products and technology. They look for companies with exceptional management teams, leading and defensible market positions, large and well-defined market opportunities and strong financial disciplines. SCCP participates in management buy-outs and buy-ins, acquisitions financings, shareholder successions, restructurings, recapitalizations, expansion capital financings and bridge financings. Investments are typically made in the form of equity or equity-like instruments, mezzanine loans, bridge loans or a combination of these.

Maxam is an active, opportunistic manager that seeks to generate strong risk-adjusted returns for their clients. The firm believes that an active, opportunistic, and flexible approach to investing will enable them to generate long-term positive returns for their clients through a variety of market environments. They utilize alternative strategies to generate returns and actively manage risk. Maxam’s goal is to provide strong risk-adjusted returns to investors, which remains core to the investment philosophy and approach today.