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Biography
Early life
He graduated from the
University of British Columbia
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in
Vancouver
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, British Columbia, Canada and received an M.B.A. from the
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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in
Palo Alto, California
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Th ...
. He was a member of the
Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
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The CICA developed and supported account ...
.
Career
He worked at
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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It is the second-largest professional services network in the world and is one of the Big Four accounting firms, alon ...
and
BNP Paribas
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. From 2002 to 2007, he was Managing Director of Friend Skoler & Co., a $231 million buyout fund specializing in consumer products and business services companies. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Manhattan Partners.
He sits on the Board of Directors of
Academi
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