Founders Advantage Capital

Stephen has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Group West Corporation, an investment company founded by Stephen since January 1996. Stephen served as Senior Vice President of Business Development of Alaris Royalty Corp. from July 2008 until March 2015. His role with Alaris was to create and build relationships with all sources of investment leads. In 2004, Stephen co-founded Alaris IGF Corp., the general partner of Alaris Income Growth Fund L.P., which invested in a diversified portfolio of private businesses in exchange for royalties or distributions from the portfolio companies, with the principal objective of generating stable and predictable cash flows for dividend payments to its securityholders. From 2004 to 2008, Stephen oversaw the business development efforts of Alaris IGF Corp. and increased the company’s presence among the advisory referral networks across North America. In July 2008, Alaris Royalty Corp. acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding units of Alaris Income Growth Fund L.P. and all of the outstanding shares of Alaris IGF Corp.

Stephen holds an Honours degree in Business Administration.

James is a corporate and securities lawyer with over 15 years of experience. James has served as General Counsel for Olympia Financial Group Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Olympia Trust Company (a non-deposit taking trust company) for the last six years and was a partner of an international law firm prior thereto. In addition, James serves as a director of Paramount Resources Ltd. (a publicly-traded energy company).

James holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Ms. Litoski is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 15 years’ experience in a variety of industries including transportation, utilities, financial services and retail. Ms. Litoski’s prior roles have included Vice President, Controller for Dollar Financial Group (2014 – present) which operates a network of more than 800 alternative financial services locations across North America; Vice President, Finance and Controller for ENMAX Corporation (2008 – 2014), a Calgary-based utility company; Chief Financial Officer of First Canada, a Canadian transportation company (2005 – 2008); Controller of RST Industries (2001-2005), a division of JD Irving.

Ms. Litoski holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Alberta and became a qualified Chartered Accountant in 1997.  She served as Audit Manager with KPMG LLP before transitioning into private industry in 2001.  In addition to holding executive roles, Ms. Litoski has several years’ experience teaching accounting, tax and management courses at the University of New Brunswick and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta. She has also had reoccurring speaking engagements with the Strategy Institute and Federated Press on accounting and leadership topics.

Amar leads FAC’s investor relations and capital raising initiatives, participates in transaction related due diligence and helps build and maintain relationships to source investment opportunities. Prior to joining FAC, Amar worked in Investment Banking with Scotiabank’s Diversified Industries Group where he had senior roles on the execution of numerous mandates with both strategic operators and financial sponsors across debt and equity financings and Mergers & Acquisitions. Amar also spent several years in Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking and Corporate Credit with both Royal Bank of Canada and ATB Financial.

Amar holds an MBA from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree (Finance & International Business) from Simon Fraser University.

Harpreet leads FAC’s business development initiatives, which includes building and maintaining relationships to source investment opportunities, transaction related due diligence, and overseeing the life cycle of acquisitions from sourcing to deal closing. Prior to joining FAC, Harpreet worked as a Vice President in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Global Commercial Banking team where he played a leading role in the credit approval process for financial sponsors and strategic operators. Harpreet also worked in Commercial and Corporate Banking with ATB Financial. Prior to that, Harpreet worked in Investment Banking with the Diversified Industries Groups at both BMO Capital Markets and CIBC World Markets, where he was actively involved in debt and equity financings, and mergers & acquisitions.

Harpreet holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, an MBA from the University of Toronto and a BSc (Finance) from Canisius College, where he played NCAA Division I baseball.