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Alex leads the firm’s strategy, origination and client relationships. His experience as a business owner and principal in acquisitions and sales informs how he approaches negotiation, transaction structure and the decisions that matter to founders.

His operating background includes outbound infrastructure and business development. At Zastre & Co., he brings that commercial experience together with capital strategy, buyer and investor engagement, and transaction execution.

Andreas Vagelatos is a technology investor, entrepreneur, and M&A professional with experience spanning venture capital, commercial banking, private credit, and strategic transactions. As a Managing Director at Zastre & Co., he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, transaction structuring, acquisition financing, strategic advisory, and private capital solutions.

Prior to joining Zastre & Co., Andreas held senior investment and operating roles across venture capital and technology, including experience with Citigroup's Commercial Bank Accelerator, Banyan Ventures, and Giga Holdings. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Aerify Media, an omnichannel analytics and targeting company acquired by Sizmek for approximately US$12 million in cash and stock. He also founded AerServ, a mobile analytics platform that was subsequently acquired by InMobi for US$90 million.

Andreas brings a principal investor and operator perspective to transaction advisory, with firsthand experience founding and scaling technology companies, evaluating investment opportunities, structuring growth capital, developing strategic partnerships, and navigating acquisitions and successful exits.

Seth Taylor is a seasoned life sciences executive, investor, and entrepreneur with over three decades of experience in entrepreneurship, sales, strategy, partnerships, M&A, and company building.

Seth is currently Managing General Partner of Vectur LLC where he focuses on building and executing growth strategies for clients.

Most recently, he was the CFO, CBO, and Co-Founder of SmartLabs. As a Principal at TSG Partners, Seth developed growth strategies and worked on a wide range of strategic mandates for leading life science companies. He was also Co-Founder of Molecularware, Inc., a life science information company.

Seth holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a PhD in Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University.

Randy brings over 20 years of cross-border experience spanning M&A, debt and equity financing, capital markets, and principal investments. He has led acquisitions, greenfield investments, and major projects ranging from tens of millions to over a billion dollars, with hands-on responsibility for strategy, transaction structuring, negotiations, definitive agreements, and execution. He has also arranged financing for numerous transactions through bank debt, acquisition financing, equity, and capital markets solutions, working independently and alongside investment banks, legal counsel, and other advisors.

Educated in finance in China and the United States, Randy has held management and executive roles with global industry leaders. He brings 16 years of North American experience, including board and presidential roles within the U.S. operations of a major multinational group. Combining extensive transaction expertise with firsthand experience in U.S. and Canadian operations, Randy advises companies on M&A, financing, and strategic growth. His international background positions him to support clients globally and navigate complex cross-border transactions.

Benjamin Alemany focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and acquisition financing for privately held companies. His experience encompasses private markets investing and transaction advisory across technology, healthcare, real estate, and lender finance.

Benjamin has participated in transactions with an aggregate value exceeding US$1 billion. Selected transaction experience includes a £250 million secondary transaction involving Aston Martin, a US$300 million luxury real estate investment, and a US$150 million lender finance transaction.

Previously, Benjamin worked at Cordillera GC, a family office, where he evaluated investment opportunities across alternative assets, venture capital, and real estate. His current responsibilities span acquisition origination, financial analysis, transaction structuring, and lender and investor engagement.

Benjamin holds a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Banking from Escuela Bancaria y Comercial in Mexico City. Benjamin holds Series 79 and Series 63 licenses. He is fluent in English and Spanish.

Brad Bruce is an executive leader with more than 20 years of experience building, scaling, and leading companies in international markets. Including being an executive VP for a multinational company. He began his leadership career in sales management, working with major real estate developers across Canada, Asia, and Mexico, where he developed a strong foundation in high-performance sales organizations and large-scale project marketing.

Brad later transitioned into the financial sector, serving as Head of Investor Relations in environments spanning real estate, private equity, and venture capital. In this capacity, he and his teams raised more than $250 million in capital and supported over $1 billion in assets across a diverse range of industries, including real estate, technology, and manufacturing. Brad was also a founding partner of a $250M institutional Co-GP real estate fund in both Canada and the US.

Brad was also invited to be a guest mentor and judge for Startup Week Vancouver and has worked with large incubators and accelerators in Canada helping many early stage startups not only get off the ground but hit major milestones of revenue growth. Many hit over $10M+ in revenue.

A specialist in sales leadership and organizational development, Brad has built and led teams ranging from small, high-impact groups to organizations of more than 200 sales professionals. As a certified sales trainer across multiple methodologies, he has personally trained more than 1,000 sales professionals throughout his career, with a focus on performance, accountability, and scalable growth systems.

Rob Boardman has participated in over $200 million in equity, debt, and M&A transactions and financing opportunities throughout his career. His experience spans venture capital, venture debt, enterprise SaaS, and energy infrastructure, encompassing investment sourcing, due diligence, financial analysis, credit underwriting, fundraising, and acquisition integration.

His completed transaction experience includes a €20 million acquisition involving BeAnywhere and SolarWinds N-able, $12 million in seed and Series A investments across technology and healthcare-related ventures, and 10 venture debt financings for SaaS businesses through Lighter Capital. More recently, as Co-Founder of AntMind, he secured $500,000 in equity financing to support the development of a 5 MW energy infrastructure project, with a 50 MW expansion application underway.

Aidan Cottrell is a Director at Savvy Capital, a Vancouver-based boutique capital advisory firm. He began raising capital for cryptocurrency companies in 2021, moved into investor relations for mining companies, then shifted to raising capital for private companies at Savvy. Over 7+ years he has originated and closed more than US$6M in retained mandates across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

He is working as a VP at Zastre & Co., where he leads business development: sourcing and qualifying capital raise and M&A opportunities, and identifying buyers for M&A deals. Zastre & Co. then structures, reviews and closes each transaction.

Cole works across capital formation, investor engagement and growth strategy, connecting founder-led businesses with prospective capital partners.

His background includes investment advisory roles at Mackie Research Capital and Haywood Securities, and public-company capital and growth work at Longtable Capital.

Sven brings experience across private equity, corporate development and international M&A, including roles at Mubadala and Allianz Capital Partners.

His work spans buyouts, turnaround investing and capital strategy across industrials, infrastructure and real assets, with senior operating and finance experience in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Jurg brings investment banking, asset management and family-office experience, including senior risk roles at BNP Paribas and Bear Stearns Asia and co-founding Silverhorn Group.

He supports alternative credit and family-office initiatives, drawing on experience in structured credit, private debt and investment opportunities across Europe and Asia.

Kyle is an entrepreneur and investor with experience in digital assets, tokenisation and capital markets infrastructure. His work includes Global Settlement Network and private-market securities infrastructure.

He supports digital asset strategy and capital formation, bringing an entrepreneurial perspective to emerging financial technology and institutional use cases.

Abhishek Velagapudi is a finance professional with experience in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate credit, and investment research across North America and Europe. As a Senior Associate at Zastre & Co., he focuses on industry research, deal sourcing, due diligence, underwriting, and transaction execution.

Previously, he evaluated over 1,500 companies at Gain.ai for investment and M&A opportunities, supporting leading firms including CVC, Ares, TPG, Apollo, and Bain Capital. At HSBC and CRISL, an S&P Global company, he worked on major credit facilities and corporate transactions, including Canadian Pacific’s US$31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, Quanta Services’ US$2.7 billion acquisition of Blattner Holding Company, and Mitsubishi HC Capital’s US$2.9 billion acquisition of CAI International.

Abhishek holds a Master of Technology in Mechanical and Automobile Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management specializing in Finance.

Ronik is a Senior Associate at Zastre & Co., supporting the firm’s private equity, private credit, and M&A mandates. He brings a data-driven approach to transaction execution, developing machine learning models, forecasting tools, and data infrastructure that enhance the firm’s origination and due diligence processes.

Previously, Ronik built data solutions at Raymond James. He holds data science certifications from Microsoft Azure, IBM, AWS, and Snowflake, and earned a degree in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from Queen’s University.

Shewmay Chang is a Financial Analyst with over 14 years of experience in corporate credit, financial modelling, valuations, and transaction support. She built her career in banking, including at Standard Chartered Bank, where she received the Best Credit Analyst award in 2023 and a Going the Extra Mile award.

Shewmay’s strengths include three-statement modelling, cash-flow and debt-service analysis, credit underwriting, financial consulting and M&A advisory. Her work includes building the analysis behind a USD 125 million facility for a cross-border energy market entry and contributing to a USD 25 million participation in a USD 1 billion sustainability-linked syndicated facility.

She has served clients across Europe, Asia, and Australia, including SMEs, corporates, and Aboriginal councils, turning complex financials into clear, decision-ready insight.

Theo Stambler is a business professional with experience in sales, business development, e-commerce, and entrepreneurship. His background includes customer acquisition, commercial strategy, market research, pricing, negotiation, distribution, and relationship management across both direct-to-consumer and business-to-business environments.

Prior to joining Zastre & Co., Theo founded and operated an international e-commerce business serving more than 1,000 customers. He also co-founded Turtletronix Inc., an electronics company focused on consumer technology products, where he oversaw product development, overseas manufacturing, logistics, marketing, distribution, and B2B sales. In that role, he developed relationships with retailers and distributors across Canada and helped grow the business through its eventual exit.

Theo is currently completing his business studies at Capilano University in Vancouver. He was also selected as a finalist in a provincial business idea competition, representing one of two applicants from his university to advance to the final round.

Teo Gandais is an Analyst at Zastre & Co., where he supports deal origination, transaction evaluation, and early-stage execution across M&A and capital-raising opportunities. Since joining in August 2026, he has sourced and qualified prospective transactions, conducted company and buyer research, coordinated discussions with business owners and executives, and prepared transaction briefs and supporting materials. His responsibilities also include coordinating non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and information requests, gathering due diligence materials, and assisting in the evaluation of strategic alternatives.

Teo’s experience includes active and preliminary engagements involving publicly traded companies, including Orrön Energy and NetraMark Corp., as well as larger privately held businesses with reported valuations exceeding $100 million. His work has included preparing project-specific NDAs and transaction materials, coordinating information requests, and supporting opportunities through initial evaluation and due diligence. His experience to date has focused on originating and advancing prospective transactions, with engagements at various stages of discussion and evaluation rather than completed deals.

Marco advises founder-led services businesses and small-cap public companies on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. He has worked on more than 30 transactions representing over $180 million in aggregate value, spanning buy-side acquisitions and sell-side mandates.

At ZKW Group, the firm's affiliated private equity and acquisition firm, Marco led deal origination, valuation, seller negotiations, and buyer diligence across acquisition opportunities. Previously, at Savvy Capital, he sourced U.S. and Canadian-listed public companies for investor awareness campaigns with budgets exceeding $5 million per transaction and supported various debt and equity capital raises.