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Bill Kostenko, Managing Partner has more than 25 years of experience and is a recognized expert in advising and managing marketing and communications firms. Since 1990, he has helped clients implement transactions involving divestment, acquisition and financing solutions. He has also been involved in numerous crisis situations in a leadership role.
From 1986 to 1990, Bill was the Chief Financial Officer and a significant shareholder in Sherwood, a holding company with 14 operating subsidiaries in the communications industry. Bill negotiated the divestment and sale of several subsidiaries of Sherwood during the late 1980's.
Prior to Sherwood, Bill held senior financial management positions with a number of manufacturing and technology based companies including Genesis Microchip, Mitel, Rolm Canada and Rockwell International.
Bill serves on several private and public company boards. He has an M.B.A. in finance from McMaster University as well as a B.A. in Economics.
PERRY MIELE
Chairman & Managing Partner
BILL KOSTENKO
Vice Chairman &
Managing Partner
ANDREA NICKEL
Managing Partner
MIKE SIFTON
Partner
Perry Miele, Chairman and Managing Partner has over 20 years of experience in the advertising and marketing industry and has earned a reputation as a strategic builder of businesses.
Since 2006, Perry has served as the Executive Chairman of Budco, a marketing and fulfillment company located in Detroit servicing the country's largest Fortune 100 Companies.
Perry began his career with the Canadian federal government, rising to the position of Chief of Staff to the Minister of International Trade during the NAFTA negotiations. In 1987, Perry became a partner of the Gingko Group, an integrated marketing services company, located in Toronto. At Gingko, Perry grew the company's annual revenues from $1 million to $10 million. In 1998, Gingko merged with DraftWorldwide (a subsidiary of Interpublic Group) and in 1999 Perry joined the management team of DraftWorldwide as the President of the International Group. In that position, Perry was responsible for 36 offices operating in 24 countries and led the international expansion with a combination of strategic acquisitions and organic growth. Over three years, he led over $80 million in acquisitions which grew revenue from $70 million to $140 million.
Perry is a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Perry has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario.
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Andrea Nickel, Partner has more than ten years experience in the US and Canada, in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and turnarounds. She has worked with entrepreneurial companies in a wide range of industries including marketing and communications, manufacturing, food and beverage and technology.
Since joining Beringer in 2002, she has immersed herself in the marketing and communications industry and has developed Beringer's proprietary industry knowledgebase. She has advised more than 35 marketing and communications companies and brings her strategic planning capabilities to Beringer's clients and portfolio companies.
Prior to Beringer, Andrea worked as a consultant for Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm. Andrea has also worked for a food ingredients manufacturing company to restructure operations. She began her career in the information technology industry launching and marketing software products.
Andrea has an MBA in Private Equity from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from McGill University .
Mike Sifton, Managing Partner has spent his life around the media business, with over 20 years of direct experience in the Canadian newspaper industry.
Prior to joining Beringer, Mike was President and Chief Executive Office of Sun Media, Canada's largest newspaper publisher by household penetration and reach. At Sun Media, Mike ensured the smooth integration of Osprey Media which had been acquired by Sun Media in 2007. Mike led the formation of Osprey Media Group in 2001, and with investments from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Scotia Merchant Capital acquired 29 Ontario daily and non-daily newspapers from Hollinger Canadian Newspapers. Osprey was taken public in 2004 as Osprey Media Income Fund with a $200 million IPO. As President & CEO of Osprey Media, Mike completed a number of other acquisitions of Ontario community newspapers and magazines, growing the company's portfolio to 20 daily newspapers, 43 non-daily newspapers and various magazines across Ontario.
Prior to forming Osprey, Mike was President of Hollinger Canadian Newspapers L.P. and President and CEO of family-owned Armadale Communications.
Mike is currently Chairman of The Canadian Press (his third tenure). He has also been a director of the Canadian Newspaper Association and the Newspaper Audience Databank. Mike holds a B. Comm (Honours) from Queen's University.
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TONY ROBBINS
Partner
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Tony Robbins is an entrepreneur, best selling author, philanthropist, and the nations #1 Life and Business Strategist. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations and organizational turnaround, he has served as an advisor to leaders around the world for more than 39 years. Author of five internationally bestselling books, including the recent New York Times #1 best-seller MONEY: MASTER THE GAME, Mr. Robbins has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries through his audio, video and life training programs. He created the #1 personal and professional development program of all time, and more than 4 million people have attended his live seminars.
Mr. Robbins is the chairman of a holding company comprised of more than a dozen privately held businesses with combined sales exceeding $5 billion a year. He has been honored by Accenture as one of the "Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the World"; by Harvard Business Press as one of the "Top 200 Business Gurus"; and by American Express as one of the "Top Six Business Leaders in the World" to coach its entrepreneurial clients. Fortune’s recent cover article named him the “CEO Whisperer,” and he was most recently named in the top 50 of Worth Magazine’s 100 most powerful people in global finance.
In his mission to continually impact the lives of millions, Robbins has made headlines by partnering and lending his voice to disruptive companies in the financial services arena. His company America's Best 401k, a full service 401k solution, is making waves by providing free side-by-side fee comparisons to business owners to see just how much they are really paying in fees. They are also pioneering unique guaranteed income solutions for plan participants entering retirement. Mr. Robbins is also a major advocate for Portfolio CheckUp, a service that is disrupting the brokerage industry by providing a free online analysis of your investment accounts and then connecting you to a fee based fiduciary advisor that is required by law to put client's best interests first. He is also the founder of Global Accounting Advisors, which provides much needed outsourced CFO for small business owners in 8 countries around the world.
As a philanthropist, Mr. Robbins feeds 4 million people per year in 56 countries. He has also initiated programs in more than 1,500 schools, 700 prisons, and 50,000 service organizations and shelters. He provides fresh water to 100,000 people a day in India in order to fight the number one killer of children in that country-waterborne diseases. Last year he raised the stakes: In order to honor those who helped his family during tough times, he personally provided 59 million meals to people in the USA, and matched funds to feed 100 million in 2015 alone through his partnership from Feeding America.
BRIAN F. MARTIN
Vice Chairman &
Managing Partner
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