Robert Olsen

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About Robert Olsen

Robert Olsen is the Head of Private Capital at Nicola Wealth. Robert is responsible for scaling the existing private capital function, developing and growing the talent on the team and helping to determine asset mix for Private capital. He also Chairs the Investment Committee and assists in creating additional private capital strategies for the business. Robert has 20 years of investing experience and another 15 years of advisory experience. Robert has directly acquired or invested equity and private debt in over 75 private and public companies in a variety of industries and helped advise approximately 100 mid and large sized companies with respect to buy side and sell side opportunities and capital raising. Prior to joining Nicola Wealth, Robert spent 15 years at Deloitte Canada where he was a Vice Chair and led its Canadian Private Equity segment, bringing all that Deloitte has to offer to this sector. His career at Deloitte also included leading its Corporate Finance practice and as well as creating its Capital Advisory business. In these roles, Robert specialized in sell-side mergers and acquisitions, as well as capital advisory to help companies raise investment capital and evaluate their financing options. Previous to Deloitte, Robert spent 20 years split between Goldman Sachs and a merchant banking group. At Goldman, he helped found and lead its on balance sheet investing business for Canada where he invested senior debt, mezzanine and 2nd lien debt, as well as minority equity and control equity into North American public and private businesses. Previously, Robert was a founding partner of a merchant banking group where he raised three pooled private debt and minority equity funds and used them to acquire mid market companies in a variety of industries. Robert received a community service award in 2011 for his work with the Shaw Festival from Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. He was also a former world ranked amateur boxer representing Canada throughout the globe. Robert has sat on the Board of over 30 companies including acting as Chairman of 2 publicly listed businesses. rolsen@nicolawealth.com