Startup & Growth Management - EVP / Director, Finance & OPS — Mitsui Nevitt Capital Corporation
Challenge: Form, finance, launch, and lead a successful Merchant Bank.
Actions: Established relationships — combined with knowledge of the Asian business community and culture — became the key factors supporting this orchestration of an extremely valuable association of foreign partners.
I raised start-up capital and established this new company within Mitsui & Company (the largest Japanese trading company, with assets of $60 billion) by first closing a car carrier leverage lease with Fuji (a major Japanese Bank), and then bringing Mr. Peter K. Nevitt (chairman of the leasing group at Bank of America) into the transaction to help with an introduction to Mitsui.
Results: Grew company to $1.5 billion in assets — with profitable bottom line every year of operation — by providing strong business and financial leadership.
Analysis: Because they were foreign partners, trust and honesty was forefront to their consideration of doing business. Building and leveraging relationships to finance businesses is my greatest strength and I have been successful in raising large amounts of capital based on my ideas, reputation, and integrity.
