October 25, 2007

Vancouver will still have a Blast

If you're going to get swallowed by a dragon, make sure the dragon has some fire. That was the case Wednesday when Vancouver-based interactive marketing firm Blast Radius was bought by international conglomerate WPP. Whereas Blast Radius had good numbers -- 350 employees, six offices in four countries, and revenues of $41.8 million Cdn in 2006 -- new parent WPP has more than 100,000 employees, 2,000 offices in 106 countries, and 2006 revenues of $11.7 billion Cdn.

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January 9, 2006

David Chapman selected for BIV's Top 40 under 40 club.

Destiny is what you make of it. Ask David Chapman. After eight years as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch Canada, and a posting as its group head for the B.C. region, Chapman walked away and in April 2001 became the CEO for energy technology company Greenlight Power Technologies.

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October 18, 2004

Rusty Goepel chosen in the top 100 influential business people.

Financier Rusty Goepel’s interests cover a range of businesses and endeavours. His name is wedded to the changes that transformed Vancouver brokerages in the late 1990s. As CEO, he guided Goepel Shields & Partners Inc. through its 1998 merger with McDermid St. Lawrence Securities Ltd. to become Goepel McDermid, which grew to have $3.5 billion in assets under management.

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September 22, 2004

Yellow Point views its success through Prism: Its first investment is a $7M stake in a medical firm.

The investment team at Yellow Point Equity Partners, a newly formed Vancouver-based private equity fund, looked at about 100 proposals before settling on its first investment: a $7-million stake in Prism Medical Ltd., a publicly listed, Ontario-based company that makes equipment to help the mobile-impaired.

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September 21, 2004

B.C. venture capital pool deepens: New Yellow Point 1 fund to focus on Western Canada.

B.C.’s financing climate continued to heat up last week, with a new private equity firm’s first deal and the closing of a record-setting fund. Vancouver’s Yellow Point Equity Partners LP – which features impressive founders and focuses on later-stage private companies – unveiled the debut deal under its inaugural fund, Yellow Point 1.

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