Bill Bennett
Senior Marketing/Financial Consultant

Focus

• Raising Venture and Angel Capital

• Marketing and Sales Management

• Export Sales Strategy

Experience:

Bill Bennett has a wealth of experience and success spanning over twenty years in business – but most important, is his success as the Vice President/Director Pacific Forum Inc. – The International Business and Investment Expositions, in Vancouver, BC.

Bill staged six consecutive International Business and Investment Expositions, the largest and most successful of its kind in Canada at that time.

Over this six year period his venture capital exposition was instrumental in matching hundreds of different companies in Canada, US, Mexico, Europe and Australia, resulting  in excess of $1 Billion of potential Venture Capital. By matching these companies with investors, Bill was credited with creating numerous profitable ventures. This also comprised more than 10,000 entrepreneurs from 20 different countries with programs including investments seminars, networking receptions and an investment center. 

He has an extensive background in the Hotel and food services industry also structuring and marketing franchises in the hospitality industry as well as providing the same structure for other companies.

Bill has traveled extensively in North America and has met and spoken with numerous Venture Capital groups, technology development groups and organizations as well as local and State Governments in the US.

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"In my experience of matching companies with investors from different countries around the world resulting in creating North America largest Venture Capital exposition, and more recently found the following commonality;

• Emerging companies are constrained in their growth programs by lack of capital in their early stages.
• These companies are finding it increasing difficult to raise equity capital. 
• One of the main reasons cited by presidents and owners of these companies is the communication and rationalization of the company's value proposition  to investors.
• Targeting the appropriate Venture and Angel Capital for the industry and the company.

I found that understanding the present and future investment criteria which these companies need to meet, and communicating these to my clients is critical part of the success in raising equity finance.

The old adage, "first in best dressed" has never been more true in today's quest for equity finance. The companies that can prepare themselves for a high standard of due diligence by the investor increase their probability of success exponentially. Similar to the Darwinian theory of "survival of the fittest."