OUR TEAM
Our consulting team is led by Las Vegas-based Larry Bortles and Ontario, Canada-based Paul Hart.
Larry Bortles
Larry’s professional passion is assisting entrepreneurs raise the equity and debt capital they require to commence or enhance their business ventures, having already personally raised over $87 million of equity for 20 different ventures. During the course of this work, he created limited partnerships coupled with Reg D PPM offerings that incorporate his innovative venture-specific economic modelling to project alternate potential investor returns, which can be very impressive to potential investors.
He’s also accomplished a multitude of feasibility analyses, development management and financing packages for complex development projects exceeding $15 billion in current value. A portion of the feasibility work was accomplished when Larry was the Manager for the Hawaii-based Real Estate Consulting Department of one of the world’s largest CPA and consulting companies – KPMG’s predecessor firm, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
And, in 2009, as the Chairman of Shanghai-based Sustainable Energy Asia Ltd Larry led a team of Chinese professionals to determine the feasibility of an innovative “green energy” system for capturing and converting existing coal mine methane resources to energy, thereby reducing greenhouse gases and creating valuable and salable carbon credits while generating electricity for sale back to the energy-hungry mine operations.
Education:
BA Economics – Cornell University
MBA – Harvard Business School
Paul Hart
As a CEO, CFO, Board Director, Investor and Entrepreneur, Paul brings to BortlesConsult many years of Board and C-level corporate experience to corporate finance, M+A and debt and equity fund-raising in Canada, the United States and Europe. Paul has raised over $250 million in equity and debt capital over his career.
He has held senior positions in companies in the technology, insurance, banking and venture capital industries and driven the growth of companies in healthcare, renewable energy, medical cannabis, genomics, fintech and the Internet of Things.
Recently Paul completed the course “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he now regularly integrates AI tools within his work.
Education:
Honors BA – Queens University
MBA Finance – Queens University
Chartered Accounting Designation at Price Waterhouse Coopers
Chartered Director – McMasters University