About Us
Daniel Khazzam
Daniel grew up in Montreal. As a teenager, he noticed the lack of food and beverage options at the basketball camp he went to each summer, and, after receiving the camp owner’s blessing, he opened a small canteen selling snacks and drinks to his fellow campers. This early exposure to the world of entrepreneurship ingrained a desire to one day run his own business.
After college, where he studied business and finance, Daniel worked in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, with a focus on M&A advisory and financing for companies in the industrials sector.
Wanting to return to a more entrepreneurial environment, Daniel joined a small software company in Toronto as President and helped scale the company from $5 million to $12 million in revenue, and from 20 to 50 employees. Daniel found the experience of running and growing a small business to be incredibly rewarding, and something he wanted to do again.
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Daniel received his MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School, and now resides in
New York City, where he is focused full-time on finding the right business and owner to work with.
Ben Rapaport
Ben grew up in New York City, where he still lives with his wife and two-year old son. After attending college at NYU Stern, Ben worked in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey, specializing in software, media and sports.
Ben later joined Morgan Stanley Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity fund, where he worked on deals in healthcare contract manufacturing and early childhood education. Following that experience, he joined Apax Partners as a software investor, deploying billions of capital into US and international enterprise software companies, and Orkila Capital, where he supported a broad investment portfolio ranging from music software and craft breweries to global triathlons and medical cannabis.
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Throughout Ben’s career, he has gained a strong and diverse operational and strategic skillset working closely with management teams on business strategy, financial oversight, and day-to-day decision making.​