Nolan Bederman

Nolan Bederman has a long history of successfully investing in North American growth companies and partnering with management teams to help companies optimize organic growth and acquisition-based expansion. He is the founder and managing partner of private equity fund Bederman Capital Corp., which invests in several North American business and consumer service companies. As Chair of these companies, he provides strategic direction and management development.

To extend Bederman Capital’s investment business, in 2018 Nolan formalized a partnership with New York-based Reynolds Channel Equity Partners, a growth-oriented private equity investment fund.

Before founding Bederman Capital in 2013, Nolan was a co-founding partner of Genuity Capital Partners, a North American mid-market private equity fund focused primarily on specialty consumer and business services. From 2002 to 2004 he served as Executive Director in private equity at CIBC Capital Partners. Prior to that, he was a Vice-President in the U.S. mergers and acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch & Co., focusing on advising global companies in the capital/consumer goods, transportation, food and pharmaceutical sectors.

Nolan holds a Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration from the University of Toronto, where he received the Gold Medal for graduating first in his class. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Western University, where he was awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for graduating first in his class within the Economics department as well as the Faculty of Social Science. 

Outside of his core investing activities, Nolan currently serves as an independent director of Air Wisconsin, a regional air carrier in the United States operating a fleet of jets for American Airlines, as well as other board positions. In 2017 and 2018, as a volunteer member of the Ontario Provincial Finance Committee, he helped the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario develop a finance platform for its 2018 election. He serves as a mentor in the Leadership, Exploration, Advice, Development and Success program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Business.