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Khaled Bitar, B.Sc., CBI
kbitar@ottawabusinessadvisors.com
For over 17 years, Khaled has advised clients as an M&A Intermediary. His expertise lies in operational & financial analysis, valuation, and deal structuring. Khaled possesses domestic and overseas business experience with years of hands-on activity in the manufacturing, sales, and consulting industries.
Having closed transactions of varying sizes within different sectors, he provides relevant insight into the key factors contributing to successful negotiations.
Khaled earned a CBI (Certified Business Intermediary) designation from the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) in 2009, and is currently a Lifetime CBI. He is also a Fellow of the IBBA, and served 3 years as a director of IBBA’s Canadian Chapter.
Khaled has held many sales and executive positions such as Branch Manager for a multinational company and VP Sales & Marketing at two global technology companies. In addition, he has owned and managed businesses in exporting and international consulting, which respectively facilitated the sale of North American products to overseas customers and assisted different companies in penetrating or managing new markets.
Khaled has worked abroad for many years and traveled to countries on 5 continents working with different customers and their varying criteria, backgrounds, and cultures.
Khaled was also a part-time Professor teaching International Business courses at Algonquin College School of Business in Ottawa for 6 years. Additional noteworthy and academic accomplishments include; a B.Sc. in Chemistry, a Diploma with Distinction from Carleton University Sprott School of Business in International Trade Training, and as a public speaker at trade and industry functions. Khaled is fluent in English and Arabic, with a basic knowledge of French.
Art Howarth, B.Comp-Sci
ahowarth@ottawabusinessadvisors.com
During his 30+ year career, Art has experience within a diverse set of public, private, and entrepreneurial roles spanning multiple continents and market areas. He has founded businesses, led teams and been engaged with business in Asia, Europe, and North America. In addition, has also held positions on private and public company boards.
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Art was involved in 75 acquisitions and over 100 investments at Cisco Systems. As a leader of the Corporate Development Technology Group, his responsibilities covered technology strategy, investment portfolio technology extraction, technical due diligence for acquisitions/investments, and Intellectual Property (IP) evaluations. Art participated in upper-market corporate M&A and assisted smaller companies with investment, exits, strategy, and funding models.
Through his career he’s built customer relationships with Fortune 100 companies and gathered particular expertise in the Oil & Gas, Mining, Aerospace, and Pharmaceutical industries. He has many years of experience as an entrepreneur having founded multiple businesses.
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Additional noteworthy mentions — Holder of 23 patents; Actively involved with the Canadian Venture and Technology community and top-tier universities to develop, maturate and deliver innovative companies/technologies; Holds a Degree in Computer Science degree from Concordia University.