Managing Director

Ted Nash is a strategist and financial professional with decades of mobilizing teams to deliver projects of significant organizational impact. He presently devotes most of his time to companies acquired since 2014. Prior to founding Nash & Company in 2013, he ran the merchant bank of a leading Canadian chartered bank with responsibility for a $1.8 billion investment portfolio while concurrently leading the institution’s corporate-development group. During his seven years in risk capital, he made 20 investments worth approximately $1.3 billion which involved partnering with such financial groups as Apax, Blackstone, Carlyle, Colony Capital, and the largest pension funds in Canada. As a manager, Mr. Nash served on the organization’s wholesale- and retail-banking executive committees.

His advisory career included running the market-leading and award-winning practice in mergers and acquisitions for the same institution and working as a management consultant for a leading American firm. He was directly involved with close to 100 announced M&A transactions with a combined enterprise value of over $180 billion. Mr. Nash has been based on three continents and provided advice to many companies that included Bell Canada, Darden Restaurants, John Labatt, McCain Foods, Mitsubishi, PrimeWest Energy, Rio Tinto, Scott’s Hospitality, and Whitbread.

Mr. Nash has also served as a corporate director and presently sits on the boards of Pizza Pizza Royalty Corporation and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, in the latter case chairing the Risk and Audit Committee. He was previously a member of the boards of CIBC Mellon and Maple Group Acquisition Corporation.

He graduated with his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, MA from the University of Pennsylvania and B Comm from Queen’s University. He also qualified as a CPA, CMA. His time outside of work is spent with his family and charitable pursuits, which have included serving as Chairman of Prostate Cancer Canada, Director of the CIBC Children’s Foundation, Member of the United Way’s Major Individual Giving Cabinet in Greater Toronto, Member of Covenant House Toronto's Corporate Relations Committee, and Treasurer of the Church of St. Paul.