John Travaglini

Chief Executive Officer

John is a technology and capital markets entrepreneur, and a highly experienced M&A professional. Prior to founding 4Front Capital Partners, he owned a mid market investment and merchant banking consulting firm based out of Toronto, Ontario. In this role John consulted to large multinationals, funds and family offices worldwide on wealth preservation, mergers and acquisitions and International Investments. Prior to that John co-owned an investment bank with offices in Toronto, London, Singapore and Sydney Australia. This company did both public and private transactions totaling over $250 million.

John co-founded a systems integration company which had revenues of over $55 Million. John has held sales positions with Sun Microsystems, Unisys Corporation.

John has held board positions and executive management positions in both public and private companies in Canada and abroad. He holds an Honors Degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and is a graduate of the Quantum Shift Executive Management program sponsored by KPMG and Ivey School of Business.

Raj Natarajan

Partner

Raj is a Vice President within our investment banking group. He joined 4Front Capital Partners in summer of 2011 after completing his MBA at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Prior to undertaking his MBA, Raj founded and managed a company that used trenchless technology to install telecommunication cables.

Before starting his own firm, Raj worked for KLA-Tencore in India. As an Applications Engineer in KLA-Tencor, Raj provided technical consultation in 5 countries to some of world’s largest semiconductor companies.

Raj holds an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering and is currently pursuing his CFA.

Mark Kennedy

Managing Director

Mark joined 4Front Capital Partners in the fall of 2017.  Mark is a seasoned banking and capital markets professional with extensive experience and a demonstrated ability to strategize, analyze numbers and assess risk. His work experience includes twenty years with the large Canadian banks in banking, corporate finance and investment research, six years with equity boutiques in institutional equity sales and four years in the finance function (corporate
development and CFO) of a private Green-tech startup overseeing several capital raising rounds. Mark has deal experience in numerous resource and industrial sectors including forest products, energy and energy services, agriculture, mining, utilities, manufacturing and real estate.

Mark holds an Honors Degree in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Masters of Business Administration from York University.

Peter Chayson

Director

Peter is a technology-oriented capital market and finance professional in multiple industries with experience in corporate finance works, including debt and equity fundraisings, follow-on offerings, IPO supporting processes, as well as M&As and joint ventures. He also has extensive experience in being CFO and Finance Director for the past fifteen years with large conglomerate groups in Asia, including Kino Group, Berlian Laju Tanker Group and CH Offshore Pte Ltd. He raised several capital raising rounds in the past and has been involved in several sizable M&A projects. He worked at Arthur Andersen in their Melbourne office as well as PwC Corporate Finance & Investment Banking Pte Ltd in Singapore as Assistant Manager for eight years in his early career. Peter has deal experience in different industries including shipping, forest products, manufacturing, distribution, start-ups, software-as-a-service, agriculture, as well as energy and energy services. 

He holds an Executive Development Program Certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, an MBA from Monash University (Australia), a Post Graduate Diploma in Banking and Finance from Monash University (Australia) and a Bachelor of Science in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University (England). He is currently pursuing his CFA.