Dan Ardiel is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Rise Capital. He is responsible for overseeing all deal origination, capital management, investor relations, client management and daily operations.
Dan has 35 years of sales and marketing experience in various management and executive roles and 14 years of experience in managing receivable factoring and asset backed lending portfolios. His deep relationships within the lending and Canadian Energy industry are invaluable in generating deal flow where he has a reputation of delivering creative and practical deal structures that delivers value to both investors and clients.
Previously Dan was a founding shareholder and vetted promotor with the TSXV taking Maxen Petroleum Inc. (now Pan Orient Energy Corp.) and several others through the go-public process.
Cam Bawol is a Co-Founder and Director of Rise Capital. He brings over 20 years of capital markets, deal structuring, lending, accounting and business advisory experience.
Cam is the Director of Business Development in the Calgary Region for MNP where he creates value and opportunities for the firm’s existing and new clients. Cam articled at MNP in 2007 – 2010 and rejoined the firm in 2017 as a Vice President in MNP Corporate Finance’s division focused on sell-side mandates. He then was tasked with overseeing Calgary’s cloud accounting service line and co-led their External Financial Advisory practise providing fractional CFO services to a variety of clients. Between 2010 and 2017 Cam held several CFO and Executive positions in both public and private companies.
Cam is a Chartered Professional Accountants (Alberta) and qualified in 2010.
Michael Warrington is the Vice President, Finance and Operations. Michael is responsible for investor relations, credit and risk management, governance, regulatory and financial reporting.
Prior to joining Rise, Michael had 30+ years of experience in various executive roles for multi-national and brand name organizations. The last 8 years was spent leading a private equity, receivable factoring, and asset back lending firm.
Michael holds a Degree in Business Administration from York University and holds a CPA, CMA designation.
Daniel Eden is the Vice President of Leasing for Rise Capital Leasing Inc. Daniel is responsible for maintaining relationships with lenders, deal origination and structuring and due diligence. Daniel has 12 years of experience in business development and deal structuring in commercial finance in asset backed lending as is sought after for his reputation for client service knowledge in the heavy truck and trailer industry.
Daniel holds a degree in Business Management Majoring in Finance with a Minor in Social Responsibility from the University of Lethbridge. As well he also holds a Business Administration Diploma Majoring in Financial Services with Southern Alberta Institute Technology.
Dean Clark is responsible for identifying prospects and growing Rise Capital’s portfolio with quality clients. Dean brings over 25 years of business and finance experience across Canada, including roles in corporate finance, M&A advisory, and private equity. As Manager Client Relations at Rise Capital since 2023, he delivers fast, flexible capital solutions.
Dean founded his advisory firm in 1999, has worked with mid-market M&A firms and boutique investment banks, and previously managed a regional office for an international engineering firm.
He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors, 1986) from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the University of Calgary (1997).
Diane Mitchell is the Office Manger at Rise Capital. Diane brings vast experience in all facets of office management and has held key positions supporting senior management.
Diane’s organization skills brings Rise strong governance as she is responsible for preparing and managing Rise’s client’s loan and security documents. Diane works with Rise’s clients and their funding needs and supports management with due diligence.
Diane holds a Diploma in Accounting from the accredited International School of Correspondence.
Dan is a founding partner with RISE Capital. Previously he was Vice President of Corporate Development at an oilfield services company and prior to that Vice-President of a Calgary based venture capital firm. Mr. Ardiel was a founding shareholder of Maxen Petroleum Inc. (now Pan Orient Energy Corp.).
Mobile: 403-608-1002
Email: dan@risecapital.ca
