Financing the Future
Cascadia Capital is a national investment bank for emerging growth, business services and manufacturing companies.
Based in Seattle, Cascadia focuses on nine key market sectors: sustainable industries, information technology, communications, Internet new media, consumer & retail, security & defense, business services & manufacturing, transportation & logistics or industrial.
The firm, which is anchored by a senior management team, stresses its strong character, deep expertise and winning culture. Its over-arching goal is to help finance the future by partnering with clients on the path to prosperity.
Cascadia has a solid and steady track record of facilitating significant transactions in both M&A and corporate finance. But it is also an innovative thought leader - especially when it comes to issues concerning The New Energy Economy.
The firm's three top bankers in sustainable industries - Chairman / CEO Michael Butler, Ted Bernhard and Jamie Boyd - see major promise ahead for eco materials, agriculture, transportation and manufacturing, as well as recycling / waste, energy, air quality and the environment, water / wastewater and green building and construction.
Butler, Bernhard and Boyd also believe that financing activity in the sustainable sectors will continue to expand over the next 12 months as these quintessential and dynamic 21st century market opportunities take even greater form and shape.
Cascadia's best analysis indicates that The New Energy Economy will fare reasonably well if the tide turns and a significant recession washes over us. The good news is that any setback will be temporary - even if there's a deep recession that slows sustainable industries. The firm believes that there is a 20-30 year secular uptrend waiting for renewable energy enterprises on the other side of the downturn.
A recession triggered, in part, by higher oil or fossil fuel prices could actually spur investors, executives and entrepreneurs into action. The result: new technology, new companies and new jobs that will help ward off a downturn and set the stage for 21st century growth.
So, despite economic cross-currents and the possibility of a macro correction, Cascadia's bottom-line view is that the future remains bright green for the next several decades.
