Team

Clive is a Managing Partner of Silverfern Co-Investment Partners^TM and brings over 20 years of senior financial and business management experience to the SCIP team. He has extensive experience in general industrial and cross-border M&A/change of control transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, LBOs and joint ventures. He has taken a company public on the NASDAQ as a Principal/Founder.

Clive is additionally the Founder & CEO of SCIP affiliate The Silverfern Group, Inc., prior to which he spent 9 years in Investment Banking on Wall Street, most recently as Head of Energy Mergers & Acquisitions for the Americas, and previously Co-Head of North American Mergers and Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank Securities in New York. Before Deutsche Bank, Clive was an Officer in the Mergers and Acquisitions department of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and he also worked in Mergers and Acquisitions for Merrill Lynch & Co.

Clive's previous experience includes his being Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary for Renouf Corp., ($1 billion public investment company), Finance Director of Ted Bates New Zealand Ltd. (public advertising agency), and Corporate Secretary of Bank of America (Australia) Limited. Clive has extensive experience in corporate financial advisory and planning services, and is intimately familiar with both public and private merger, financing and capital raising issues and solutions. He is a former Director of Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: HAUP), and has given numerous presentations on how to use Mergers & Acquisitions to maximize shareholder value to senior executives at organizations such as the Young Presidents’ Organization, The Harvard Business School Club and TEC International.

Clive is a Chartered Accountant and is also a Chartered Corporate Secretary. He is a Registered Securities Principal. He earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School, his E.C.S.P. Diploma (with Honours) from the Institut D'Etudes Politique de Paris (Sciences Po), and his Bachelor of Commerce and Administration degree from Victoria University of Wellington.