
Henley Capital Corporation is a registered limited market dealer in Ontario specializing in mergers and acquisitions, financing and advisory investment banking services to both public and private companies with particular emphasis in the information technology, communications and media, biotechnology, applied technology and emerging growth sectors. Mr. Henley is also a registered advisor and owns Henley Asset Management Limited, a registered investment counsel and portfolio manager.
Mr. Henley has spent over 25 years in industry and investment banking analyzing and evaluating projects and financing and advising public and private companies. Mr. Henley was formerly employed as an officer at three of Canada's largest investment dealers. He has extensive experience financing and advising both public and private entities covering the full range of market capitalizations and is one of Canada's top advisors and underwriters in the technology sector having financed or advised many of the country's largest and best performing technology companies covering the full spectrum of high technology.
Prior to his current role Mr. Henley was the head of investment banking in Toronto and ran the High Technology and Communications practice for one of Canada's largest independent investment dealers. As one of the largest shareholders and a member of senior management of the then 725 employee firm Mr. Henley was also a member of the Names Approval Committee and Capital Committee.
Mr. Henley has personally completed and executed financing and advisory assignments covering the full spectrum of services in investment banking in a wide variety of industry sectors. Selected services covered over this period include:
Prior to joining the investment banking business Mr. Henley worked for the President and CEO of BP Canada Inc. as the company's representative on the East Coast of Canada and the representative of all of British Petroleum's interests in Canada at the senior most bureaucratic and political levels in Ottawa as well as Atlantic Canada. He also actively pursued business development initiatives for the Group's diverse business units.
Prior to BP, Mr. Henley was employed in the New Ventures and Acquisitions group of one of Canada's largest oil and gas companies and was formerly Executive Assistant, responsible for policy, to the joint Minister of Mines and Energy and Minister of Industrial Development in Newfoundland.
Mr. Henley has been a frequent lecturer and speaker on financing public and private companies at both technology and securities industry events. Mr. Henley has also co-hosted and co-sponsored a number of technology conferences and major events including The Canadian Software and IT Services Industry Awards at Softworld '98, The Bandwidth Technologies Conference on Wave Division Multiplexing and Optical Networking in Toronto and The Wall of Software in Vancouver. He is the founding and former Chair of the Judging Panel for the Canadian Software and IT Services Industry Awards — The Branham Awards. Mr. Henley is also a founding and past Co-Chair of the Premier's Technology Dinner in Ontario and is a founding and former member of the Ministers' Technology Advisory Group (MTAG) for the Province of Ontario where he chaired the Task Force on Access to Capital.
Mr. Henley is a current or former member of the board of directors of a number of private and public boards including Transition Therapeutics Inc. – a NASDAQ-listed and TSX-listed biotechnology company in which Mr. Henley was an early advisor and one of the initial angel investors, West Park Healthcare Centre, The Toronto Port Authority where he was formerly Chair of the board and Ontario Transportation Capital Corporation, a Crown Corporation privatized in 1999 for $3.1 billion that designed and built the world's most technologically advanced highway in the world — the 407 ETR. Mr. Henley is also a former member of the Advisory Board, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, an active member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, a founding member of the National Angel Organization in Canada and a current member of the board of directors of the Limited Market Dealers Association of Canada. Mr. Henley is also actively involved in a number of annual charitable fundraising initiatives such as The Ultimate Jet Set Experience and the Great Big Give. He is a founding board member of the Future Focus Foundation and the Smiling Land Foundation.
Mr. Henley holds a B.A. from Memorial University, an MBA from Dalhousie University and has completed the Institute of Corporate Directors Directors Education Program at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto. In 2006, Mr. Henley received the internationally recognized professional designation ICD.D.