Ryan Sprague

Managing Director

Phone: 289-259-4867
Email: sprague@coldwater.ca

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Ryan has over 20 years of experience in financial management and has closed over $1BN worth of mid-market deals. Ryan is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Professional Accountant. After earning his designations, Ryan traveled to New Zealand, where he worked in both public and private practice. He began his career at Ernst and Young, where he gained exposure to a diverse range of industries and dealt with complex tax, transfer pricing, due diligence, and other financial matters. Later, he joined a publicly listed wine company, where he was responsible for the financial reporting functions of two of its largest overseas subsidiaries.

Ryan returned to Canada in 2012 and assumed the role of Director and District Manager at Roynat Capital. For 10 years, he successfully grew a book of business within the Southern Ontario marketplace, funding secured term, asset-light, subordinated, and mezzanine debt to mid-market companies. Under his leadership, the Southern Ontario District Office of Roynat Capital became one of the most successful and largest district offices nationally, earning Ryan the Best of the Best Award four times. Returning to private enterprise in 2021, Ryan completed two strategic acquisitions, acquired over $40MM of real estate and refinanced a $65MM banking facility. In 2022, he returned to the mid-market, joining Coldwater Corporate Finance as a Managing Director. Ryan plans and executes sell-side mandates on behalf of mid-market business owners, coordinating exhaustive search processes that primarily focus on strategic and adjacency buyers.

Ryan is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, where he earned an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration with Accounting Option. He obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 2002 and finished in the top 10% of his writing year.