Gerhard Schauble founded the unique private mergers and acquisitions advisory group that delivers an uncomplicated and uncompromising approach to business. GES moves well beyond the requisite deal making to business innovation and value creation by offering alternative strategies including internal growth, merger, acquisition, and/or strategic partnering.

Partnerships are everything. And successful businesses need strategic allies that have more to offer than just financial resources. The transaction team of GES has a proven track record of game-changing innovation and collaboration across industries that are unmatched in the private mergers and acquisitions world. Our experience can add significant value to every business.

We have what it takes, day-to-day, to run (and more importantly grow) businesses. We have hands-on experience collaborating with our clients' advisors and negotiating with partners on the other side. The transaction team of GES have been in the trenches both acquiring businesses and on the other side of the table as the acquisition target. We have a unique perspective on the daily grind of business and can offer the 30,000 foot view for major management decisions.

Mergers and acquisitions take more than just planning and execution. While it's imperative to get the blocking and tackling right, you need visionary leaders with insight, a high level of creativity and a willingness to push beyond the expected. GES' experience as deal makers and from cultivating strategic relationships can help build companies into industry leaders.

Innovation is the lifeblood of every successful business. Incubating ideas, whether it be developing and applying creative solutions or designing a growth strategy, is crucial to significant long-term growth. We have a history of embracing visionary concepts and applying them to growth strategies, often changing the very nature of the businesses themselves.

The roots of GES were plated in the early eighties in the fertile soil of Alberta's oil and gas boom. With the simple, yet immensely challenging mission to "revolutionize our industry", the core GES team set out to change how deals were made. Founder and President Gerhard Schauble took the mission to heart. When Gerhard founded GES in 1998, his mantra was already ingrained in his business DNA: revolutionize our industry. With a network of visionaries and legal and accounting professionals, GES had a compelling foundation on which to build. The notion of innovation and game changing business ideas is what drives everything that GES is today. We apply the same level of energy and commitment to thinking beyond the expected to every one of our client companies.

GES is focused on building businesses poised for long-term success. We advise across a spectrum from structuring transactions to closing financial terms. We concentrate on clients where our involvement in the overall business strategy has the ability to significantly impact the company's probability of success.

Value is created through big picture thinking, strategic alliances and exceptional execution. We roll up our sleeves from day one. By focusing on where our team and extended network have insight, experience and real relationships, we bring a valuable level of support to our client companies. "GES has proven to be knowledgeable, professional, and adaptive to the many complications of our fully-employee-owned corporation. Gerhard Schauble has provided excellent council and has shown to be masterful in complex negotiations."         -    Lois Huey-Heck, president of Wood Lake Books Ltd., the largest publisher of religious books in Canada "GES' immense knowledge of the intricacies of the corporate world has guided me favourably without exception, while preserving dignity, during some challenging times."         -    Larry Sawchuk, CEO of Sawchuk Developments Co. Ltd.

Cause branding is a strategic approach to integrating social issues into the persona of the brand. Through its related business, GES Global Event Sponsorship, GES has developed comprehensive programs that linked the cause and our client with the core part of the sponsor's brand identity. Our clients are partners with sponsors that are witnessing win-win business related impacts on their employees, customers and communities. Cause related programs are not just a passing fad. Canadians, in their roles as consumers, employees, and community members, consistently expect that companies must help solve social issues. GES itself sponsors non-profit organizations that work with the world's most marginalized populations. In 2009 GES partnered with Rally Pan Am at the Dakar Rally. The team supported Un Techo para mi País, a Latin American non-profit organization that mobilizes youth volunteers to eradicate the extreme poverty that affects more than 80 million people in the region.

Gerhard Schauble brings over 20 years of corporate strategic and consulting expertise to GES as Founder and President. His expertise ranges from sponsorship marketing and strategy to business development and sales. For over 28 years, Gerhard has served as a director and advisor to numerous private media and technology companies and as a lawyer in Alberta and British Columbia. Lawyer, Joe Gordon, who has known Gerhard for 20 years, says "Gerhard is a cosmopolitan and courageous individual, somewhat of a "Renaissance Man", with an avid and fascinating interest in international aviation. He fearlessly articulates an active, well-spoken, public and informed interest in genuinely preserving the environmental health of the planet, dealing appropriately with global warming and other pro-social interests many lawyers would do well to emulate."

John Bowyer brings over 21 years of business consulting and business development to GES as Strategic Advisor. His expertise and experience are in the areas of managing business growth, strategic planning, performance improvement, and managing the sale of business process. John has consulted to clients in over 40 different business sectors in Canada, the US and UK. Prior to establishing his own consulting firm in 1993, John worked with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in their Vancouver Corporate Finance/Consulting Group, was president of a mid-size packaging machinery manufacturing business with worldwide markets, and held senior management positions with MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. The former CEO and owner of Structurlam Products, Mark Rufiange, who has known John for 15 years, says "John has given us ongoing strategic and business advice that was instrumental in the successful growth of our company and which led to the ultimate sale of Structurlam to a strategic buyer. John also managed the sale process and his knowledge and expertise has been invaluable."

GES, Inc. belongs to the family of companies dedicated to developing commercial strategies to negotiate win-win solutions for its clients. GESgroup is comprised also of Interface Business Exchange, which provides brokerage services in commercial transactions and GES Global Event Sponsorship, a sports agency that specializes in sponsorship marketing in motor sports. GESgroup shares the belief that negotiations should allow for a synergy that is one of opportunity and productivity. GESgroup develops creative ways to maximize benefits to its client companies.

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