John McDonald Bio:

John McDonald is the founder and President of Rampworth Capital Services Inc.  In fact, it was his personal passion, for strategically raising value before raising money, that originally sparked the creation of Rampworth. 

A career entrepreneur, John has founded, funded and built several successful ventures over the past 20 years:

·     Manufacturing (Australia - joint venture for Shell & BF Goodrich) - rolled out in EU

·     Commercial Building Services (Vancouver & Seattle) - sold to a strategic buyer (fortune 1,000 company).

·     ASP service centre for Commercial Real Estate industry (Nation wide - Vancouver based) - sold to top tier pension fund.

Over the course of his career, John has been through the full cycle (securing funding, building teams, executing the vision and creating liquidity) several times, and while the financial rewards have been gratifying, he is most proud of having left behind sustainable businesses with strong teams, passionate cultures and enduring process.

If there is a repeating pattern in John's business career, it would be the ability to dig into a new industry and see where it is heading, to devise innovative strategy for building value and architecting a liquidity event. 

In addition to his passion for working with entrepreneurs, John loves to paint, cook, ski, jog, rollerblade, roast coffee or do just about anything that gives him an excuse to hang out with his wife Suzanne and their two kids, Noel and Jacqueline.                                                                                             top

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Personal Mission
My personal mission is to generate measurable economic value by helping passionate entrepreneurs through create enduring enterprises.  

Personal Values:  
In my opinion, all individuals stand for something, and they typically act accordingly.  In my case, the values that I try to live up to can best be described as:

Leadership:  Above all, I believe in honesty and integrity.  Without honesty (first with ourselves & then with others) too much  energy is wasted on friction rather than growth. It is my belief that a culture of trust is the foundation of all successful enterprises.

Results:  While my natural propensity is toward innovation, the underlying goal of all business ventures is to add value to the capital that it is able to attract.  As I see it, the value of a business grows fastest when it is closely aligned to customer values. 

 

Sustainability:  No matter how dramatically a business grows, the effort is wasted if the resulting enterprise doesn’t last.  Taking no more from the world than we give back is the entry point for sustainability, but finding great people is also a part of the solution.  Of course, those two are nothing if the leader fails to create a culture that breed’s passion.  In fact, it is my belief that it is fundamentally wrong for a leader to encourage people to invest their heartbeats into something that they aren’t passionate about, or to neglect the job of building the most possible value with the heartbeats that they are entrusted with.

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