Team
Matt Rachiele, CFA
Managing Partner, XXIII Capital Inc.
Matt brings nearly two decades of diversified real estate and finance experience, having been directly involved in the execution of well over C$40 billion in completed transactions throughout his career. He has worked on real property transactions encompassing over 4 million square feet of commercial property in Canada and in excess of 27 million royalty acres across North America.
His background includes holding various senior positions with one of the world's largest commercial real estate services firms, including managing a commercial brokerage team of over 80 in Calgary (the largest in Alberta at the time), serving as the interim Canadian chair of global capital markets and in a hybrid investment sales / capital raising capacity. Previously, he spent 12 years as an investment banker covering Canadian & U.S. clients with TD Securities and, prior thereto, as an M&A specialist with National Bank Financial in Toronto.
Matt's transaction experience includes asset acquisitions and divestitures; joint ventures; corporate mergers, acquisitions, sales and restructurings, recapitalizations and hostile takeovers / defense mandates; fairness opinions and valuations; initial public offerings and secondary equity issuances; private and public convertible, preferred debt and bond financings; project financing; and broad strategic alternatives processes for a broad range of public and private entities and across numerous industries.
Matt is a CFA® charterholder and Registered Representative to trade in exempt market securities in Canada. He was formerly licensed under FINRA for investment banking activities in the United States and under RECA for commercial real estate activity in Alberta. Matt graduated from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary with a Bachelors of Commerce in Finance.
TAYLOR HUDZINSKI, CFA
Vice President, XXIII Capital Inc.
Immediately prior to co-founding XXIII Capital Inc., Taylor was overseeing strategic corporate development and restructuring activities for a trio of family-owned companies, including home building, foreign manufacturing/import/export and retail sales businesses. She formerly worked in a commercial real estate investment sales capacity wherein she was part of a team that marketed over 4 million square feet of property across Western Canada including industrial, office, retail, mixed-use, multi-family, development land, hospitality, resort and controlled environment agricultural mandates.
She formerly worked with Hugessen Consulting providing independent Board-side advisory to domestic and international, public and private entities. She began her career working as a Commercial Underwriting Manager with ATB Financial, focused on small cap, private real estate and agricultural lending.
Taylor currently sits as a director on the CREW Network's Calgary Chapter Board has been a CFA® charterholder, CFA Institute since 2021. She was formerly licensed under RECA for commercial real estate activity in Alberta and graduated from the University of Alberta with a B.Com in Finance.
Larry Birchall
Executive Chairman, Longbow Capital Inc.
Advisor, XXIII Capital Inc.
Larry's partnership in XXIII Capital Inc. stems from a personal commitment of time & capital from the Birchall Family.
Longbow Capital Inc. is a private equity investment manager founded by Larry & Ruth Birchall in 1997 with ~$1.5 Bn in AUM today. It has an exceptional track record including having 23 funds raised over the past 25 years. Longbow has been a long-term strategic partner and an engaged and effective shareholder in >150 high-growth investments to date. It invests in innovative companies that are doing things differently. That includes companies that help bring energy to the world in the most efficient, cost-effective and environmentally-responsible manner as we transition to a low carbon future.
More recently, Longbow has launched an early-stage fund focused on Seed and Series A investments in (i) Electrification and Energy Infrastructure Storage and (ii) Climate Resiliency.
Longbow recently closed a $181M fund focused on investment related to the Energy Transition, which included several of the world's largest financial and corporate institutions as investors / co-invests.
For more information on Longbow, please visit www.LongbowCapital.com
andrew cockwell
Managing Partner, Ursataur Capital Management
Advisor, XXIII Capital Inc.
Mr. Cockwell is the Managing Partner of Ursataur Capital Management, a private equity firm he founded in 2009 that strategically invests in Canadian mid-market companies across various industries. Andrew also has extensive private and public commercial and residential real estate interests. He holds a track record of fostering value creation for both private and public companies, advising on issues such as strategic realignment, operational improvement, capital allocation, and governance.
Previously, Mr. Cockwell was a Founding Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners in 2006, a Toronto-based private equity firm targeting both domestic and international investments. He also served in the Private Equity and Corporate Finance practices at global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which he joined in 2003 and where he advised businesses, private equity firms, and hedge funds in North America and Europe. Earlier in his career, he practiced M&A and securities law as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and London.
Mr. Cockwell holds a breadth of experience providing financial and legal advisory services in a variety of complex business contexts across a wide range of industries, including commercial real estate, industrial coatings, ground support, financial services, and food and retail. Mr. Cockwell holds a Bachelor of Art (Hons.) from Queen’s University and an LL.B. with Great Distinction from the Faculty of Law at McGill University.