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Firdaus Pohowalla, Cascadia Managing Director, will moderate a panel of experts discussing Macro Perspectives on T&L Technologies

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Overview

With over 300 registered attendees, nearly 20 speakers and panelists, and hundreds of individual meetings and connections made, the 2023 Cascadia Connect Robotics, Automation and AI ("RAAI") conference in Pittsburgh was another productive conference.

The Fairmont Pittsburgh was once again the epicenter of the event which took place from May 1-3, 2023.  Please find below a brief conference recap, conference materials, and images from our welcome reception and conference activities.  Enjoy and see you next year!

Please read our full conference recap here.

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Kevin Frisch is a Managing Director at Cascadia Capital with extensive advisory and financing experience over his 25+ year investment banking career. Kevin leads both the Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace, Space & Defense Practices at Cascadia. His expertise is marrying extensive industry knowledge and experience with creative finance and advisory solutions to give clients the best range of options to pursue and then execute on their behalf.

Kevin previously founded and led the Advanced Manufacturing & Supply Chain practice at Imperial Capital for approximately a decade. Prior to this he covered Industrial Technology and Additive Manufacturing companies at FBR Capital Markets. He started his post-MBA career as a Mergers and Acquisitions specialist in Industrials at Lehman Brothers and was in that role for nearly 10 years. Prior to business school, he worked at Oppenheimer & Co. and Chase Securities.

Kevin holds a B.A. in Economics and Public Policy from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Booth School at the University of Chicago.

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Cascadia’s industry conference series presents the 2nd annual premier event for the robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence community, including growth companies, investors, entrepreneurs, academics, and technologists.

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Firdaus Pohowalla, Cascadia Managing Director on the Robotics Sector Fundraising & Investment panel.

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Cascadia Capital, one of the nation's most active independent middle-market investment banks, announced today that Kevin Frisch has joined the firm as a Managing Director.  Mr. Frisch will focus on providing M&A and corporate finance advisory to Cascadia’s clients in the Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace, Space & Defense sectors.

“We are very excited to welcome  Kevin to the Cascadia team and extend Cascadia’s focus and expertise in both Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace, Space & Defense,” said  Michael Butler, Cascadia Chairman & CEO.  “These are growing and dynamic sectors, and Kevin is one of the pre-eminent bankers in the space, with deep industry relationships with both business owners and financial sponsors alike. We are looking forward to working with him to expand and complement our  Industrial franchise and have him contribute his extensive knowledge in assisting Cascadia clients.”

Mr. Frisch brings to Cascadia over 25 years of investment banking experience with extensive expertise in Mergers and Acquisition transactions, as well as private and public debt and equity capital raising. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and Head of Industrials at Imperial Capital where he founded the Advanced Manufacturing & Supply Chain practice. Prior to Imperial, he advised Industrial Technology and Additive Manufacturing companies at FBR Capital Markets.  After receiving his MBA from the Booth School at the University of Chicago, Mr. Frisch began his career as a Mergers and Acquisitions specialist in Industrials at Lehman Brothers. His early experience includes Oppenheimer & Co. and Chase Securities.

“Kevin brings a tremendous amount of firepower to our coverage footprint that will augment our industrials effort and elevate our broader platform,” continued Butler. “Cascadia has added significant talent over the last year. Kevin, alongside our growing senior leadership team, will play an integral role in our next phase of growth as we continue our long-term commitment of delivering superior outcomes for our clients.”

“I’m honored to join Cascadia Capital. The firm’s outstanding reputation, along with its commitment to excellence, are unique in the marketplace,” added Mr. Frisch. “ I am excited to be a part of a fast-growing platform that allows me to continue to focus on both Advanced Manufacturing and Aerospace, Space & Defense — sectors that complement the firm’s existing practices in Industrials and Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence.”

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The Diversified Industrials group delivers M&A and capital raising services to leading growth companies across the sector. Our team members are early pioneers on focusing on the various sub-verticals within the sector, particularly those driven by industry 4.0. Our core focus is on companies with a specialized defensible niche, proprietary technology or manufacturing process, or other intellectual property. We have had a track record of representing best-in-class growth companies, leveraging our relationships with strategic buyers and investors to effectively position our clients to achieve optimal outcomes.

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Michael Orbach is an Executive Director and Senior Advisor, advising Cascadia’s bankers and their clients in the firm’s Technology and Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence practices. With over 30 years of operational and transactional experience, Michael has closed more than 120 public, private and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and financings, in enterprise software, digital media, IT security, cloud computing, infrastructure software, industrial automation and technology-enabled services.

Michael led Cascadia’s Technology group as a Managing Director from April 2008 until March 2019. Before that, Michael was at Pagemill Partners, where he served as Managing Director, and prior to that, he was a founding member of ABB New Ventures Ltd, the corporate finance and venture capital group of ABB Ltd, where he was Managing Director of the ABB Industrial IT Venture Fund.

During his career as a software entrepreneur, Michael co-founded and managed Simulation Sciences from inception through its IPO; and then sold the business to Invensys plc (LSE: ISYS). He also led technology M&A for Aspen Technology (NASDAQ:AZPN) and co-founded Skyva International, which was later sold to ABB Ltd. (VIRTX: ABBN).

Michael holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and an M.B.A from the University of Washington.

Michael is an avid golfer, skier and runner, as well as a lifelong supporter of Manchester United Football Club.

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Mark is an Executive Director and Senior Advisor in Cascadia Capital’s Robotics, Automation & Artificial Intelligence practice. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University School of Engineering and Heinz College, and frequent guest lecturer at Dartmouth and Princeton. He is also the CEO of Bloomfield Robotics, an AI-driven AgTech company. Mark is a serial technology entrepreneur and has extensive operational and transactional expertise. He was previously co-founder and CEO RoadBotics, a venture-backed AI platform used for infrastructure assessment. He was co-founder and Chairman of kWantix, a quant energy hedge fund; co-founder and CEO of kWantera, a GE Ventures-backed energy trading company; CEO of Think Through Learning, a venture-backed online tutoring company; and US Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a UK-based venture capital firm and consultancy.

Earlier in his career, Mark was the Director of Government Relations for Texas Instruments and held policy positions as a Senior Policy Analyst in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Administration of George H. W. Bush. He was also staff assistant to late U.S. Senator John Heinz and a management consultant with Booz Allen.

Mark holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

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Firdaus Pohowalla is a Managing Director at Cascadia Capital with broad advisory and financing experience. Firdaus heads Cascadia’s industrials coverage group providing strategic advice and developing tailored solutions to complex problems for clients. His expertise is in identifying solutions that pair client objectives with feasible capital markets options.

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Firdaus had previously spent 17 years in New York and San Francisco with Barclays, UBS and Merrill Lynch. Earlier, Firdaus was a strategy consultant with Deloitte Consulting / Braxton Associates focused on strategic advisory for technology and telecommunications companies.

Firdaus holds a B.A. Economics (Honors) from Carleton College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Naaman Heyman is a Director in Cascadia Capital’s Industrials group. He is focused on advising and executing strategic transactions on behalf of clients in the sector and leads the firm’s Specialty Distribution, and Construction and Building Materials subsectors, as well as co-leads the Industrials Services sector.

Prior to joining Cascadia Capital, Naaman was a Vice President in Barclays’ Industrials Group in New York, where he advised Distribution and Building Products companies on a broad spectrum of transactions, including M&A, equity and debt transactions. Earlier, Naaman was the Assistant Corporate Treasurer at Orbotech, where he managed the Company’s investments of funds and oversaw external subsidies.

Naaman holds a B.A. in Economics and History from Tel Aviv University and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is registered with FINRA, holding the Series 79 and 63 licenses.

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