About VEER

Our core message is simple: Every entrepreneur deserves an amazing exit. Whether that means developing a plan to enhance value and sellability for a future transaction, facilitating an internal sale to management, employees or partners, or marketing your business to potential buyers from around the world, our team is committed to helping make your exit amazing.

Our “Why”

After a thirty-year career with both CFO and CEO experience for businesses across a variety of industries, VEER founder Bob Lawrence had been involved in dozens of business acquisitions.  Two key lessons stood out for him:

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  1. Business owners were at a distinct disadvantage compared to the strategic and financial buyers negotiating to buy their businesses, who often had much more experience with the business valuation and transaction process. Strategic buyers were not riding the same emotional rollercoaster the business owners often found themselves on. The playing field was far from level.

  2. Most businesses—and their owners—were totally unprepared for the business sale process, and were largely unaware of strategies they could follow to enhance both the value and sellability of their businesses.

Leveraging decades of experience managing and acquiring businesses, VEER was launched to provide those business owners with a team of business exit guides to lead them through their exit journeys.

Who We Are

VEER is a team of financial professionals with practical experience in accounting, business management, business valuation, banking and finance. We are curious and inquisitive, eager to understand all types of businesses and industries. And we pride ourselves on our ability to listen to our clients, understand their personal, family and business objectives, and develop strategies to help them achieve their objectives.

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  • Founder

    After earning his CA designation in 1987, and since leaving public practice accounting in 1992, Bob has served in executive management positions with companies in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, retail, resource extraction and software development. With his hands-on operations and management experience, he can identify with the challenges facing business owners, especially as they look 5-7 years down the road at their inevitable business exits.

    Bob launched VEER Business Advisors in 2013, and became a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) in 2016. He is active in the community, serving as a Futurpreneur mentor, and is a founding board member of West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation, supporting BC families of children battling cancer.

  • Partner

    Candice is an award-winning accountant and Partner of VEER Business Advisors. Her focus at VEER is on sell-side advisory for small- to medium-sized business owners. Alongside her team, she helps business owners identify and manage the unique strategic, financial, emotional and structural implications of business transitions in a wide array of industries, working with business owners to ensure an amazing exit from their business. Previously, Candice worked as a commercial lender at the Business Development Bank of Canada.

    Candice holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Honours) from the Sauder School of Business and is a Chartered Professional Accountant, earning the Certified Management Accountant’s Silver Medal for British Columbia in 2015.

    She is the former President of Vancouver’s Association of Women in Finance, former President and Co-Founder of the Risk Management Association of the Fraser Valley, and a passionate volunteer presenter for Small Business BC and CPA Canada’s Financial Literacy programs. She also currently volunteers as Director of Finance for Women Leaders of Tomorrow, dedicated to helping young Afghan women find education opportunities in Canada.

    Her most important role is keeping up with her two kids, and ensuring VEER’s Director of Bark-eting gets sufficient daily walks.

  • Partner

    Grant brings over 10 years of Commercial Banking expertise to the VEER team and has a proven track record of delivering high quality creative solutions to clients. Grant excels at working with business owners to establish long-lasting relationships to help meet their financial goals. He has particular expertise in succession planning and acquisition financing.

    Grant has held various roles in his career in financial services businesses in the US and Canada covering relationship management, financial analysis, business consulting, and general financial advice.

    Vancouver Island born and raised, Grant is a sports enthusiast who loves spending time with his family and friends. If he is not in the office, he can often be found travelling the world with his beautiful wife and two young kids. Grant completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) specializing in Finance from Colorado Mesa University in 2009 while attending on a baseball scholarship.

Supporting our team is a network of tax specialists, lawyers, bankers, wealth advisors, human resource professionals, former business owners and a variety of other experts.  We know what we know, and respect what we don’t know.  And can almost always find someone who does.