NextGen Coaching

I help next-gens (of established family businesses) to navigate their business journeys with confidence and clarity and turn their professional goals into a reality through personalized 1:1 coaching. By leveraging my multifaceted background in business and law, I have added value to businesses in a wide range of industries and business contexts. 

If you have a question or are faced with a specific business decision or challenge, let's chat. I'm confident I can help.

Founder

Adar Mining Corp.

Co-Founder

Tau Property Partners

Chief Legal Officer

Altree Developments

Manager, Finance & Strategy

Tau Capital Corp.

VP Business Development

Helping the Next Generation in Family Businesses to Maximize their Potential and Figure Out Their Next Moves | Business Coach & Strategic Advisor

Over the last decade, I’ve advised on projects and deals worth over $2 billion, both within my own family’s businesses and other families' businesses.

My mission is to help next-gens eliminate frustrations, maximize their potential, and achieve their own success through proven strategies and personalized coaching.

I specialize in helping next-gen family members navigate family dynamics, enhance their business skills and decision-making, and build on their family’s legacy while forging their own impactful paths.

My Experience:
→ Founder of NextGen Coaching: Coaching and strategic advice for next-gens of family businesses.
→ Partner to Family Offices: Helping retain and empower next-gen clients.
→ Extensive Experience: Worked in family businesses in real estate, mining, and finance.
→ MBA and JD: Strong background in practical business tactics and personal insight.

What I Offer:
→ Personalized Coaching: Tailored sessions for strategic planning and personal development.
→ Strategic Guidance: Advice on navigating business challenges and maximizing opportunities.
→ Leadership Development: Tools to enhance leadership skills and empower others.
→ Navigating Family Dynamics: Support for managing complexities in family businesses.
→ Risk Management: Strategies to navigate major decisions in business and leadership.

My Results:
→ Coached over 50 leaders across 10+ industries.
→ Advised on projects and deals worth over $2 billion.
→ Helped numerous clients achieve transformative growth and fulfillment.

If you want to learn more about NextGen Coaching:
→ GO HERE: https://www.NextGenCoach.com

If you want to explore my 1:1 coaching and advisory services:
→ GO HERE: https://calendly.com/dnewfield/strategy-call

Let's connect and explore how we can elevate your journey to new heights.

David Newfield

A. Meckler Enterprises

A.Meckler Enterprises - DBA of A. Meckler Corporate Finance Inc (also doing business as One-Eighty Advisory Group), is a corporate finance and strategy consulting firm.

We offer a wide range of corporate finance consulting services. The company also has diversified strategic holdings in public and private businesses. The firm also consults and invests in special situations across a variety of sectors.

Fractional CFO Support, Tax Prep & Corporate Finance Services provided by One-Eighty Advisory Group: 

-Management Support And Financial Department Oversight
-Build-Out Of Financial Back Office Solutions
-Cloud Based Controllership Services, Including Bookkeeping, A/R And A/P Management, Cash Management And Payroll
-Financial Reporting
-FP&A
-Business Plans
-Financial Forecasts
-Valuations 
-P&L Analysis
-Corporate Development
-Capital-Efficient Growth Or Turnaround Planning
-FDD and M&A Advisory
-Tax Return Prep and Filing

Current and past clients for CFO Services: 
-Assisted Living Franchisor 
-Assisted Living Operations 
-Real Estate (Multi-family, Commercial/Retail, Industrial) 
-Tech PubCO (CSE) 
-Cannabis Extraction PubCo (CSE)
-Mining PubCo (CSE)
-Specialty Trading/Settlements
-Hedge Funds 
-eCommerce
-Alt Credit

Currently on the Board of Directors for multiple portfolio companies.

President

Flow Capital Funding LLC

Flow Capital provides flexible financing to SMBs nationwide. Financing types are typically MCA positions, but can also include other Equity or Asset-Based solutions. 

As the CFO of the firm, Aaron is responsible for:
-Capital Formation and Banking relationships
-Controllership, Including Bookkeeping, A/R And A/P Management, Cash Management And Payroll
-Financial Reporting
-FP&A
-Business Planning
-Financial Forecasting
-MCA & Loan Valuations 
-P&L Analysis
-Corporate Development
-Tax Return Prep and Filing
-FinOps Systems Build-Out

Aaron also sits on the credit, risk and funding committees

Chief Financial Officer

Nuclear Energy Exploration & Development (Formerly OG Acquisition 2 Corp.)

Interim CFO until the completion of material transaction with Snow Lake.  Aaron is a major shareholder and advisor to the company, sitting currently in a director position while the company is in the process of closing  a transaction with Snow Lake, nasdaq listed under ticker LITM. The company is selling off its Namibia Asset in a muli-million gross total transaction with a mix of Cash and Shares.

Interim Chief Financial Officer

OG Acquisition 2 Corp is an acquisition company for the emerging markets and it has recently acquired a Namibian Uranium Exploration target.

Milestones: 

1. Seed financing, May 2022
2. 2022 Audited FS and MDA Completed, Feb. 2023
3.. LOI with target, Feb. 2023 
4.. Closing of acquisition, April 2023.

Chief Executive Officer

Amuka Capital

CFO and Director for Amuka Capital Corp., a boutique investment bank and corporate finance services firm. 

Amuka Capital is a merchant bank focused on capital markets consulting as well as both incubating emerging market projects from idea to the public markets, and executing on SME special situation acquisitions.

Responsibilities included all aspects of underwriting and firm financial reporting (IFRS and GAAP)

Amuka Esports

Aaron was the CFO for Canada's leader in Esports hubs, focusing on leagues, tournaments, venues, content and feeding new businesses into the ecosystem with Canada's first dedicated Esports incubator. 


Portfolio Companies & Brands:

Amuka Esports | https://amukaesports.com/
Level Six Incubator | https://levelsix.gg/
Waves Gaming | https://wavesgaming.ca/
Ezy Mode | https://www.ezymode.ca/
Mount Phenom | https://mountphenom.com/
Organized Gaming | http://organizedgaming.co/
Incendium | twitch.tv/incendiumgaming & twitter.com/incendium_gg
HPM |  https://instagram.com/theofficialhpm?igshid=18pgcqlh3y931
Dragonborn Esport | https://dragonbornesport.com/
Parabellum Esports  | 
https://twitter.com/PBLMesports

Chief Financial Officer, Director

CoinAnalyst Corp. (Formerly Brandenburg Energy Corp)

Reporting Issuer that executed a reverse takeover with CoinAnalyst UG on Oct 26, 2021.



-May 5th 2020: Gained control of the board of directors and became the largest shareholder, interim CEO & CFO
-June 5th 2020:  Received approvals for a partial revocation order to complete a private placement to clean up the books, conduct an audit, and then apply to lift the current cease trade order 
-June 17th 2020: completed the private placement to fund the audit and application process required for full cease trade revocation 
-June 28th 2020: Completed a review of 2018 and 2019 financials, prepared draft FS for audit, and prepared MD&A for years FY 2018 & 2019.
-July 9th 2020: Filed application for full revocation order with the ASC and BCSC
-July 30th 2020: Received positive initial comments from BCSC with regards to the Cease Trade Revocation Order 
-August 11th 2020: Submitted responses to the BCSC and filed an amended MCR 
-August 25th 2020: Received positive comments from the BCSC that there isn't any additional substantive comments. BCSC Gave us green light for filing MD&A and Financials. 
-August 27th 2020: Signed legal & audit letters and filed MDA  and Audited FS for 2018 and 2019, as well as interim FS and MDA for 2020. 
-August 31st  2020: Cease Trade Orders revoked (joint order between BCSC and ASC). 
-Sep 1st 2020: Actively identifying targets and new business opportunities
-Nov 16th 2020: Re-appointed for CEO,CFO & Director. All old debts settled and Aaron Meckler takes ~60% resulting ownership with the shell group owning approximately ~94% of the float post the settlement
-March 17 2021: signed binding letter agreement with Coin Analyst UG 
-Oct 2021: Closed RTO with Coin Analyst UG

CEO, CFO, Director

Stralak Resources, Inc.

Acquired Hempsana in a Reverse Takeover Transaction. Closed July 12, 2021. Trading on CSE started July 15, 2021 under the ticker HMPS

-November 23 2020: Gained control of the board of directors and became the interim CEO & CFO
-December 10 2020: Completed drafts of FY 2019 and 2020 FS + MD&A
-December 17 2020: Received approvals for a partial revocation order to complete a private placement which will finance work related to cleaning up the books, conducting an audit, and then applying to lift the current cease trade order
-December 22 2020: Completion of the 85k private placement allowed under the partial revocation order. A.Meckler Enterprises Financed ~53% of the private placement
-March 3 2021: BCSC completed review of the file and allowed Stralak to file FS to sedar
-March 5 2021: CTO revoked (joint order from BCSC and ASC)
-April 23 2021: Signed binding agreement with Hempsana to complete a RTO, anticipated for end of Q2 2021.
-July 12 2021: Exited the company and board of directors following a successful RTO with Hempsana.

CEO, CFO, Director 

Amuka Developments

In his role as CFO and Director, Aaron is tasked with heading up the acquisitions team and ensuring strict due diligence and financial reporting policies are in order. 

Amuka Developments is a Real Estate firm, focusing on value-add and infill development in Canadian primary and secondary markets. 

Project 1: 
-Q1 2020 - West Street, a 4.45 acre site in Brantford Ontario with a goal to obtain a site plan approval for a 230+ unit apartment development on ~210,000 SF GFA.
-Q3 2020 - Found a buyer for the subject site  and waived conditions  on August  27th 2020. 
-Q4 2020- Sold the subject site December 31 2020

Real Crowd Capital

R2 Investments (Real Crowd Capital), a mid-market real estate investment banking firm formerly registered under The Securities Act in Ontario. 

Aaron was Responsible for the underwriting, analysis and overall financial architecture for equity & debt private placements. Aaron was also tasked with assisting the firm in preparing detailed financial reports as part of its reporting obligations (Financial Audit and Securities Compliance) 

The firm placed over $500M in Debt and equity during Aaron's tenure, and he was responsible for the structuring of more than $120M of senior and mezzanine debt financing for mid-market development and construction projects across Canadian primary and secondary markets.

Corporate Finance Manager, Real Estate Private Equity  (Contract)

North American Family Office

Buy-side analyst for NY Based PE firm and a major North American land-banking firm.

Sectors:
 1. Real Estate: Analyzed over $500MM in RE transactions, such as multi-family value-add as well as North American land assets. Average transaction sizes ranging from $30M-$250M each. 

2. Private Equity:  Conducted M&A research and models, as well as corporate restructuring with debt and equity facilities across a variety of industries. 

-Played a vital role assisting these firms with their financial reporting obligations. 
-analyzed and structured over 30 different private placements and transactions.
-conducted and assisted on multiple QofE reports for portfolio assets

Private Equity Analyst

CFO | Transaction Advisory | Merchant Banking | Private Equity

CFO and Strategic Business Advisor, currently owns and operates 4 (Revenue-Based Financing, CFO, Business Consulting, Healthcare) businesses. Active Investor in over 10 private and publicly traded companies. 

Past mandates have been in the following areas:

1. Fractional CFO support for International and North American businesses. Mostly in Private Equity and Alt Credit across a wide range of industries. 

2. Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestitures and Recapitalizations, Quality of Earnings and FP&A Advisory.

3. Public Listing Advisory for international, Canadian and US companies (RTO, IPO, Direct Listings). This includes potential for cross listings within Germany as well.

4.  Advising on special situations and take-overs.


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