Nestor Vargas, CFP®🟢

Financial Advisor

MyGymProfits

We help gym owners make their gyms profitable.

Founder

AlignPoint Wealth

AlignPoint Wealth is a personal financial planning firm focused on helping business owners unlock and protect the value of their lifelong work- their business.

Certified Financial Planner

Fidelity Investments

Regions Bank

Finance Specialist

Protect and maximize your business value | I will show you how | Financial Planner for established entrepreneurs.

There are 3 things I see small business owners struggling with the most:

Lack of systems
Lack of cash flow
Lack of a financial plan

For over 14 years, I’ve been guiding business owners and their families to create long-term financial security.

Watching my Mom go through pain and heartache is why I chose this path.

Her commercial cleaning business did not sell. 

• She worked her tail off forever 
• She never took a real vacation for 10 years 
• Her business was profitable but wasn’t transferable

She never built for an exit or retirement.

But she’s not alone.

The recurring themes I’ve seen during my 14 years of experience:

• Most business owners aren’t prepared to sell
• Most business owners aren’t prepared to retire

And 80% of businesses won’t sell.

Plus, 99% of financial advisors give advice that helps people work 9-5.

Not business owners. A travesty.

This is where I enter the game and become your Financial Quarterback.

Someone who is a business owner and financial advisor.

I want to help you avoid the pain, heartache, and sleepless nights business owners like my Mom have suffered through.

So if you’re an established business owner who wants to:

1 - Unlock the value of your business and life’s work
2 - Get serious about selling your business
3 - Set your business up to retire early

Click the link in my featured section to see if we can build a financial game plan for you

Green Mountain Panning is a personal financial planning firm focused on helping high-achieving corporate employees organize their money lives so they can start their entrepreneurial journeys.

Our founder successfully left corporate work 6 years ago so he understands all that is at risk.

Nestor Vargas, CFP®, CEPA

The semi-retired but too energetic Regulatory Combobulator provides clarity and certainty in a world of murky and changing environmental regulatory requirements.

Project or corporate strategy and tactical response to environmental regulatory challenges.   Retained or contract work considered.

The Regulatory Combobulator

FezCo

Lent support and guidance to startups in the energy and waste sectors.  Major outfits include Taurus RNG, Industrial Heartland BioPark, Core Environmental, Alberta Rubber, AdvEn, H2Sweet, Skim Tech, EIM Catalyst Recovery, Producers Oilfield, Greenfield Resources, Muirfield Resources, One Environmental.

Advisory Board on several leading edge technology providers.

Founder, Supporter, Funder of various enterprises

Government of Alberta

Contract Approvals Manager. Alberta Environment & Protected Areas. 

Focus on Industrial Heartland heavy industries. Managing a team of engineers generating approvals and working on regulatory system transformation.

RAF Approvals Manager

Nauticol

Leading environmental and regulatory strategy and processes for a new state-of-the-art, world class Blue Methanol facility. 

Nauticol is extending the value chain for Alberta’s abundant natural gas resources and diversifying the economy.

Vice President, Environment & Regulatory

Alberta Energy Regulator (AER)

Provided seasoned engineering, regulatory and environmental advice to the teams leading transformational work at the AER. Ensured new ideas were credible and workable, reflecting the energy regulatory system desired outcomes.

Mentored and coached engineering and technical staff.  International educational outreach to academics and professionals via International Center of Regulatory Excellence, a not-for-profit associated with the AER, and locally through the Faculty of Extension, the University of Alberta.

Senior Engineering & Regulatory Advisor

Provided experienced perspective for the Alberta energy policy "traffic cop", the Policy Management Office. The PMO occupied the space between the departments of Energy and AEP (ESRD), and the Alberta Energy Regulator, and helped those agencies build energy policy and ensured those policies aligned with delivery.

Director, Special Advisory Services

GFL Environmental Inc.

Advisor and Independent Director. Northern Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and BC.  Corporate compliance assurance for operations, based in Edmonton.  HSSE focus.

Director, GFL Environmental West

Several positions in 15 years over two terms - 1989 - 1996; 2004 - 2012.

Granted leave in April 2012 to pursue interests.

Alberta Environment.  Senior Manager, Compliance.  Approvals Engineer.  Investigator.

Plains Environmental / Rotex Energy

Oilfield waste with operations in SE Saskatchewan, Alberta and NWT.  Acquired Plains Environmental cavern facilities in SE Saskatchewan in April 2011.

Co-founder

Producers Disposal

Tier 1 ASC company.  Board member after acquisition of Natana Inc. and Rycroft Disposal Well.

Director

Took the leap to retirement on Leap Day 2024!  But still have much to contribute. Open to interesting project support work or Board Director with good people. Link if you would like to discuss!

A seasoned professional with a strong business background as founder, executive and engineer, and a unique record of comprehensive environmental, regulatory, policy and personnel management in the private and public sectors.  Sees the big picture, willing to engage and collaborate, well-connected and able to influence...

Specialties: 

Utilizing network to solve complex issues.
Propelling innovation through the energy & environmental regulatory system.
Upstream, midstream and downstream regulatory.
Industry and government policy.
Risk Assessment.
Performance Management.
Startup E&P and waste businesses.
Business development.
Oilfield waste and deep well disposal. 
Waste management.
Petroleum engineering.
Effective people management / mentoring.
Adult education, including foreign nationals.

When reviewing my experience, note that some of the positions and activities were concurrent.

[the backdrop photo in my profile is Spring Lake, Alberta.  Love living here in the quiet countryside]

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