Paul Zaidins
Helping people achieve their goals.
- Role
- Founder and Managing Partner at Bonefish Capital
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Paul Zaidins
Paul Zaidins serves as the Chairman and CEO of DataSpan Holdings, Inc. DataSpan is a national technology solutions provider that helps our customers accomplish more with fewer resources. Mr. Zaidins is Managing Partner and Founder of Bonefish Capital. Bonefish Capital is a Merchant Banking firm focusing on advising and investing in Middle Market companies in the Technology, Route Based Services (Document Destruction, and Records Management), Amusement, Manufacturing and Distribution industries.Previous to founding Bonefish Capital, Mr. Zaidins was the interim CEO of New London Communications. He led New London through a successful restructuring. Under Mr. Zaidins leadership, New London achieved a quarter over quarter revenue increase of over twenty percent as well as improving employee morale and key vendor relationships. Prior to New London, Mr. Zaidins led American Locker through a successful turnaround which included re-branding it as the “orange key” company. While at Locker, he successfully lobbied the US Congress as part of a coalition of key business leaders that resulted in the passage of a tax provision that resulted in a seven-figure tax refund to Locker. Mr. Zaidins was instrumental in helping American Locker support FedEx in their development of the Ship & Get™ lockers. He led the negotiations that resulted in American Locker securing a contract to provide lockers as a service at Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland which included American Locker employees providing frontline support to Disney guests. Mr. Zaidins has significant middle market investment banking and independent sponsor experience as a Managing Director at Lane-Link Group and Vice-President at ECDI Capital. The principals of ECDI have subsequently rebranded the firm Valesco Industries. Mr. Zaidins started his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.
Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
Mar 2014 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Bonefish Capital is a Merchant Banking firm focusing on advising and investing in Middle Market companies in the Technology, Route Based Services (Document Destruction, and Records Management), Amusement, Manufacturing and Distribution industries. Our advisory services include investment banking and strategic planning. Our acquisition of DataSpan was a finalist for D CEO\'s 2015 M&A Awards.
Education
University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
BS, Business Administration
1986 — 1990
San Diego State University
IAAPA Institute for Executive Education - Certificate (no degree), Strategic Leadership in Attractions
2012 — 2012
Skills
- Executive Management
- Turnaround Experience
- Business Planning
- Operations Management
- Manufacturing
- Business Acquisition Financing
- Public Companies
- Due Diligence
- Capital Raising
- Change Management
- Branding & Identity
- Operational Excellence
- Leadership
- Private Equity
- Valuation
- Cpa
- Financial Analysis
- Mergers
- Competitive Analysis
- Strategy
- Restructuring
- Acquisitions
- Capital
- Exit Strategies
- Acquisition Integration
- Corporate Finance
- Ceos
- Investment Banking
- Transition Planning
- Business Acquisition
- Finance
- Management
- Marketing
- Business Strategy
- Forecasting
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Lean Manufacturing
- Sales
- Business Development
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