Todd Lazenby

About Todd Lazenby

I am the founding partner of Royal Ascot Partners and Victory Partners and bring over 25 years of private equity, investment banking, and corporate finance experience to the firm. I have held senior level positions in start-ups, mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies. Victory Partners is a boutique investment banking firm catering to family owned businesses in the lower middle market. We sell, recap, and turn-around businesses between $15M and $150M in revenue. Our sweet spot is $35M in EV. Royal Ascot Partners is an investment and advisory firm catering to high net worth families and family offices making control investments in companies comprising over $300 million in enterprise value and have arranged and overseen in excess of $3.0 billion in capital markets and mergers & acquisitions transactions. Prior to founding VP and RAP, I was the Managing Partner of Summit Capital Partners in Los Angeles, then the managing partner of WP Capital Partners, L.P. in Dallas, both merchant banking firms representing middle market companies on a national basis. Previously, I was a founding principal of Affinity Finance in San Francisco, where I was instrumental in developing a joint venture with a leading California bank and developing the company’s asset securitization platform. Prior to forming Affinity, I held the position of Group Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, managing the bank’s national home equity, student lending, and unsecured consumer lending divisions. I have served on numerous private and public companies and national charity boards. I have been an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at SMU’s Cox School of Business, TCU’s Neeley School of Business, Baylor’s Hankammer School of Business, Loyola University’s Sellinger School of Business, Johns Hopkins’ Carey School of Business, and the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business.

Experience

1. Executive Board Member

   Palm Beach Opera

   Jul 2020 — Present · US

Education

• Florida State University

  BS, Communications

  1984 — 1986

• Barry University - Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law

  Secured Transactions & Securities Law

  1992 — 1994

• Florida State University Herbert Wersheim College of Business Excellence

  MBA, Finance

  1993 — 1995

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Master of Science - MS, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics

  1997 — 1998

Skills

• Corporate Finance
• Executive Management
• Private Equity
• Negotiation
• International Business
• Investments
• Structured Finance
• Investment Banking
• Financial Management
• Financial Modeling
• Due Diligence
• Change Management
• Start-Ups
• Business Strategy
• Strategic Planning
• Venture Capital
• Management
• Managerial Finance
• Outsourcing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship