About Us
My name is Jim Zsebok and I'm the founder of RTZ Group. I was fortunate to have a very successful 30+ year career which began with large multinational publicly traded companies. The executive training programs offered to me were extraordinary and I was surrounded by the very best in information systems and more importantly best-in-class business practices which had been perfected over time. Skills learned were far more than just preparing working paper files for the annual audits and financial reporting which included complex general ledger structures and procedures which were designed to handle the numerous reporting standards given their global operations. My practical work experience in various roles includes product pricing/costing, ERP implementation, business planning/forecasting, capital expenditure justifications and operating results analysis.

Imperial Chemicals (FTSE30: ICI)
3rd Largest Chemical Company in the World.

Siemens AG (DAX30: SIE)
Automotive
Caradon PLC (LSE:CRN.LN)
Sold to Honeywell in 2005

TRIAM Automotive (TSX:TRU)
Sold to Magna and Flex-N-Gate in 1998
When Flex-N-Gate buys TRIAM Automotive (Tecumseh, ON plant) it has 6 plants and revenues of approximately $200MM. In the 16 years that followed my colleagues and I grew Flex-N-Gate to $4.6 billion in revenue with 46 plants worldwide primarily through acquisitions. I often said "it is easy to build a multi-billion dollar company when you have been immersed in them earlier in your career" and certainly my "in the trenches" training was crucial to my effectiveness when doing M&A due diligence. In addition, to M&A due diligence as CFO I also earned the trust of bank syndicates which afforded us nearly a billion in credit facilities, actively hedged the company's global FX exposure, reduced our tax liabilities and managed the investment portfolio of the 367th richest family in world based on the Forbes list when I left the company in 2014.



I retired in 2015 and made some investments in some businesses but realized nobody cared more about my family's money than I did and my sons were still in university. Got a call from a friend making an investment in a consumer packaged goods company and got them out of special loans with their bank and basically got the bug and have been helping other entrepreneurs ever since. Global competition is fierce and we are forever keeping up to date with advancement in technology that will allow North American businesses to compete globally which I think makes us different than other business/financial advisors. Below is my resume if you want further information into my work experience, industry experience and investment experience.
