August 6, 2018

About Steve Lavey

Northlight Partners is led by Steve Lavey, who is an accomplished, seasoned, entrepreneurial finance and operations executive who has helped build the operations and create over $1 billion in market value in both publicly-traded and private equity-backed companies in several industries, including waste services, freight & logistics, asset management, organic beef and internet-based technology. Steve Lavey is a high impact, entrepreneurial CFO/COO with extensive leadership, Board of Directors, company building and international experience with social impact organizations, high growth publicly-traded and PE-backed companies. He has worked with private equity portfolio companies in healthcare, business services, nonprofits, social ventures, investments and technology. He loves to mentor nonprofit teams & growth company executives, and serve on impactful Boards. Northlight Partners also includes project personnel with significant marketplace experience and expertise in operations, fleet management, freight forwarding, due diligence, systems, logistics, sales and marketing, online marketing, search engine optimization, importing and social media and networking. He also was recruited to become a professor of business and finance at Colorado Christian University.

Steve Lavey is currently serving a leadership role as an investor in Vivoblu Inc. is a Colorado-based Christian clean water company that is using its uniquely designed, purpose-built and durable water filtration solutions to cost-effectively provide access to clean water to some of the nearly 2 billion people who lack clean water. Vivoblu solves the problem of costly water filtration over the long term by providing a simple-to-use, patent-pending, long-lasting, durable water filter that does not require backwashing, to help the global poor (and disaster relief victims) get access to clean water on a cost-effective basis, with water filters that cost less and typically last for up to 2-4 years in harsh developing world conditions (which is 2-5x longer than our competitors).

Northlight Partners LLC is a growth consulting and accounting firm specializing in Strategic Growth, Financial Operations, Capital Raising services, Merger & Acquisition Advisory Services, and Corporate Development. In addition, Northlight Partners is a private equity and social impact investor, and develops new retail concepts & brands and internet website networks. Northlight Partners has expertise and resources across brand marketing, product development, sales, logistics, supply chain and sourcing to help drive growth. Northlight Partners is developing a number of new retail product brands in the lifestyle, holiday and home products and has a new product development team to manage this opportunity.

Established in 1999, Northlight Partners’ consulting arm services the middle market segment catering to businesses between $1 and $100 million in annual revenues and our personnel have over 20 years of practical experience as investors, advisors and deal makers helping companies to grow through business acquisitions, strategic partnerships, driving logistics and freight needs, and corporate development programs. In addition, Northlight Partners acts as a principal in some investments. As former senior executives of successful growth companies that grew a total of more than $500 million in revenues, we are able to offer our client base practical advice based on real world experience and knowledge. Northlight has a broad range of market knowledge and has an extensive network of contacts with strategic buyers, private equity groups, individual investors and other buyers seeking a market presence in the United States.

Social Impact Investors

Northlight Partners also operates as an impact investment firm that invests as a principal, as well as manages and advises social enterprises, SMEs and social impact funds. Northlight Partners supports businesses that are committed to generating positive, sustainable and demonstrable social and environmental impact while complying with a commercial imperative. Based in Denver, with broad experience in Africa and Asia, Northlight Partners is ideally suited to advise investors and to the emerging economies that are home to many of the most exciting socially entrepreneurial investment opportunities.

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