Mark Morabito is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur, investor, and mining executive. He serves as CEO & Chairman of Intrepid Metals Corp. and President and CEO of King and Bay West Merchant Bank. Mark focuses on identifying, funding, developing, and managing business opportunities within and beyond the natural resources sector. His work spans public and private companies, supported by more than two decades of experience in merchant banking, corporate development, and junior mining. Over the course of his career, he has raised more than one billion dollars in capital markets. He began his professional career as a corporate finance and securities lawyer after earning his J.D. from Western University’s Faculty of Law. After several years in legal practice, he transitioned into business leadership, applying his legal and strategic background on the operating side of complex ventures. Mark has been the founder and principal driving force behind multiple successful resource development compa...
For those who know me from my work in the mining industry, it sometimes comes as a surprise to learn that I began my career as a corporate finance and securities lawyer. Many years before I founded Intrepid Metals Corp and Excalibur Metals Corp., and made the leap across the boardroom table to the business side, I worked for a premier Toronto law firm, and later a corporate finance boutique firm in Vancouver, assisting companies with raising capital and making acquisitions. After eight years of 80-hour weeks, I decided it was time for a change. The truth was, what my clients were doing excited me more than what I was doing to help them. It was time for me explore the adventure of entrepreneurship. It’s the same impulse that led me to reserve a spot on one of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic suborbital flights. Ironically, moving beyond the inner atmosphere may turn out to be easier than moving beyond the confines of corporate law as the transition was not easy at first....