Marek Panfil

Diligent and experienced Business Valuator, published author / co-author of 40 articles and ten books about business and intangible assets valuation. Innovative and collaborative Strategic Advisor identifying value drivers for publicly listed and privately held companies. Creative and engaging Senior Lecturer with over ten years of experience in teaching university-level courses in Poland and Canada.

Business Valuator

  • Marek has over 10 years of experience in business valuation, including two years at Ernst & Young (EY) Vancouver (Transaction Advisory Service, Valuation and Business Modeling)
  • He successfully completed Chartered Business Valuation (CBV) Level I (Introduction to Valuation), Level II (Intermediate Business Valuation), Level III (Advanced Business Valuation)
  • Marek founded and directed a Business Valuation Program for executives at SGH Warsaw School of Economics in Poland (2005-2014)
  • He co-authored Poland’s first comprehensive statement of the principles for business valuation for the Polish Federation of Associations Property Appraisers (April 2011)
  • Marek is a prolific writer with many works on business and intangible assets valuation published in Polish, English, and Chinese

Strategic Advisor

  • Marek is a highly regarded expert in the field of publicly traded corporations with a proven track record of creating long-term value for shareholders
  • For six years he served as a Chair of the Audit Committee at KGHM, a Poland-based global mining corporation (top 3 worldwide producer of silver and top 10 worldwide producer of copper)
  • For two years Marek worked as an Internal Audit Manager at KGHM International, a Vancouver-based, medium-sized mining company with operating assets in Canada, the US, and Chile
  • He authored business plans and feasibility studies to equity and debt investors

Professor

  • Marek is passionate about teaching
  • He has the ability to build caring relationships with students, he is friendly and approachable, and has superior listening and community-building skills
  • Marek has extensive international teaching experience (Kozminski University, SGH Warsaw School of Economics in Poland; SFU Beedie School of Business and VanWest College in Vancouver, Canada)
  • He enjoys teaching Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurial Finance, Business and Intangible Assets Valuation with Excel, Project Finance with Excel, Value Based Management