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Firdaus Pohowalla is a Managing Director at Cascadia Capital with broad advisory and financing experience.  Firdaus heads Cascadia’s industrials coverage group providing strategic advice and developing tailored solutions to complex problems for clients.  His expertise is in identifying solutions that pair client objectives with feasible capital markets options.

We sat down with Firdaus to learn about Cascadia Capital’s recent announcement. It turns out that they are going to address what they call the Fourth Industrial Revolution. They believe they are one of the nation’s first emerging growth investment banking practice groups dedicated to Robotics, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence (“RAAI”).

Listen to the audio cast on our Great Conversation in Leadership series and learn what they see as the market forces driving this and how you might evaluate your next steps as an end user, service provider, or technology vendor.

With seven investment banking professionals and over 100 years of combined experience, the Cascadia team has significant industry knowledge and a successful track record of advising companies in the RAAI space.

We discussed the fundamentals that are driving this revolution including the sensors proliferating unstructured data, the advent of computing power, the pandemic accelerating trends that were already in place, and global risk.

Firdaus reminded me that for all the talk of technology optimizing the business processes in our country, we still have a labor inefficiency that is creating a staggering shortfall. The question on the table will be our country’s willingness to address the social issue behind the technology advances that have already occurred and stand ready to make up for the gap.

The technology will also have to be purchased, deployed, staffed, and maintained. The question will be, will businesses augment their staffing by deploying as-a-service models. We are seeing computing hardware and robotics begin to offer this and expect to see a surge in this in the future. This will also require, for a time, a human in the loop.

Cascadia will be working its high touch regional/global model to assist with mergers and acquisitions and capital to this exploding market.

Remember, the full audio cast is free once you enroll in our program.

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