Helping Your Business Build Success
Develop Your Path to Greatness
At Bursey International, the cornerstone of our business is helping your business succeed. Whether you need help with disruptive strategy, financial and corporate structuring, organizational change, board and management best practices, or acquisitions execution, Bursey International has the experience, contacts and knowledge to help you and your team succeed locally or around the world.
Founded by James and Kate Bursey in 1984, we’ve had over 30 years’ experience in helping entrepreneurs develop success, and corporations re-connect with their entrepreneurial roots. Our focus is on strategy, operations, and effective execution. We are based in the Greater Toronto Area, but our business is global, and our Managing Directors have spent more than half their working lives managing companies or undertaking projects from Seattle to Stockholm, Bangkok to Buenos Aires.
Years of practical operations experience brings a level of understanding and insight that is difficult to quantify but extremely valuable to clients. Whether its industry knowledge, providing access to key decision-makers, or demonstrating success by leading companies and closing deals, we put this knowledge to work helping our clients avoid costly mistakes. Most importantly, we develop a combination of people and new technologies into effective systems that grow our clients’ market share and profits.
Our Team – Building Your Success
James Bursey
Managing Director
Speaking five languages, James Bursey has provided solutions for clients in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has created new business opportunities, undertaken acquisitions, and managed turnarounds. James has also built businesses as an interim CEO, and has worked extensively with private equity companies undertaking strategic roll-ups. He is a recognized expert in the marine, automotive and manufacturing industries.
Kate Bursey
Managing Director
Kate is a Chartered Director (C.Dir) who focuses on governance capacity building for clients and teaches widely in Canada and the Caribbean. Kate’s background in manufacturing operations, technology transfers and strategic industrial investment for the mining, steel and automotive industries allows her to help management and directors bridge the gap between the C- suite and the boardroom.
George Vandenberg
Managing Director
George is an experienced executive and accountant who focuses his practice on financial structuring, for domestic and international clients. A CPA in both Canada and the United States, George brings years of Board of Director and operations experience to client assignments, especially those in the mining, real estate, food processing and new technology industries, in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Global Team of Associates
Bursey International builds its success on the strength of its core team, and an international group of skilled specialist practitioners and advisers. They work with us to apply their talents to complex and challenging problems and opportunities. Their diversity of background, gender, nationality, discipline and outlook ensures that our clients receive a balance of deep and broad expertise.