James Rybakoff Bio

Mr. Rybakoff is the Co-Founder of Akin Bay. He has led Akin Bay’s transactions since 1993, including new client development, structuring and execution for over 175 transactions, which have included: BFY Holdings, Wham-O, Sportime, VitalChek Network, MediaMath, Omni Surgical, Horizon AG, CulinArt Group, and Quantum Information Resources. From 2003-2006, he advised a large Chinese conglomerate based in Hong Kong, (which owned the master product license from Marvel Entertainment as well as being a major investor in Marvel) on several buy-side/ sell-side acquisitions and financing covering consumer products, textiles, toys, put door activities, sport equipment, plastic injection molding manufacturing, and packaging. During this period he lived in Kowloon, China. From 1999-2002, Mr. Rybakoff was co-founder, CFO and equity sponsor of Ceres Capital LLC, which managed over $2.0 billion in assets before it was sold in 2002 to a financial services company. From 1991-1992, he was associated with a merchant bank focused on mergers and acquisitions, for several Australian based conglomerates, which included: Pacific Dunlop, Goodman Fielder, Western Mining Ltd., GNB Batteries, and Eastman Office Products. In 1990, he was an analyst in the M&A group of R.D. Capital, Inc. /ADCO Group, Inc., a distressed real estate hedge fund. Mr. Rybakoff is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania /The Wharton School of Business. He has served as a director for several private companies and over 10 years of a public company.