Gordie has experience both as an investment banker and as a senior financial executive for public and private technology companies.  Prior to joining Swiftsure in 2006, he served as head of investment banking and then COO of Delafield Hambrecht, Inc., a Seattle-based full service investment bank.
 
Gordie has served as CFO of technology companies in communications software, IT services and consumer internet services. At the start of his career, he worked for 15 years with J.P. Morgan & Co. and its affiliate Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, in New York, San Francisco and Milan. His experience during this time included a broad variety of corporate finance transactions ranging from public equity and debt offerings to cross border mergers & acquisitions advisory assignments.  
 
Gordie is the former Chairman of Geospiza and currently serves as a director of Concordia Coffee Company, General Biodiesel Seattle and Discovery Bay Games. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Seattle International Rescue Committee, an international refugee relief and resettlement organization.

Gordie earned a BA in Biology from Harvard where he was also captain of the heavyweight crew. Later he completed the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is an avid skier and road biker. Gordie and his wife Nina have two children in college and one in high school.  

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Gordon A. Gardiner