BOBBY GENOVESE

BOBBY GENOVESE

What could Ontario farms, venture capital, reality TV and polo possibly have in common? Only Bobby Genovese. Armed with high-powered marketing savvy and a penchant for picking winners, Bobby is a self-styled entrepreneur who founded his first company at age 25 with a ninth grade education and a hunger to succeed.

Far from his roots in the farmland of northern Ontario and a planned equestrian career, Bobby’s passion for business could not be contained and he rapidly emerged into the world of capitalist matchmaking. He launched the Investor Relations Group (IRG) in Vancouver, B.C., where he effectively positioned privately-held and undervalued companies to compete in the public arena. Foreseeing greater opportunity in the U.S, Bobby sold his IRG interest in 1995 and founded the BG Capital Management Corp., which specializes in turning undervalued companies into profitable ventures. The company’s many successes include Clearly Canadian, The Neptune Society and Neptune Memorial Reef, a first-of-its-kind ecological resting site off the coast of Miami. But that’s not all. Bobby stars in the reality TV series, Bobby G: Adventure Capitalist, which hit the airwaves on MOJO TV in January 2008.

In the midst of all of his business deals, Bobby found a way back to his old love of horses through a new passion – polo. From the time he watched his first Polo match he was smitten with the speed and excitement of the sport. “I hadn’t ridden horses since I was a 17-year-old farm boy living in northern Ontario, but I wondered how hard could it be to ride a horse and hit a ball?” Bobby soon found out, approaching polo not unlike every challenge – with vigor and authority. He invested in a few months of lessons and soon became a top-rated player; then he invested in 30 horses and created the Vancouver International Polo Team. His success on the field rivals that in the business world.