About
Louis Garoz-Ferguson
Founder of Kadenwood. Operator first, banker second.
Louis spent eight years in marketing and sales, spending millions of his own capital on paid media and generating more than $100 million in revenue for himself and his clients, across real estate, deep tech, private equity, private credit, insurance, logistics, and energy.
That work put him in the room with two investment bankers who became his mentors and showed him how capital moves at the top: up-market positioning, high-ticket sales, and backend performance fees. He pointed the distribution machine he had built up-market.
In July 2024 he founded Kadenwood. The first transaction, $128 million, closed in three weeks. Kadenwood has since closed more than $1.2 billion in transactions across the lower-middle market and became an eight-figure investment bank in under two years.
Over the last five months he built the agentic systems that now run the firm's back end and fulfillment. Kadenwood Consulting installs that same system for other founders.
Leadership
The people on the mandate.
Louis Garoz-Ferguson
Principal
Founder of Kadenwood Consulting and Kadenwood Group, built to an eight-figure investment bank in under two years. Closed roughly $1.2 billion in transactions, generated more than $100 million in revenue, and took a $128 million first close in three weeks. Architect of Sovereign.
Harlan Ryker
Managing Partner, Business Development
Leads origination and the firm's outbound architecture, the same systems Sovereign installs for clients. Background in elite sales-system design and B2B agency operations.
Ruben Schwagermann
Managing Director, Institutional Sales
Leads live mandates and raises capital across private equity, family offices, private credit, venture, and strategic acquirers. Global capital-markets experience spanning New York, Europe, and South America.
Joshua Naudé
Managing Director, Client Affairs
Capital-markets background across M&A, venture, and fund management. Owns the client relationship through the full engagement arc, from first conversation to close.
$1.2B+
in transactions closed
$128M
first close, in three weeks
$100M+
in revenue generated
< 2 yrs
to an eight-figure investment bank
Kadenwood internal records, June 2026; gross deal values, unaudited.
The firm
Bankers who have operated.
Kadenwood Group is an independent capital-markets advisory firm and investment bank serving the lower-middle market. Kadenwood Consulting is its revenue-advisory and growth division. The rare thing is the combination: bankers who can package, sell, finance, and exit a business, who have also grown businesses from the inside. Growth, capital, debt, exit planning, and the transaction itself, under one roof.
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