Neil Gunn

In addition to co-founding the Venture North Group, Neil is co-founder and co-manager of Anchorage Equity Partners, a private equity fund investing in Alaska based projects and companies as well as the owner of IFR and Associates, an accounting consulting firm.

Neil has passed required exams for the Series 7, 63 and 24 securities licenses.

Neil has served in the offices of the Governor of Alaska and Mayor of the Municipality of Anchorage as an internal management consultant charged with applying private sector strategic planning to public sector operations, thereby tying public dollars to measurable results. Neil has also worked and consulted for Alaska Native Corporations in executive level finance and accounting roles.

Prior to moving to Alaska in 2000, Neil spent many years working in Mexico for large international manufacturing companies. He brings over 17 years of national and international experience in the areas of finance and accounting, business transactions, performance leadership strategies, global product manufacturing, business process reengineering, and spend management strategies in the public and private sectors.

Neil earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, with an emphasis on cost management, from the University of Arizona. He also completed a senior executive program in 2003 at Harvard University which focused on performance leadership in government and how to produce results within the context of a permanent fiscal crisis.