FIRST WARD CAPITAL
Corporate Defectors
We walked away from lucrative careers to pursue balance and purpose. Our grandparents and parents were and are micro and small business owners. Our pursuit is to acquire a successful enterprise in our region and overlay the professional expertise gained from scaling startups and operating public companies.
The Old First Ward is a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY on the city’s southern edge along the Buffalo River. It has a long and rich cultural history that was shaped by the city’s industrial development and the immigrant communities that settled in the area.
The First Ward was located near the harbor and the city’s commercial district, making it a convenient place for workers to live.
My Grandfather worked in the nearby grain elevators, which were invented in Buffalo in the 1840s and helped make the city one of the biggest grain ports in the world. The back-breaking work involved hauling burlap sacks by hand, with work taking as long as seven 12-hour work days to unload one boat.
