Quentin Casey

"“We felt like we could do anything,” Michael explained. “No challenge was insurmountable. You could go to him with anything, and it would be all about finding a solution... If you came to him with two different ideas and one was really just a small idea and the other one was a gigantic, improbable idea, he will absolutely be way more excited about the improbable idea.”"

"The deal, negotiated in early 2012, “propelled” Ocean Nutrition’s profits and value, provided surety of supply, and further added to the company’s global reach—offices in Europe and Shanghai, powder manufacturing in Wisconsin and Nova Scotia, and oil processing in Peru. The significance of adding the Peruvian business became evident on May 18, 2012, with DSM’s purchase of Ocean Nutrition for $ 540 million. (According to Risley, the final price was closer to $ 600 million by the time the deal closed two months later.) Just a year earlier, DSM had offered $ 320 million. The sale meant Richardson Capital had earned a 20-to 30 percent annualized rate of return on its first investment in Ocean Nutrition, and a 40-to 50 percent rate of return on its second investment. (Richardson had paid a total of $ 70 million for its 45 percent stake.) CFFI earned a 21 percent return on its investment, based on a gain of $ 210 million."