Charles Field-Marsham | |
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| Born | Rupert Charles Field-Marsham 29 January 1968 |
| Alma mater | Upper Canada College McGill University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse | Rita Field-Marsham [1] |
Rupert Charles Field-Marsham (born 29 January 1968) [2] is a Canadian businessman based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Field-Marsham is the second son of Rupert Charles Edward Field-Marsham and his first wife, Marilyn Maughan. [3] As a male-line descendant of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney (1685–1724), he is related to the Earls of Romney. [3] He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto [1] and then McGill University in Montreal, where he obtained a bachelor's degree with distinction in economics and politics. [4]
Field-Marsham is married to a Kenyan wife, Rita Field-Marsham, a lawyer and CEO of non-profit organization Key Libraries, a Canadian charity that invests in turnkey school libraries.
At the age of 19 and while an undergraduate at McGill University, Field-Marsham started his first successful business, Advantage Clothing. [5] After graduating from McGill, he joined Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City as a financial analyst. [4] [6]
From 1993 to 2003, Field-Marsham lived in Kenya with his wife, during which time he established and acquired several companies. [6] [7] His first move was to open a stock brokerage, Kestrel Capital, in 1995. Kestrel Capital has become Kenya's leading stock brokerage firm. [8] [9] [10] He then set up the Panafrican Group in 1996, a Komatsu distributor for mining and construction equipment across Africa.[ citation needed ] In 1997, he bought the Kenya Fluorspar Company, a loss-making state-owned company, and entered into a 20-year lease with the government. [11] The mine was to become one of the country's leading foreign currency earners. It was described as one of the largest and lowest-cost producers of fluorspar in the world. [6] [11]
In 2004, Field-Marsham moved back to Canada and founded Kestrel Capital Management Corp. (KCMC) in Toronto. [12] The company provides investment consultancy services to businesses outside of Canada. [13] [14] As of 2020, Field-Marsham is an investor of 7-Nation, a board sports company that owns, among other companies, Slingshot Sports. [15]