Michael brings a combined set of experiences to Capital d'Experience across both investing and operations. Having started his career in investment banking at TD Bank before moving into private equity investing at TorQuest Partners, Michael then transitioned into a more operational role as CFO of Polycor, a global dimensional stone producer. These past roles have provided Michael with a diverse skillset across M&A and financing execution, but also a strong appreciation for what it means to actually work in day-to-day operations and the challenges facing management. These perspectives remain top of mind for Michael as Managing Director of Capital d'Experience.
An experienced and approachable team
We built and ran companies before investing in anyone else’s.
How the team is organised
An operating executive recognized for his ability to scale businesses, with over fifteen years spent structuring and growing industrial operations across North America, Europe and Africa. Known for turning operational excellence, commercial strategy and financial discipline into profitable growth, through an engineer’s mindset, methodical execution and the conviction that performance starts with people.
Mobilizing teams through concrete growth initiatives is what brings collective success. Our experience is built on collaboration and communication.
Her career shaped her in the art of building. Establishing a department, mobilising teams at a distance, all while carving out her own place as a woman leader in a conservative business sector.
Her commitment to building solid teams and durable strategies guides everything she does.
Every project is a venture whose purpose is the lasting alignment of interests.
A graduate of the Grande École programme at EM Lyon business school, after a path shaped by sport, he cut his teeth in corporate bank financing before supporting companies through their fundraising.
A master’s graduate in finance from HEC Montréal, where he stood out for the excellence of his academic record, having passed all three levels of the CFA exam. Trained in market risk management at a major Canadian bank, in asset allocation within a student-run investment fund and in teaching financial statement analysis, he combines quantitative rigour with a genuine curiosity for businesses.
Advisors
Senior Advisors
Orchestrating growth and financing is a colossal challenge. Our experience makes for growth that is balanced, secure and lasting.
An accomplished business leader with a proven track record of building and growing companies across international markets. Known for turning organizations into industry leaders through innovative thinking, strategic execution and a commitment to long-term growth and value creation.
A rare entrepreneurial profile, combining the discipline of a financier with the boldness of someone who builds and grows companies over the long term. Founder of a company that became a global player in its sector and a director of several North American corporations, bringing recognized expertise in mergers and acquisitions, financing and governance.
A graduate in law from Université Laval and, for eight years, the principal legal advisor of an international industrial group, serving as its corporate secretary and as a director of its European subsidiary. A specialist in the manufacturing sector: risk assessment, governance and regulatory compliance. Recognized for supporting acquisitions, mergers, financings and restructurings.
Our mission
To build long-term engines of growth that respect capital and people, while contributing to the progress of society.
Our values
Integrity in business
Being fair and transparent in one’s actions and relationships, particularly in difficult situations.
It is a line.
Invisible to some.
Uncrossable to others.
You never see it.
Until the day it is missing.
And then, too late, it is all you see.
Humanity in business
Sharing experience rather than keeping it, and treating people as the part of a company that lasts longest.
Power and force impress for a moment.
Human presence remains.
For a long time.
Shared experience turns mistakes and successes into leverage for building trust. For building companies that last, and that are humane.
Because entrepreneurship is, before anything else, a human undertaking.
Quiet strength in business
Holding the course over time without needing to occupy the stage, particularly when being noticed would be easier.
It is not “less”.
It is everything.
Without the noise.
It did not impose itself.
It stayed.
It held.
And in the end,
it was all anyone could see.