Charles Field-Marsham
Canadian businessman
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Rupert Charles Field-Marsham (born 29 January 1968)[2] is a Canadian businessman based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
29 January 1968
McGill University
Charles Field-Marsham | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rupert Charles Field-Marsham 29 January 1968 |
| Alma mater | Upper Canada College McGill University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Spouse | Rita Field-Marsham[1] |
Early life and education
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.
Career
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]
Philanthropy
- The Charles and Rita Field-Marsham Foundation – established in 2009.[16]
- Kenya Scholar Access Project (KENSAP) – became chairman and major sponsor in 2005;[17][18] an initiative that has helped secure scholarships for over 200 high-achieving disadvantaged Kenyan students in elite U.S. universities.[19] KENSAP produced it first Harvard graduate, Kipyegon Amos Kitur, in 2009.[20]