About Us

Company Overview

INTERNATIONAL – INDEPENDENT – ENTREPRENEURIAL

Keira Capital  (“Keira”) is a Canadian company providing advisory services to clients pursuing mergers and acquisitions or financing projects.

OUR MISSION

Keira Capital, with a diversified expertise, provides tangible results to a wide range of industries.

Our Team

Jean Desmarais

Managing Partner


+1 438 381-6004 #2
+1 514 898-5326
jdesmarais@keiracapital.com

Jean holds twenty years of experience in the financial sector with a wide expertise in corporate finance, options strategies and compliance. He started his career at BMO Nesbitt Burns as an Investment Advisor before becoming Vice President, Branch Manager at Desjardins Securities. He also has significant Boards experience in publicly listed and private corporations, including audit committees, governance and strategic positioning. Jean also serves as a special advisor for high net worth families and institutions.

Jacques L. Drouin

Managing Partner


+1 438 381-6004 #1
+1 514 817-3128
jdrouin@keiracapital.com

Jacques has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and executive positions. After 15 years working for BMO Nesbitt, KPMG Corporate finance, and Deloitte Corporate finance as an expert in private and public financings and M&A transactions; Jacques became CFO and eventually CEO of one of the largest upstream O&G process equipment provider trading on the TSX, with offices in North America, Europe, Middle-East, and Asia. Jacques is a Top 40 under 40 award winner and a 2008 Rising Star recipient of Oilweek Magazine.

Olivier Boulva

Partner

BCL & LLB
McGill Faculty of Law

MBA
INSEAD


+1 438 381-6004 #3
+1 514 561-5467
oboulva@keiracapital.com

Olivier has over 10 years of corporate-advisory, M&A, financing, strategy and real estate experience. Prior to joining the team, he started his career in private practice in business law at Stikeman Elliott LLP. He further gained experience in strategy and corporate development working with a national real estate developer. Olivier holds BCL and LLB degrees from McGill University and a MBA from INSEAD.

Anne Martel, MBA, ICD.D

BCom Finance

BFA Art History & Film
Concordia

MBA
Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management)


+1 514 591 4859
amartel@keiracapital.com

Anne is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with successful exits in the deep tech (artificial intelligence) and medical sectors. She was most recently the co-founder and CAO of the AI enterprise products and solutions provider Element AI (acquired by ServiceNow). Over 10 years of experience in creating, expanding, reorganizing and selling businesses, leading complex business activities, raising over 230M USD for her own companies, as well as managing global and multidisciplinary teams in a highly competitive talent market. She holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and degree in fine arts and finance from Concordia. She is an avid art lover and philanthropist, and sits on the boards of the OSMO foundation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Foundation and University of Montreal.

Philippe Tardif

Partner

LLB
Laval University

MBA
London Business School


+1 418 264 9104
ptardif@keiracapital.com

Philippe has over 5 years of corporate-advisory, M&A, financing, and strategy experience. Prior to joining the team, he started his career in private practice in business law. He further gained experience in investment banking working at Scotiabank within the financial institutions group (FIG), where he worked on the merger between SSQ and La Capitale and the $2.3B IPO of Definity Financial. Philippe holds a LLB degree from Laval University and an MBA from London Business School.

Jocelyn Dumas

Bachelor in Public Accounting and CA-CPA
McGill University


+1 514 515-8479
jdumas@keiracapital.com

Jocelyn has over 30 years of experience in strategic planning, operation, finance, M&A, in the retail, distribution and manufacturing sectors in Canada, United States, and Europe. Jocelyn was recently Executive Chairman of Groupe Bikini Village, General Manager of Holt Renfrew and Ogilvy in Quebec, and COO of Liz Claiborne. He previously held various executive management positions, including VP Business development at Imasco Ltd.

Edouard Bridel


+44 77 10 74 61 69
ebridel@keiracapital.com

Edouard has 28 years expertise in the financial and banking industry. He developed an expertise in structured finance transactions, balance sheet restructuring, strategic advisory and M&A advice. He led the buyout of the UK bank “Bank & Clients PLC” from Virgin Entreprises in 2014 and was then for 7 years Head of Business Development and Board member, based in London and Montreal. He co-founded Ocean Capital in 2002 an FCA regulated asset manager focused on lending to medium to large companies in Europe and North America. These financings have enabled clients to access in excess of £22 billion of total liquidity. In 1996, he co-founded Forum Capital, a regulated specialist investment bank focused on mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts (‘‘LBO’’) and balance sheet restructuring, primarily in the UK, Canada and Continental Europe, he started his career in 1993 in the mergers and acquisitions department (‘‘M&A’’) of Societe Generale in London.

Stéphane Rochon

MBA, BIBC, ADM.A


+1 514 880-3345
srochon@keiracapital.com

Stephane began his career in the 90s as the owner of an insurance, property and casualty and financial services firm. He then successfully held various positions within major Canadian financial institutions as manager for business services as well as wealth management. For the past ten years, Stephane has used his knowledge as well as his extensive business network to support his clients in the realization of their various projects. He specializes in consulting, financing, mergers & acquisitions, as well as commercial and mortgage real estate brokerage.

Stéphane Dallaire

MBA, CFA, CPA, CPA (USA)


+1 514 234-2544
sdallaire@keiracapital.com

Mr. Dallaire has over 25 years of experience leading financial operations, private equity investments, M&A, and asset dispositions in High Tech, Entertainment, Telecom, IT, Solar, Hydrogen and Renewable Energy. He has held positions such as Managing Partner at a boutique investment firm in Montreal as well as CEO, CFO, Executive Vice President, VP Corporate Development and Board Member for technology companies. Mr. Dallaire has also received his certification in Artificial Intelligence from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Holder of the CFA, CMA, CPA and CPA (USA) designations, Stephane also has a B.B.A from HEC Montreal in Finance, an Executive MBA and a Specialized Graduate degree in Accounting from University of Quebec. He is also an active member of the CFA Institute, l’Ordre des CPA du Québec, the Illinois Board of Examiners, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.

Philip Adam

CPA


+1 514 209-9000
padam@keiracapital.com

Proud of more than 29 years of experience in accounting, finance and management in addition to holding the CPA title, he held various management positions as controller and family wealth manager. Over the past 10 years, he perfected his knowledge of business financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Skilled negotiator and focused on client needs, he promotes team-work in order to realize client projects.

Sébastien Guyon

CPA


+1 514 503-9733
sguyon@keiracapital.com

Sebastien has over 15 years of experience in accounting, finance and management as a CPA. Entrepreneur, he worked as controller and CFO for several SMEs in Quebec. For the last 5 years, he has focused mainly on providing mergers and acquisitions and financing services to his clients.

Dominique Labrecque

Bachelor of Commerce, Finance and International Business
McGill

Master in taxation
Sherbrooke University


+1 514 346-8848
dominique.labrecque@keiracapital.com

Dominique has been in the work force for over 25 years. For more than 10 years, Dominique acted for top tier accounting firms, as a tax specialist for small businesses and personal tax planning. Dominique was also head of the translation department, ensuring among other things compliance of public company annual reports and public offerings.

For the last 15 years, Dominique acted as an independent consultant offering her accounting and tax expertise to a wide spectrum of clients.

Jonathan Anctil

CPA, MBA


(418) 805-7160
janctil@keiracapital.com

Jonathan has over 5 years of experience in corporate finance, investment and audit. Prior to joining Keira, Jonathan began his career at KPMG, where he was involved in several transactions in the manufacturing and technology sectors, as well as assisting start-ups in their seed/pre-seed financing rounds via KPMG Venture. Following his time with KPMG, he contributed to investments in companies of various sectors and sizes as part of Fondaction's Private Market Investment team.