Kent Road Capital Team

David is a tenured private equity executive, having spent 18 years at Onex Corporation, a Toronto-based global private equity firm, including ten years as a Managing Director. David has invested through several economic cycles and has been a key player on a number of successful investments, and also one or two tough investments where many lessons were learned. David led Onex’s investing activities in the North American packaging, machinery & equipment, and consumer sectors and has experience with virtually all types of transactions including take-privates, IPOs, sponsor-to-sponsor, carve-outs, tuck-ins, and selling to strategic buyers. David led or co-led investments totaling ~US$2 billion of equity and worked on transactions totaling ~US$3 billion of equity. During 2020 and early 2021, David served as an advisor to Finance Canada and then as CEO of Canada Enterprise Emergency Funding Corp., a Federal Crown Corporation charged with implementing the Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility (LEEFF) program to provide liquidity to large Canadian companies impacted by COVID-19. Before joining Onex, David worked for McKinsey & Co. in New York and Toronto. David qualified as a chartered accountant, has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a B.Comm. from University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. David has been a board member of various private and public companies based in Canada, the U.S., Germany, and Switzerland.