Senior Leadership Team
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Meet Kinterra's Senior Leadship
Our senior leadership team brings decades of experience in private equity and critical materials, combining investment discipline with deep technical expertise to build lasting value.
Kamal Toor
Kamal Toor is the Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Kinterra Capital and has led private equity funds in raising over $3.5B in capital. Prior to Kinterra Capital, Mr. Toor was a founding partner of a mining-focused private equity fund, where he was a key person and served on the firm’s Investment Committee and Valuation Committee.
Mr. Toor has over 20 years of experience in institutional asset management, transaction structuring, and capital deployment, and has led numerous complex transactions across both emerging and stable jurisdictions. Mr. Toor has led transactions involving public and private M&A, bankruptcies, joint ventures, hostile bids, offtake and downstream integration arrangements and proxy battles, amongst other matters.
Prior to his career in private equity, Mr. Toor practiced corporate law at Allen & Overy LLP, a global Magic Circle firm in Europe and across Asia. In addition to holding an undergraduate business degree and multiple law degrees, Mr. Toor has completed an MBA at Cornell University.
Cheryl Brandon
Cheryl Brandon is the Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Kinterra and has led private equity funds in raising over $3.5B in capital. Prior to Kinterra, Ms. Brandon was a founding partner of a mining-focused private equity fund, where she was a key person and served on the firm’s Investment Committee and Valuation Committee.
Ms. Brandon has over 20 years of experience managing capital on behalf of tier-1 global institutions. Prior to her career in private equity, Ms. Brandon co-managed resource investment strategies at alternative asset management firms in Toronto and New York.
Ms. Brandon was recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 in Canada in 2021 and received the Distinguished Graduate Award. She completed the Rotman Institute of Corporate Directors Designation and completed an MSc at Columbia University. Ms. Brandon is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charter Holder and a member of the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts.
LAura fernandez
Laura Fernandez is a Partner at Kinterra and is responsible for Regulatory Affairs and
Sustainability. Ms. Fernandez serves on Kinterra's Sustainability Committee.
Ms. Fernandez previously served as a Principal, Associate General Counsel, and Corporate Liaison for Environmental and Permitting at a large mining focused private equity fund, where she played a pivotal role in managing the execution of the firm’s transactions and overseeing key due diligence and value creation matters.
Ms. Fernandez also led a group of environmental and permitting professionals with over 70 years of collective experience in the field. She oversaw the progression of the VCIs at the portfolio companies, helping to ensure their successful completion. Ms. Fernandez has led the permitting of several mines and large infrastructure projects and has also participated in pivotal regulatory and policy reform efforts across the industry. Ms. Fernandez holds a J.D. from the University of Ottawa and a Master’s in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School.
aggrey ruganzu
Aggrey Ruganzu has been part of the Kinterra team since its inception. Mr. Ruganzu leads Kinterra's legal team and is responsible for all legal, regulatory and governance matters across the firm and its portfolio companies. He partners with the investment group from origination through exit, running diligence, structuring, and execution of acquisitions. He also oversees fund formation, advises on governance and manages regulatory risk.
Prior to joining Kinterra, Mr. Ruganzu was an associate with Stikeman Elliott LLP, a leading Canadian law firm, for five years, where he practiced corporate law with a focus on securities and M&A. Mr. Ruganzu holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science from the University of Ottawa. Mr. Ruganzu was called to the Ontario Bar in 2017 and is a member of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers and Law Society of Ontario.
henry lole
Henry Lole has been a part of the Kinterra team since its inception. Mr. Lole leads the geology evaluation as well as value creation planning and execution for Kinterra's diverse real asset portfolio, helping to ensure technical excellence within his discipline.
Mr. Lole has experience in both exploration and resource geology. Prior to joining Kinterra, Mr. Lole served as a Senior Resource Geologist at a leading ~$2B investment adviser and worked as a Geological Consultant on a variety of commodities across North America, Africa, and Europe.
Mr. Lole has a Citation in Applied Geostatistics from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Exploration and Resource Geology from Cardiff University.
edward vesel
Edward Vesel is Kinterra's Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the Firm's Finance, Information Technology, People & Culture, Investor Relations and Compliance mandates. Edward brings a distinctive combination of mining-sector, private-equity, large dual-listed public companies, and Big Four public accounting expertise that is particularly valuable to Kinterra.
Prior to joining Kinterra, Edward held Finance leadership roles at private equity firms including Starlight Investments with $30 billion in AUM across more than 50 individual funds, at senior gold miners including Agnico Eagle Mines and Kinross Gold, and in public accounting with KPMG LLP. Edward has led large teams through transformational strategic change, achieving best practices in financial controls and reporting, technological innovation, talent development and operating performance through a centre of excellence shared services model.
Edward is a Canadian CPA, CA, and holds MBA and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from the University of Windsor. He serves as Kinterra’s Chief Compliance Officer and Chairs its Valuation Committee and Compliance Committee.