Senior Leadership Team
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Meet Kinterra's Senior Leadership
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 M.Sc. at Columbia University. Ms. Brandon is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder 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.
henry lole
Henry Lole has been 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 private equity fund 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.
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 Science 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.
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Graeme Weeks
Graeme Weeks is the Global Head, Project Execution for Kinterra, with over 30 years experience in the mining and metals industry.
Prior to Kinterra, Graeme was the Chief Operating Officer of ArcelorMittal Mines and Infrastructure, overseeing operational excellence, strategic growth initiatives and the execution of mining and infrastructure projects at scale. Graeme has extensive experience as a mining and mineral engineering executive with considerable international experience in operations, investment and innovation. He has held progressively senior roles as Chief Advisor - Rio Tinto Energy Developments, Investment Professional - Greenstone Capital and Group Manager - Operations for Xstrata.
Graeme holds an Honors degree in Engineering (Mining) from the University of Wollongong, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment, and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Adam Bill
Adam Bill is the Head of Investment Origination, in this role he is responsible for the leadership and support of Kinterra's investment origination, transaction structuring, execution, and investment management functions.
Adam has over 17 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining Kinterra, Adam was a Managing Director and Head of Metals and Mining for Moelis Australia and has spent his career advising clients in the Metals and Mining sector across a broad range of transactions involving public market and private M&A, equity and debt capital market, stream and royalty financings. Prior to joining Moelis Australia, Adam worked for Treadstone Resource Partners, Credit Suisse and Barclays Bank in Sydney and London.
Adam holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland and is a qualified lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Whales.
