Andrew has more than 20 years of experience as an advisor specializing in mergers and acquisitions in a broad range of industries.

Before Origin Merchant Partners, Andrew was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for Viterra, Canada’s largest integrated agri-business enterprise. Previously, Andrew was at CIBC World Markets for more than 13 years and TD Securities investment banking in Toronto, focusing on M&A.

Andrew holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and earned his C.A. designation while working at Coopers & Lybrand.

Andrew’s select transaction list include:

• Advising ILTA Grain on its asset sales
• Avena on its sale to Ironbridge
• Rodair on its sale to Rhenus
• Kraft Heinz on its acquisition of Ethical Bean Coffee
• The Scoular Company on the acquisition of Legumex Walker’s Special Crops business

Chris has over 10 years of transaction experience spanning a number of industry verticals, including: Agriculture, Food and Beverage, TMT and Healthcare.

Notable recent experience spans purchase and sale assignments, restructuring, valuation and special committee engagements. Select transaction list includes:

• Advising Buhler Industries on its sale to Asko Holding
• Advising Centricity Research on its sale to Trinity Hunt Partners
• Advising G3 on the divestiture of its shortline railway assets to Regional Rail
• Advising Velocity Trade on its significant investment from Wedbush Financial Services
• Advising Zen-Noh Grain on the divestiture of 10 US grain handling facilities to Viserion Grain
• Advising LifeSpeak on its $42 million equity investment
• Advising Economical Insurance on its demutualization
• Advising Gardiner Dam Terminal on its sale to Viterra
• Advising Kraft Heinz on its acquisition of Ethical Bean Coffee
• Advising River Cree Resort and Casino on the refinancing and restructuring of its capital structure

Prior to joining Origin in March 2017, Chris was a Vice President within the M&A team at Deloitte Corporate Finance where he executed mid-market M&A transactions. Chris holds a CPA, CA designation and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from Queen’s University.

For over 25 years, Jim has been an advisor in both public and private markets, in domestic and cross-border transactions, and in industries as diverse as consumer products, utilities, and financial services.

Jim is a Co-founder of Origin Merchant Partners, where he has advised large corporate clients (KraftHeintz, Hydro One), entrepreneurial growth companies (Wyse, Yorkville), and public boards (CareRx, Teck Resources).

Jim was an initial partner in the formation of Genuity Capital Markets where he built and ran Canada’s leading independent M&A group. Following the acquisition of Genuity, Jim became Head of Canadian Mergers and Acquisitions at Canaccord Genuity until he left the firm in 2011. Previously, Jim was a Managing Director at CIBC World Markets, with 10 years of experience in the M&A and corporate finance groups.

Jim holds a B.A. (Honours) degree from Queen’s University and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Jim earned both a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation while employed by Ernst & Young in Toronto.

Perry has over 30 years of senior retail experience. He followed his 14-year career in senior retail management with a 19-year career as a top-ranked Retail and Consumer analyst. Perry has held various management positions at Loblaw Companies, Coca-Cola and Consumers Distributing including VP-Marketing; VP-Merchandising; President and CEO. After moving to Bay Street, Perry was the number-one ranked Retail and Consumer analyst in Canada for 15 consecutive years. He was most recently Managing Director, Equity Research with CIBC World Markets.

Perry is now an independent investor, business owner and advisor. Perry is a regular speaker, commentator and writer on North American consumer topics, with a special interest in supermarkets and food systems. He has served on the Advisory Committee, Canadian Agricultural Policy Institute; the Board of Directors, Dare Foods Canada, and on the Advisory Board, Grocery Business Media.

Perry holds an MBA from Western University and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Rob has over 20 years of investment banking experience at both bank-owned and independent Canadian investment dealers, most recently as Head of Diversified Industries at Cormark Securities, and previously as a Principal at Genuity Capital Markets and Managing Director at CIBC World Markets. Rob has extensive experience managing financings and M&A transactions across multiple sectors including some of the most significant Canadian wealth management transactions.

Rob holds an Honours BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Rob’s select transaction list includes:

• Sale of Integrated Asset Management to Fiera Capital
• Advising Economical Insurance on its Demutualization
• Investment by ONCAP in Wyse Meter Solutions
• Advising on the merger and creation of Aviso Wealth
• WideWaters Hotel Development Financing
• The Scoular Company Acquisition of the Special Crops Division of Legumex Walker
• Hydrogenics Corporation Note Offering
• Sale of Blumont Capital to Arrow Capital
• Acquisition of Renewable Energy Developers by Capstone Power
• Sale of Thompsons to The Andersons and Lansing Trade Group
• Sale of BPR Engineering to Tetra Tech
• Sale of Acuity Investment Management to AGF
• Acquisition of certain assets of Dundee REIT by GE Real Estate
• Sale of UE Waterheater to Alinda Infrastructure
• Sale of Mackenzie Financial to Investors Group
• Acquisition of John Hancock by Manulife
• Sale of Assante Capital to CI Financial
• Acquisition of Trimark Financial by Invesco (Amvescap)

Shaun is a seasoned investment banker with 15 years of advisory experience at both bank-owned and independent platforms. He has been part of the Origin team for over 10 years, covering a variety of industries, with a focus on education, training and services businesses, among others.

Prior to joining Origin, Shaun started his investment banking career at Bank of Montreal, where he was a member of the M&A team. Shaun has advised on dozens of transactions throughout his career, representing several billion dollars of aggregate value and spanning North American and international clients & counterparties.

He holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business.

Some of Shaun’s notable transactions include:

• Raising growth capital for International Business University
• Advising the Special Committee of Northview Fund in its conversion to a REIT structure and a related property portfolio acquisition
• The sale of Yorkville Education to Birch Hill Equity Partners
• The sale of Dealnet Capital Corp. to Simply Group Capital Corp.
• The sale of Dapasoft Inc. to Calian Group Ltd.
• Multiple engagements with CHS Inc., a leading global agribusiness

Mr. Bromley has over 30 years of food, beverage and general leadership experience in private and public companies at both management and board levels. Most recently he served as the CEO of SunOpta Inc. (NASDAQ:STKL;TSX:SOY), a leading integrated global natural, organic and specialty foods company, where he spent approximately 15 years in a variety of roles including CFO, COO and ultimately CEO for his last 8 years.

Steve both advises, and sits on the board of a number of companies in the natural and organic foods space. Prior to SunOpta he worked for over 13 years in the Canadian dairy industry in a wide range of financial and operational roles at both Natrel Inc. and Ault Foods Limited. He served as a member of the board of directors at Natrel Inc. from 1997-1999, the board of SunOpta Inc. from 2007 to 2015, the board of Opta Minerals Inc. from 2004 to 2016 and was a member of the Rabobank North American Agribusiness Advisory Board from 2010 to 2015.

Steve is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Certified General Accountant (CGA).