Marcel spent 5 years on Bay Street researching technology and clean technology companies. For ten years prior to that, he was an electronics and software engineer, gaining hands-on experience designing analog radio frequency circuits, high-speed digital controls, power systems, gigabit laser communications, mixed-signal printed circuit boards, and HDL, C, C++, Java and LabVIEW software. Marcel is also an author, having published the book Pearl in the Garbage Dump, accounting for the time he lived in the slums of Mumbai, India as a volunteer teacher. He joined Sophic Capital in 2014.

Prior to joining Sophic Capital, Eric ran a start-up US CPG direct-to-consumer brand called Yesterday, which he co-founded in 2019. Eric was instrumental in building out all aspects of the business including the company’s transactional website, supply chain, operations team, financial systems, and full digital marketing system.

Previously, Eric spent twelve years on Bay Street, including six years on the sell-side covering the consumer and retail sectors, most recently as a member of Canada’s top-ranked Retail and Consumer equity research team. He left the sell-side to join a Toronto-based asset manager as its first investment hire. For over five years, Eric employed an extensive due diligence process, utilizing fundamental bottoms-up analysis to identify undervalued investments across consumer facing sectors throughout North America with a focus on small and mid-cap equities.

He has a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and earned his CFA designation in 2012.