FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER
MANAGING PARTNER
NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
PARTNER
CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER
PARTNER
PRINCIPAL
chief financial officer
Senior Associate
Manager, Executive Operations
Executive Assistant
Reza Satchu is a Managing Partner and Founder of Alignvest Management Corporation. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience and the Founding Chairman of Next Canada, an entrepreneurship program for high-potential Canadians. He also teaches entrepreneurship as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School.
Reza began his career at Merrill Lynch in 1991 as a Financial Analyst, where he was responsible for structuring and executing high yield debt offerings. During his tenure, he completed 10 transactions aggregating over $3.5 billion in value. In 1996, he accepted a role and became a General Partner and Managing Director at Fenway Partners, a $1.4 billion U.S. private equity firm.
Over the course of his career, Reza has co-founded, built, and managed a number of businesses, including: KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, a U.S. fixed-income broker dealer with over $10 billion dollars in assets that was sold to Bank of Montreal for over $400 million; StorageNow, which became Canada’s largest self-storage company prior to being sold to InStorage REIT for $110 million; and SupplierMarket, a supply chain software company whose investors included Sequoia and KKR that was sold to Ariba for over $900 million.
Reza is passionate about sharing his entrepreneurial insights and launched Canada’s first academic center for entrepreneurship studies and business incubation, Next Canada. Through programs such as Next 36, Next AI and Next Founders, the organization works towards increasing Canadian prosperity while accelerating the trajectory of Canada’s most promising entrepreneurs.
From 2003 to 2010, Reza developed and taught Economics of Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto as an Adjunct Professor. In 2020, he began serving as a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he has taught Launching Technology Ventures and The Entrepreneurial Manager and now teaches The Founder Mindset, a top-rated course that he created.
Reza served for 10 years as a Director of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. He has been the recipient of Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40” Award, as well as the Management Achievement Award from McGill University.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in economics from McGill University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.
Sanjil Shah is a Managing Partner of Alignvest Management Corporation. He was also the Founder and Managing Partner of Alignvest Student Housing, which under his leadership grew to become Canada’s largest purpose-built student accommodation owner/operator before it was sold to Forum REIIF for $1.686 billion.
Sanjil was previously the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of StorageNow, a retail real estate business that acquired, developed, and operated 11 self-storage facilities across Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The portfolio was successfully built over a four-year period and sold to InStorage REIT for a cash consideration of $110 million. Prior to joining StorageNow, Sanjil was a Senior Manager at KPMG LLP, a global professional services firm, where he specialized in providing audit and advisory services to publicly-listed technology companies in Canada and the United States.
Sanjil has also been an instructor at York University’s Schulich School of Business, at the University of Toronto, and with the Chartered Accountants of Ontario’s School of Accountancy.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and is a CPA, CA.
Nadir Mohamed has been working at Alignvest for over 10 years and is a highly accomplished operating executive who was most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Communications Inc., the TSX and NYSE listed media and telecommunications company with an enterprise value in excess of $35 billion.
Under his leadership, Rogers became the largest wireless carrier in Canada, delivered best in class cable and wireless margins and significantly strengthened its balance sheet. Before serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers, Nadir was the President and Chief Operating Officer of the company’s Communications Group. Prior to that, Nadir was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers Wireless. Before joining Rogers in 1999, he had held senior positions at Telus Communications and at BC Telecom. Nadir currently serves on the Board of Directors of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, TD, Cineplex, and Trilogy. Nadir also serves as the Chair of Scale Up Ventures and of DMZ Ventures and is an honorary member of the Board of Governors of Ryerson University.
Nadir holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and holds a CPA, CA and FCA designation. Nadir was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2019.
Andy Moysiuk has been working with Alignvest for nine years and was previously the Managing Partner of HOOPP Capital Partners, through which the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan, Canada’s largest private trust, conducted its private equity and special situations investment business.
Over a 15-year period Andy led the creation and development of a high impact private capital business and portfolio, generating exceptional investment returns. He completed over $4 billion of investments in North America, the UK and Europe, $1 billion of which was executed in direct investments with the remainder in speciality partnerships and joint ventures typically as the initial and/or largest investor. He served on various Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards within the HOOPP portfolio, and the Asset Mix Committee within HOOPP. Andy also served on the Board Investment Committee of the United Church of Canada Pension Plan for many years.
Prior to HOOPP, Andy was a Partner at KPMG LLP, a global professional services firm, and a Founding Officer and Board Director in its regulated affiliate through which KPMG undertook its corporate finance advisory activities.
Andy holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto, is a CPA, Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program.
Lee Lau has been working with Alignvest since the firm’s inception. He co-founded ATI Technologies in 1985 and built the company into one of the world’s largest suppliers of graphic chips and add-in boards to the personal computer industry. In addition to managing the company, Lee was ATI’s largest shareholder, first employee and responsible for innovation and development of all products. Lee helped build ATI into a TSX and NASDAQ listed global market leader, with annual sales in excess of $2.2 billion and over 3,000 employees. ATI was sold in 2006 to Advanced Micro Devices for cash and stock consideration of US$5.4 billion.
Since then, Lee has managed his family office investing in a variety of alternative asset products. Prior to founding ATI, Lee held various design engineering positions with Mitel, Motorola and Plessey.
Lee holds a Masters in Engineering and a BASc from the University of Toronto.
Rupert Adams has thirty years of experience in the financial markets covering research, analysis, portfolio management and asset raising. He has sourced and made investments in multiple asset classes including public equity, private equity, hedge funds and venture capital. This has been across a global geographic area with a focus on UK, Europe, Asia and North America. Amongst other qualifications he holds the Chartered ESG Investment Manager designation from the Chartered Institute of Professional Certifications.
Rupert started his career as a credit analyst at Standard Chartered Bank in Bangkok, Thailand and subsequently worked for Indosuez W.I. Carr and Deutsche Bank from 1993-2003, based in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York and London. Rupert left to join a start up Hedge Fund – Matterhorn Investment Management – which he helped build into a $300m asset management business, before leaving to set up and launch his own Emerging Market Fund in 2007. This he ran from 2007-2011 before merging it into an alternative investment management platform called MAB Partners. In 2014 Rupert joined Alignvest Management Corporation, a Canadian private investment group with investments in student housing, life insurance, and consumer businesses, originally to set up their London office.
Rupert has spent the last 20 years involved with the family business and family office community, and the multitude of topics this covers, including the World Economic Forum Family Business Community. He has strong relationships across the institutional and family office investment world and advises a leading European family on their private investments. He has been involved in multiple activities relating to family businesses including family office investing, restructuring, succession planning, and litigation.
Other roles he holds are as an Ambassador for Alzheimer’s Society, Member of the Advisory Board of Somerset House and Chair of the UK charity for the Gallmann Memorial Foundation – the largest private nature conservancy in Kenya. He is also a trustee of the Syncona Foundation, the charitable arm of the largest funder of life science start-ups in the UK.
Prior to joining Alignvest, Andrew Kosc was a Manager at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm, where he led teams that deployed value-creation efforts for Fortune 500 Companies as well as conducted due diligence for global private equity firms and hedge funds.
He had also spent time in roles at Alphabet – both within YouTube (Google LLC), a global media platform, where he supported new product launches, as well as Google X (X, the Moonshot factory) where he designed business models and made investment decisions on early-stage bets.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University (First Class Honours) and a Masters in Business Administration with High Distinction from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).
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Celia Chan was previously the Controller since joining Alignvest in 2013. Prior to joining Alignvest, she was a Manager at Ernst & Young LLP, a global professional services firm, where she specialized in providing audit and advisory services to clients in the financial services industry, specifically asset management companies.
Celia is a CPA, CA and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Finance from the University of Toronto.
Anthony Mastromarini joined Alignvest in 2023 and is actively involved in all aspects of Alignvest’s business.
Prior to joining Alignvest, Anthony was a Private Equity Associate at Birch Hill Equity Partners, a leading Canadian mid-market private equity firm with $5 billion in AUM. While at Birch Hill, he conducted due diligence on new investment opportunities and worked on value creation projects across a number of the firm’s portfolio companies.
Anthony was previously an Investment Banking Analyst at TD Securities in Toronto, where he worked on several mergers and acquisitions, equity offerings, and debt financing transactions while in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Diversified Industries groups.
Anthony holds an HBA with Distinction (Ivey Scholar) from the Ivey Business School and graduated from Western University as a National Scholar.
Shiela Labao joined Alignvest in 2023 as Executive Support to Sanjil Shah. She has excelled as an administrative professional for over 10 years. Prior to joining Alignvest, she was the Office and HR Manager at Espresso Capital.
Shiela earned an advanced diploma in Business Administration – Management from Seneca College.
