Kestrel Capital Chairman is Canadian-born entrepreneur Charles Field-Marsham whose businesses are concentrated in Africa. They include PanAfrican Trucks & Equipment, a Komatsu distributorship that specializes in sales and service of heavy construction and mining equipment throughout eastern and western Africa and, Kenya Fluorspar Company, a mining operation in western Kenya.

Mr. Field-Marsham worked as a financial analyst in New York for Credit Suisse First Boston before moving to Kenya where he worked as a consultant and investment analyst. In 1995, he obtained a stock brokerage license on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and founded Kestrel Capital.

In addition to the enterprises he owns and directs, Mr. Field-Marsham is also a non-executive director of Kenya Oil Company, a listing on the Nairobi Stock Exchange that operates more than 400 petrol stations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia and Ethiopia.

Since 2004 Mr. Field-Marsham's financial support for the Kenya Scholar Athlete Project has enabled over 60 underprivileged Kenyan students to obtain full scholarships to leading universities in the United States including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and MIT. Mr. Field-Marsham also serves on the Canadian board of the African Medical Research Foundation AMREF (Flying Doctors) and the Healthy Kids International Board at the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital. He also served on the Smartrisk board.