Our Team.

Prior to founding Alphi, Thecla was a member of the investment team at a leading Canadian mid-market private equity firm from 2004 to 2022 focused on investments in the consumer, healthcare and telecom industries. In the 12 years that Thecla was a Partner,she spent the last four as an Operating Partner and as CEO of one of the private equity firm’s portfolio companies leading its successful turnaround – both cultural and financial.

Prior to joining her former firm, Thecla worked on the start-up of Porter Airlines, was a consultant at Bain & Company and spent three years in the Chairman’s Office of George Weston Limited.

Thecla received her MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario where she graduated as an Ivey Scholar and her BA (Honours) from the University ofWestern Ontario.

Thecla serves on the board of Restaurant Brands International and Motion LP.

Prior to founding Alphi, Andrew worked at a leading Canadian mid-market private equity firm from 2011 to 2022 focusing primarily on business services investments. He has supervised and sold numerous companies over the last decade. Prior to moving back to Canada, he was a member of the private equity team at the Audax Group in Boston. Previously, Andrew started his career as an analyst in the M&A group at Morgan Stanley.  

Andrew received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

He currently sits on the Board of Cozzini Bros. Inc. and Alpine Ontario.

Prior to joining Alphi, Elaine worked at Northleaf Capital Partners. She joined in 2004 when the group was still part of TD Capital. Northleaf is a global private markets investment firm focused on mid-market companies and assets in private equity, infrastructure and private debt. At Northleaf, Elaine was involved in all aspects of Northleaf’s investment, business development and investor relations activities.  Prior to joining Northleaf, Elaine worked at AOL Time Warner in corporate development and partner marketing where she focused on acquisitions and subscriber partnerships. Previously, Elaine was a management consultant at Bain & Company where she worked on a variety of strategy assignments including private equity, telecommunications, Internet-related and financial services cases.

Elaine received her MBA and her HBA with distinction from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University.