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Marc is responsible for creating the overall strategic vision and setting the direction for Exclamation.

Marc brings his entrepreneurial passion and spirit to his ventures; born from a lifetime of creating and working with start-up companies.  Early in his career, following a consulting role with McKinsey & Company, Marc created his first company - Cyberplex Inc., a TSX listed technology consulting company. After working with Cyberplex, Marc continued his passion of business creation by founding Exclamation in 1997 where he served as Chairman and CEO from inception to February 2002 and remained as Chairman of the Board until May 2007.

While CEO of Exclamation, Marc set the strategic direction of Exclamation, assisting with its public listing (via one of Ontario's 1^st CPCs) and was instrumental in the creation of several of its business ventures, including Points International - the world's leading reward-program management portal.

In 2002, Marc created his first Capital Pool Company, Chrysalis Capital I Corporation, and has been dedicated the CPC Program ever since.

In addition to Exclamation, Marc is currently Chairman and Director of Chrysalis VIII; CEO and Director of Panda Capital Inc., as well as a Director of Cyberplex Inc.  He is also active in the arts via Exclamation Productions Inc. and charitable endeavours via The Exclamation Foundation.

Marc holds an Honours degree in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, where he received the gold medal for top student in his class.

Daniel joined Exclamation in the fall of 2009 and brings significant expertise in financial management, corporate M&A and capital management.

Daniel’s diverse background includes building early stage start-ups companies to working with some of Canada’s largest corporations.

Daniel has held senior financial roles in many industry sectors such as telecommunications, wireless technology, media, publishing, food manufacturing and oil & gas. Daniel’s M&A experience provides the necessary due diligence experience and strategic vision in evaluating investment opportunities. Daniel also leads Exclamation’s investor relations program.

Daniel’s entrepreneurial background along with his corporate experience with Canada’s industry leaders; Bell Canada Enterprises, Suncor and Weston Foods will be a valued asset for Exclamation’s investment team and assessing new business creations. Daniel serves on the Board of the Chrysalis Capital Groups eighth IPO. Daniel is a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and is also a MBA graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Mr. Kranias has over 40 years of information technology, consulting and management experience.  Since 1998, he has provided management consulting services to North American firms that are entering the European marketplace.  He provides his services through his company, International Consulting, which was based in London, England until 2007 and is now based in France. During his residency in London, Jim was a member of the UK Institute of Directors.

Prior to his International Consulting business, Mr. Kranias was a senior partner with DMR Group for over 20 years.  He established and successfully grew DMR's Toronto office into the premier IT consulting service in the city.  He went on to manage operations in Boston, Ottawa and the Netherlands, and to lead the sales effort in the UK.

Mr. Kranias started his career with IBM, where he progressed through positions in systems engineering, sales, executive education, Government & Services Industry manager and senior sales management. He has his B.Sc. of Engineering Physics from the University of Alberta and his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Imperial College of the University of London, England.  Mr. Kranias is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and was a Certified Management Consultant when working in Canada.  He is currently a member of the Board of Exclamation S.A. and on the Advisory Board of a Toronto-based consulting company, Negenit Corporation.

Mr. Munro is CEO, CFO and co-founder of  The Chrysalis Capital Group ("TCCG"), a private company focused on all aspects of the Capital Pool Company program. Mr. Munro currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Panda Capital Inc.

Prior to joining TCCG, Mr. Munro served as Director, Data Product Management with Rogers AT&T Wireless Inc. (“Rogers”), from March 2003 to February 2006.  In such capacity, Mr. Munro managed a team and was strategically responsible for delivering increasing data revenues in a growing area of the wireless market.

Prior to joining Rogers, Mr. Munro was the founding Director of Venture Development with Exclamation International from December 1999 to June 2002.  In this role, Mr. Munro was charged with analyzing all potential investments' value propositions, their products’ attractiveness in the marketplace and their likelihood of success.  Mr. Munro also acted as interim management to several of Exclamation's partner companies, and was one of the original founders of Points, the reward management portal.

Mr. Munro holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Huron College, the founding college of the University of Western Ontario (1995), as well as several certificates in Project Management from Ryerson University.

Michael has 17 years of private equity investing, business valuation and accounting experience, working primarily with mid-market companies.

Michael is currently VP, Finance at Masstech Group Inc.  Prior to joining Masstech, Michael was the managing Director at Spara Merchant Capital Corp. and was a General Partner at VenGrowth Private Equity Partners Inc.  He was responsible for managing subordinated debt and equity investments. He has worked at several prominent private equity firms and two international accounting firms. Mr. Wolfe is a Chartered Accountant (CA), a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) and has a Master of Business Administration degree.