About Us

The Chrysalis Capital Group delivers superior shareholder returns through the creation of a series of unique Capital Pool Companies. Our professional, full-time approach, supported by years of experience and innovation, makes Chrysalis a leader at investing in, and working with, companies pursuing a public listing.

At the heart of Chrysalis is a desire to work with and invest in high quality people and businesses. We are the only group with a full-time focus on the Capital Pool Company ("CPC") program - a program that is under-serviced and often misunderstood.

We are entrepreneurs, not financiers / "middlemen" who derive income from fees - we only realize value if the companies we take public are successful (via capital gains). This unique structure means we act as both a new investor looking to invest in a high quality business at a reasonable value and an existing insider, who is concerned with the long-term success of the business.

The actual process of going public is often an "after thought" - left to inexperienced, unmotivated individuals who are not rewarded to be creative or add value, invariably destroying value. 

The experience and expertise Chrysalis has gained in over a dozen CPC transactions, coupled with our significant personal investment in each of our CPCs, makes us the choice for companies looking to go public.  

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Executive Team

The Executive Team brings passion and experience to the CPC program



Marc Lavine

As Chairman and co-founder, Marc brings an entrepreneurial passion and spirit to Chrysalis; born from a lifetime of creating and working with start-up companies.   Early in his career, following a 2 year consulting role with McKinsey & Company, Marc created his first company - Cyberplex Inc., a TSX listed technology consulting company. 

After working with Cyberplex for several years and assisting in growing the market capitalization to a high of over $700M in early 2000, Marc made the decision to leave and create his second company - Exclamation Inc., an Internet Business Generator, where he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from its inception until February 2002 and remained on as Chairman of the Board until May, 2007.  While there, Marc set the strategic direction of Exclamation, assisted with its public listing (via one of Ontario's 1st 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.

Marc is currently Chairman and Director of Chrysalis VIII and Exclamation Investments Corporation, 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.



Robert Munro

As CEO and co-founder, Robert leads Chrysalis’ worldwide operations, focused on accelerating shareholder value, enhancing the quality and quantity of deal flow and delivering strategic guidance to several of Chrysalis' Resulting Companies. 

Robert actively manages the Chrysalis team and is involved in the day-to-day operations of the business.  A large portion of Robert's time is spent marketing and branding Chrysalis as the leader in taking superior private companies public via one of its Capital Pool Companies.

Prior to joining Chrysalis, Robert was Director, Data Essentials and Applications at Rogers Wireless, Canada’s largest wireless network operator.  In this role, Robert managed a large team responsible for delivering over $400 million annually from a variety of wireless “data” services including email, text messaging, internet browsing, music, games, among others, in one of the most exciting and fastest growing areas of the wireless marketplace.  During his tenure, revenues from these services grew over 100% year over year, making it one of the fastest growing portfolios within Rogers.

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

Robert is currently CEO, CFO and a Director of Chrysalis VIII and Director of Exclamation Investments Corporation.



Geoffrey Rotstein

Geoff is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Cyberplex Inc., a technology consulting company listed on the TSX, a position he has held since January 2006.  Prior to his position as CEO, Geoff spent 8 years as the Chief Financial Officer of Cyberplex and was responsible for developing and implementing financial controls, budgets and management policies as well as overseeing all of the financial and regulatory reporting requirements.


Before joining Cyberplex, Geoff spent five years at Coopers and Lybrand, working in General Practice and Financial and Advisory Services. While at Coopers and Lybrand, he was involved with the auditing, accounting, reporting and various corporate finance requirements for his clients.

Geoff serves as a Director for a number of public companies and  brings over 16 years of strategic and financial expertise to Chrysalis and has been a Director on each of Chrysalis' CPCs.

Geoff received his C.A. designation in 1996 and received his MBA degree from York University in Toronto in 1992.