Charles Field-Marsham

Early life and education Field-Marsham is the second son of Rupert Charles Edward Field-Marsham and his first wife, Marilyn Maughan. As a male-line descendant of Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney (1685–1724), he is related to the Earls of Romney. and then McGill University in Montreal, where he obtained a bachelor's degree with distinction in economics and politics.

Field-Marsham is married to a Kenyan wife, Rita Field-Marsham, a lawyer and CEO of non-profit organization Key Libraries, a Canadian charity that invests in turnkey school libraries.

Career At the age of 19 and while an undergraduate at McGill University, Field-Marsham started his first successful business, Advantage Clothing. After graduating from McGill, he joined Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City as a financial analyst.

From 1993 to 2003, Field-Marsham lived in Kenya with his wife, during which time he established and acquired several companies. His first move was to open a stock brokerage, Kestrel Capital, in 1995. Kestrel Capital has become Kenya's leading stock brokerage firm. He then set up the Panafrican Group in 1996, a Komatsu distributor for mining and construction equipment across Africa. In 1997, he bought the Kenya Fluorspar Company, a loss-making state-owned company, and entered into a 20-year lease with the government. The mine was to become one of the country's leading foreign currency earners. It was described as one of the largest and lowest-cost producers of fluorspar in the world. The company provides investment consultancy services to businesses outside of Canada. As of 2020, Field-Marsham is an investor of 7-Nation, a board sports company that owns, among other companies, Slingshot Sports.

Philanthropy The Charles and Rita Field-Marsham Foundation – established in 2009. Kenya Scholar Access Project (KENSAP) – became chairman and major sponsor in 2005; an initiative that has helped secure scholarships for over 200 high-achieving disadvantaged Kenyan students in elite U.S. universities. KENSAP produced it first Harvard graduate, Kipyegon Amos Kitur, in 2009.