Jonathan Belair

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Mr. Jonathan Belair serves as Managing Partner, Agri-food Private Equity at Power Sustainable. He is a Founder and serves as Managing Partner at LIOS Partners. He serves as a Board Member at TruLeaf. He served as Director at OMERS Private Equity. He has 20 years of investing and operating experience, with a deep focus on food, agriculture, and sustainability. Before founding LIOS Partners, Mr. Belair most recently spent 5 years as a senior executive at McCain Foods, a global food processing and agriculture company with C$10 billion in revenues. Throughout this period, Mr. Belair led global M&A, Strategy, and Venture Investing, as well as the Company's Global Sustainability/ESG function. Mr. Belair has led investments across the food value chain, including in agriculture production, regenerative agriculture, vertical farming, plant-based protein, agriculture data analytics, food processing, and transportation. Before McCain Foods, Mr. Belair was a senior member of the direct private equity team at OMERS Private Equity (OMERS) where he was responsible for sourcing, executing, and managing direct private equity investments in North America. In addition, Mr. Belair participated on the board of directors of several portfolio companies and provided strategic and operational leadership to several investments. Before OMERS, Mr. Belair was part of the investment banking group at Scotiabank, where he was involved in mandates across industry groups, focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory, and equity and debt financings.