Claude has 19 years of operational, venture capital and transactional experience. Claude has served on the boards of several high technologies companies and has worked with companies in seed, start-up and expansion stages, in turnaround situations and completed an extensive number of exits through strategic sales, IPO, MBO and secondary transactions.

Prior to joining Kirchner Private Capital Group, Claude was a Managing Partner at Multiple Capital where he managed a portfolio of venture capital investments for Coller Capital. Claude was part of the management team who realized the largest Canadian secondary acquisition of a Venture Capital fund, the Innovatech Montreal privatization transaction for a total consideration of $200M. The Innovatech portfolio was an early stage venture fund composed of 108 Life Science, IT&C and Advanced Tech portfolio companies and had made investments as a Limited Partner in 12 funds. Previously, Claude was Vice-President of the IT and Communications Portfolio at Innovatech where he had the responsibility to manage a team of investment professionals and a portfolio of 42 early stage companies. Before joining Innvatech, Claude founded a firm providing services to small and medium businesses helping them source funding. Claude started his career in the clean tech industry at Degramont where he worked as an application engineer.

Claude holds an MBA from HEC Montreal and a Chemical Engineering Degree from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.