Member of the Board
Prior to Co-Founding MCP, Elling was Co-CEO and Board Member of Colourific Coatings and Co-Founder and Partner at Cassiar Partners. Colourific Coatings is an industrial coatings business based out of Mississauga, Ontario. Cassiar Partners is a boutique investment firm focused on acquiring and operating small businesses in Canada. At Cassiar Partners, Elling was also involved in multiple acquisitions and served on the Board of Community Electric Limited, a Saskatoon-based electrical contractor with locations across Canada.
Prior to that, Elling was an Investment Analyst covering North American industrial companies at Balyasny Asset Management, a $7bn hedge fund based out of New York, where he spent considerable time meeting and working with management teams as part of his investment process. He worked in Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan prior to that, where he spent a majority of his time working on M&A processes both on the buy-side and sell-side for clients.
Elling grew up in Abbotsford, BC, and received his BComm (Hons) in Finance and Real Estate from the Sauder School of Business at UBC.