AT THE TENDER age of 14, Eric Martineau-Fortin saw the movie Wall Street and fell in love with the frenetic, protean world of investing. “It may sound cliched,” he muses, “but I love investing. It’s an endless world of discovery. Getting to meet new people who are smarter, more intrepid than I am, while diving deep into new, emerging sectors is fascinating.”
A prolific investment banker with BOA Merrill Lynch and ABN AMRO back in the day, Martineau-Fortin was also an avid entrepreneur, co-founding Messier & Associés, a transatlantic mergers and acquisitions advisory firm with an expertise in media and technology. He went on to found White Star Capital in 2007, a “humble family