Bay Street Buzz

This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, of Vlaad & Co.:

“Highlights of the recent changes at National Bank Financial include:

In addition to his current role as Co-president, Co-CEO and Head of Wealth Management, Luc Paiement is now also responsible for Innocap. Research will now be part of the Institutional Equities group under Gerry Throop. Equity Capital Markets will now be part of Corporate and Investment Banking under Cam diPrata. Laurent Ferreira will Head a newly created Derivatives team. Éric Girard is now Head of Proprietary Trading. Michel Falk has joined as Chief Investment Officer and member of the board of directors of Natcan Investment Management.

Scott Murray has joined boutique investment bank Capital West Partners in Vancouver. Murray left his Managing Director role with Macquarie Capital Markets’ Mining Team earlier this summer.

Martin Lavigueur has left GMP Securities’ Special Situations Research group to join Macquarie Capital Markets as a Research Associate in the Mining group.

Ashutosh Sharma joins BMO Capital Markets new India initiative as Managing Director, India Head, Investment & Corporate Banking. Sharma is based in Mumbai and worked previously for Citigroup.

Michael Curlook has moved from Farallon Resources/Hunter Dickinson over to independent junior gold, Great Basin Gold where he will head up the Investor Relations and Corporate Development activities in North America.

Sal Diaz has left his role as an Associate Analyst at National Bank Financial to join LOM as a Special Situations Analyst.

Massimo Polveraccio and the Project Finance team from Bilfinger Berger in Toronto left to join German Infrastructure player Hochtief.

Former Royal Bank Investment Management Tech Analyst, Chris Blake, joined OMERS to cover industrials.

Also joining OMERS as an Analyst is Ramy Zacher from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to cover Tech and Telecom.

Imran Sajun was an Investment Banking Associate at Haywood Securities. He has moved to Sanofi Pasteur – a division of Sanofi Aventis.

After an assignment with Scotiabank’s Executive Project Office, Peter Slan, Managing Director, will be re-joining the Equity Capital Markets group.

UBS Securities Canada has boosted the junior ranks of their Institutional Equities team hiring Nii-Apa Lamptey and Chloe Nicol, two MBA graduates from the Rotman School of Management, as Associates.

Bill Vlaad, bill@vlaadco.com
647-426-3890”

MRM