Bay Street Buzz

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

“Please join us in welcoming Mark Stipe, the newest member of the Vlaad and Company team. Mark joins us from the financial services team at a multinational executive search firm.

Former Federal Cabinet Minister David Emerson is now an Advisor at private equity firm CAI Capital Management.

Neil Petroff will succeed Bob Bertram as Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of Investments at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in January.

Another departure in January is the Head of Lazard Canada, Evan Siddall, who will be taking on the CFO role at Irving Oil.

Wolverton Capital has picked up three more members of the now defunct Evergreen Capital team – Paul Reid (Investment Banking) and Ovais Habib (Mining Research) in Toronto, and Trevor Conway (Investment Banking) in Calgary.

Brian Gibson is moving to Alberta Investment Management Corporation (“AIMCo”) in Edmonton as their Senior Vice President of Public Equities. Gibson was previously with Panoply Capital Management and prior to that, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (“OTPP”).

Abraheem Abdulla is joining Dubai Islamic Bank’s Direct Investments Department in their private equity group. Abdulla was previously an Associate in the M&A team at BMO Capital Markets.

Ian Mitchell has joined the Versant trading desk. Mitchell was previously a retail trader at MGI Securities.

Former Edgestone Capital Partners Associate in the Later Stage Equity Fund, Katherine Rivington, has joined BMO Financial Group in the Office of Strategic Management.

Blair Carey has left his Associate position at Abacus Private Equity to assume the post of Vice President, Investments at Third Eye Capital.

Riley Keast has left his role in Investment Banking at MPartners to open up the Canadian operations of New York based Casimir Capital.

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

MRM