Bay Street Buzz

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

“Ezra Chang has recently joined Wellington West Capital Markets as an Associate, Investment Banking. Ezra was previously with GMP Securities.

Jeffrey Fiell, formerly of Evergreen Capital Partners, has joined Leede Financial Markets as a Vice President, Investment Banking in their Calgary office.

Portfolio Manager from CI Financial, Matthew Shandro, has launched a Bond Fund this week, Fulcra Asset Management, based out of Vancouver.

A couple of changes in responsibility at BMO Capital Markets:

· Kelsey Gunderson will be taking on the role of Head of Fixed Income and Money Market Sales

· Rob White will be assuming responsibility for all trading activity of the Debt Products Group

Tyson Birchall has left Tristone Capital, where he was Vice President, Investment Banking in the Calgary Office, to join Longbow Capital in Calgary.

Aaron Toporowski has joined Canada Post Corporation Pension Plan as Manager, Private Equity, from Export Development Canada where he was a Senior Associate.

Casper Wong, previously an Analyst in the M&A group with BMO Capital Markets has moved to industry joining easyhome, as Director of Business Development.

MPartners has added a few people to their team. Jennifer Burke, most recently at Thomas Weisel Partners has joined their trading desk and Jason Bedasse, most recently with Evergreen Capital Partners has joined their sales desk. Warren Brown has joined the Investment Banking team based out of Vancouver, most recently Warren was with Northern Securities.

Max Zureski, has rejoined Deloitte & Touche, as Senior Manager in the Financial Advisory practice, most recently he was a Junior Oil & Gas Research Analyst with Haywood Securities.

Blackmont Capital’s Montreal based Institutional Salesman Joe Marcone is joining CIBC World Markets on their Institutional Sales Desk.

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

MRM