Bay Street Buzz

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

“Robert Weston has joined OMERS Strategic Investments as Senior Vice-President, Strategic Co-Investments. Weston was previously a Managing Director at State Street Global Advisors.

Dave Bustos is moving from Inwest Investments to Head the Vancouver office of RBC Capital Markets Investment Bank. Bustos has also previously worked at Scotia Capital and BMO Capital Markets.

Shilpa Arora has joined Deloitte and Touche in the Financial Advisory Services team. Shilpa was previously with Ernst and Young.

Mathieu Cardinal has joined Desjardins Securities Investment Banking team in Montreal as a Vice-President. Mathieu was previously with BMO Capital Markets.

Kinross Gold hired Guido Lenarduzzi as Vice President, New Investments. Guido was previously a Director at Goldman Sachs in Toronto.

Lee Madruga has left Ernst & Young Vancouver’s P3 Group and has joined Acciona Infrastructures Canada as Business Development Manager for the Pacific Region.

The Equicom Group appointed Alice Dunning Senior Account Executive in the Diversified Industries Group in Toronto. Prior to joining Equicom, Alice was an Equity Analyst with CIBC World Markets, Merrill Lynch and TD Securities.

Parimal Nathwani joined MaRS Innovation in the Business Development & Commercialization team. Parimal was formerly a Research Associate at Versant Partners.

Jenny Li has left her role as a Risk Underwriter with GE Real Estate’s Montreal office to join the Real Estate Corporate Banking team at BMO Capital Markets as an Associate.

Patricia Baker has joined Scotia Capital from Merrill Lynch as a Director, Equity Analyst covering the Retail sector focusing on the U.S. and Mexico.

Michael Li has joined BMO Capital Markets as Vice-President, Mergers & Acquisitions. Previously Michael was at Citigroup Global Markets as Vice President, Metals and Mining Investment Banking.

Steve Kelly joined the Equity Sales desk at National Bank Financial. Kelly was formerly with Merrill Lynch.

Corporate Bond Specialist Jay Menning left Connor, Clark & Lunn and started at Phillips, Hager & North as a Credit Portfolio Manager.

Daniel Simunac has assumed the role as Principal Officer, Canada Branch for Allied Irish Banks with the departure announced last week of Chris Gifford who start up Avira Capital.

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

MRM