Bay Street Buzz

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

CIBC World Markets has created an Infrastructure lending team which will be led by Managing Director Peter Mastromarini who was previously Executive Director within their Loan Syndications group. Geraint Breeze will join the team as an Executive Director. Geraint previously led the Canadian Infrastructure finance team at Lloyds Bank. Sami Zahur has joined the team as an Associate, moving from Fixed Income, Currencies & Distribution.

Geoff Scott has joined RBC Capital Markets as Director, National Client Group in the Toronto office. Geoff was most recently with National Bank of Canada in Montréal.

Jeffrey Brown has joined Banc of America Merrill Lynch as Vice-President, Structured Products. Jeffrey was previously Vice-President at CI Investments.

TMX Group has hired Gary Knight as Vice-President, Trading, TSX Markets. Gary was most recently with Cormark Securities as Senior Institutional Equity Trader.

Tom Jarmai has founded his own firm, Globalcan Financial Advisors, after leaving Blackmont Capital Markets where he was Head of Investment Banking.

Bryan Lopushinsky has joined First Energy Capital in Calgary as Vice-President, Institutional Sales from Credit Suisse.

Andrew Edward Osbourne left Macquarie to join First Energy Capital in Calgary as a Corporate Finance Analyst.

TransCanada has hired Rick Petersen as a Senior Analyst, Energy Investment Analysis and Acquisitions in Calgary. Rick was previously at TD Newcrest as an Energy Research Associate.

James Fox has been promoted to President of Sprott Asset Management from Senior Vice-President, Sales & Marketing.

David Beck has joined the Institutional Trading team at GMP Securities, leaving RBC Capital Markets where he was a Proprietary Trader.

Octagon Capital has hired two Research Analysts:
• Rob Chang has joined as a Mining Analyst. Rob was most recently a Director, Research & Trading & Associate Portfolio Manager at Middlefield Capital
• Arthur Kwan has joined as an Energy Analyst in Calgary. Arthur was previously at Thomas Weisel Capital Partners as Vice-President, Investment Banking

BMO Capital Markets’ Special Situations Analyst, Peter Sklar, will now cover the Retail sector.

PSP Investments has hired Mark Giuliani as Director, Private Equity in Montréal. Mark was most recently at BDC Venture Capital as Director, Analysis and Portfolio Valuation.

Northern Securities has hired Jeff Shanta to their institutional equity sales group. Jeff was previously Assistant Vice-President of Sales at Computershare Investor Services. Institutional Equity Trader James Che will also be joining the firm from Wellington West Capital Markets.

Oil & Gas Research Analyst, Geoff Ready, has joined Haywood Securities in Calgary from Pacific International Securities.

Peter Yoon has joined Alberta Teachers’ as a Senior Equity Analyst. Peter was most recently at Desjardins Securities as an Energy Services Analyst, Institutional Equity Research.

Edgestone has hired Benji Sucher as an Analyst. Benji was previously a Senior Associate at PWC.

Alexander MacDonald has joined Wellington West Capital Markets as a Research Associate in Energy Services. Alex is a recent MBA graduate from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Correction: Fiera Capital has hired Nick Cileli as a Senior Analyst, Foreign Equities. Nick was previously at Bimcor as a Senior Analyst, Canadian Equities.

MRM