2023 Speakers

Marwa Abdou
Senior Research Director
Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Shoaib Baig
Principal, Investment and Risk Consulting
Telus Health

Brennan Basnicki
Partner
Auspice

Paul Bowes
Head of Canada
FTSE Russell / LSEG

Dominic Chalifoux
Chief Asset Management and Valuation Officer
Axium Infrastructure

Alex Chase
Manager, Real Assets
NAV CANADA PENSION PLAN

Lucy Chher
Director - Reporting, Performance & Risk
Mavrik

Takavada Chitsa
Controller
CBC Pension Fund

Karl Dasher
President
Polen Capital

Trevor David
Director
Morningstar Sustainalytics

Carey Davidson
Head of Capital MArkets
Monroe Capital

Dan Elsberry
Senior Managing Director
K2 Advisors

Maxwell Gold
Head of Gold Strategy
State Street Global Advisors

John Harvey
Manager, Investments
Nunavut Trust

Christian Hensley
Senior Managing Director, Equities and Credit
Panelist

Judy Hui
Portfolio Manager, Public Market Alternatives
IMCO

John Hurley
CIO - Alternative Investments
WorkSafeNB

Dawn Jia
President & Chief Executive Officer
UBC Investment Management

Evin Joseph
Analyst, Investments
Oxford Properties Group

Angella MacEwen
Senior Economist
CUPE

Keith MacIsaac
Senior Specialist – Capital Markets Risk
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Salome Makharadze
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Megan Maltby
Manager, Accelerator Programs & Investor Relations
Invest Ottawa

Gordon Nicholson
Portfolio Manager
K2 Advisors

Chika Onyeukwu
Program Coordinator
Pan African School for Policy Innovation

Ernie Ortiz
CEO
Lithium Royalty Corp

Amit Prakash
Chief Fiduciary Management Officer
AIMCo

Ross Prusakowski
Director - Country & Sector Intelligence
Export Development Canada

Paul Schutzman
Institutional Solutions
Morningstar

Matthew Sparks
Managing Director
Northleaf Capital Partners

Marc Strauss
Managing Director
Crestline Investors

David Tien
Managing Director
CPP Investments

Eric Topolnisky
Regional Director
RioCan REIT

Andrew Urquhart
Executive Director
Carleton University Retirement Plan

Tom Valks
Chief Investment Officer, Pension Fund
University of Ottawa

Adam Vigna
CIO
Sagard Holdings

Anikka Villegas
Fund Strategies and Sustainable Investing Analyst
PitchBook Data

ALi Zaidi
Head of Real Assets Research
FTSE Russell LSEG

Omar Zidan
Part-Time Finance Prof
U of Ottawa