Our Investment Team

OMERS Capital Markets
James Donegan, President and CEO, OMERS Capital Markets

James Donegan was appointed President and CEO of OMERS Capital Markets in September 2007 and is responsible for overseeing OMERS portfolio of public market investments.
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Elliott Airhart, Principal, Capital Market Research

Elliott Airhart is responsible for providing general insights into the long-term drivers of asset class returns and specific insights into particular capital market questions raised by any portfolio or group.
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Ted Carmichael, Managing Director, Multi-Strategy Portfolio

Ted Carmichael is responsible for streamlining the asset mix decision-making process, researching new investment instruments and constructing an investment portfolio that has an absolute return bias. 
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Kirby Connor, Managing Director, Fixed Income & Currency

Kirby Connor is responsible for the management of OMERS fixed income portfolio and the use of derivative based strategies across OMERS fixed income and currency mandates. 
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Walter Lehman, Managing Director, OCM Risk Management

Walter Lehman is responsible for the integration of investment risk within OCM along with the risk oversight of internally and externally managed portfolios.
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Jack Mahler, Managing Director, Head of Equities

Jack Mahler is responsible for the Canadian Equity, Global Equity and Equity Research teams and has full accountability for the performance of both the Canadian and Global Equity portfolios.
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Brent Robertson, Principal, Quantitative Investment

Brent Robertson is jointly responsible for all internally managed quantitative equity mandates at OCM and manages the equity trading desk, which includes derivatives trading, for all internally managed equity strategies.
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Serguei Zernov, Principal, Quantitative Investment

Serguei Zernov leads quantitative investment research efforts at OCM and is responsible for the development and management of quantitative investment strategies.
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