Craig Gilchrist

Before his current role, he was Head of ScotiaMcLeod®, Scotia Wealth Management’s high-net-worth investment advisory arm. In this role, he led a team of over 1,800 professionals across Canada, managing over C$150 billion in assets under administration. Before ScotiaMcLeod, Craig was Chief Investment Officer at Scotia Wealth Management®, where he managed all investment operations, including the Global Portfolio Advisory Group, Investment Solutions, and Centralized Investment Management. He also served as Co-Head of Scotiabank’s Global Equity Sales and Trading business, responsible for a large team of professionals spanning Canada, the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Mr. Gilchrist graduated with an Honours Business Administration (HBA) degree from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business. He spent the early part of his career as a member of the Investment Banking teams at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch Canada where he specialized in various corporate finance and M&A transactions. From there, he became Director, Hedge Fund Sales & Risk Arbitrage at Merrill Lynch Canada and Managing Director with BMO Capital Markets before moving to Scotiabank. Mr. Gilchrist joined Scotiabank in 2009 as Head of the Absolute Return and Arbitrage Group, which focused on structuring complex trading strategies that included long-short pair trades, risk arbitrage, and special situations.

Mr. Gilchrist is also a board member of ReGen Resource Recovery, Deputy Board Chair of the Ivey Business School Foundation, board member of the Ivey Advisory Board (IAB), and Vice Chair of the Canada Soccer Foundation. He is also a Chartered Investment Manager (CIM®) and Portfolio Manager.