Heather Cooke
CIO, The Audra Group Family Office
Prior to joining The Audra Group in 2019, Heather was Fiera Capital’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer & Senior Vice President of Private Alternatives, Chaired their Global ESG Committee and expanded their Multi-Asset Class Solutions business as Senior Vice President, Investment Solutions. Over her 25+ investment management career, she has worked in senior leadership roles at leading global investment management and consulting firms such as Unigestion Asset Management, Mercer Global Investments, Rogerscasey and Northern Trust Global Investments primarily in OCIO Solutions. Heather earned her Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Smith School of Business at Queen's University and holds the CFA Charterholder designation. She also volunteers as a Senior Advisor to the CFA Society Toronto's Institutional Asset Management Committee and is a member of The Ticker Club.
Ela Karahasanoglu
Head of Total Fund Management, BCI
Ela Karahasanoglu is a Director, Total Fund Management (TFM) with BCI where she leads the TFM team. With $171.3bn of managed assets, BCI is a leading provider of investment management services for British Columbia’s public sector. Prior to joining BCI in 2019, Ela was a Managing Director, Multi-Asset Strategies at Investment Management Corporation of Ontario and WSIB, where Ela oversaw the $8.5bn Multi-Asset Strategies portfolio and acted as the Deputy CIO leading the investment team that managed WSIB’s $35bn portfolio. Before WSIB, Ela was the Vice President of Currency and Asset Allocation team at CIBC Asset Management. Prior to that, she was a Principal and Senior Manager Research Consultant in the Alternatives team within Mercer, covering a broad set of absolute return and hedge fund strategies. Ela was previously the Head of Research and Trading for six years at a New York-based quantitative macro hedge fund and also worked in the areas of credit derivatives and asset management at Merrill Lynch, New York. Ela started out her career as a currency and bond trader in Turkey. Ela has over 20 years experience in the investment industry with over 13 years dedicated to research, trading, portfolio management and construction in the alternatives and absolute return space. Ela holds a Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University. She has been a CFA Charterholder since 2002 and a CAIA Charterholder since 2010. Ela also serves on CAIA’s Gender Diversity Advisory Board.
Anastassia Kobeleva
Portfolio Manager, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Ms. Anastassia Kobeleva is a Portfolio Manager, External Portfolio Management, at CPP Investments, maintaining a portfolio of externally managed funds and separate accounts. With a focus on a long-term horizon, she invests in established and emerging managers globally. External Portfolio Management has relationships with approximately 60 top asset managers whose mandates cover equities, credit, interest rates, currencies and commodities. Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2012, Ms. Kobeleva spent 5 years in private equity investment banking with Loewen & Partners. She serves on the 100 Women in Finance Toronto Executive committee and the East Coast FundWomen committee, a female fund managers visibility initiative. Ms. Kobeleva is a CFA charterholder.
Janet Rabovsky
CIO, Fairwater Capital Corporation
Janet Rabovsky recently joined a family office as Chief Investment Officer. Prior to this, Janet spent 20 years in investment consulting, assisting pension funds, endowments and foundations with investment strategy, implementation and oversight activities, as well as providing education to committees and boards. Janet has been actively researching alternative managers since 2001, is a regular speaker at conferences and regularly publishes articles for Benefits Canada. In addition, Janet is a member of the Board of the Teachers’ Pension Plan (Newfoundland) and Chairs its Investment Committee, is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Jewish Foundation (Toronto) and advises the Board Investment Committee of OPTrust.
Alana Johnston Gould
Director, Prime Services Capital Introduction, Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets
Alana Johnston Gould leads capital introduction at Scotiabank Prime Services. She works with Scotiabank’s global hedge fund clients to support their asset growth and facilitates access to Canadian institutional and retail investors. Alana is a CPA, CA and graduated with accounting and economics degrees from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
