Jamie Wise

Jamie Wise is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Periscope Capital, a multi-strategy alternative investment manager focused on niche oriented Canadian and US arbitrage opportunities. Established in 2009 and located in Toronto, Periscope has a long-standing history of managing diverse arbitrage-focused strategies. Mr. Wise was formerly a managing director at Moore Capital Advisors Canada, a multi-strategy Canadian-focused hedge fund. Prior to Moore Capital, Mr. Wise was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at the Bank of Montreal where he led an internal proprietary trading group.  At BMO, Mr. Wise was appointed the youngest Managing Director in the firm’s history. Mr. Wise has an undergraduate business degree (hons.); graduating first in his class from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.