Jamie Wise

Jamie Wise is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Periscope Capital, a Toronto-based hedge fund manager. Established in 2009, Periscope Capital is focused on arbitrage and quantitative, rules-based, portfolio strategies. Mr. Wise has led the firm’s efforts in the development of applied machine learning and artificial intelligence frameworks focusing on natural language processing techniques for use within the firm’s investment 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 appeared on CNBC, BNN and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and across leading industry publications. 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.