David Picton

David is a founding partner of Picton Mahoney Asset Management, President, and Lead Portfolio Manager, responsible for our Canadian equity market neutral, long short, and long-only strategies. David has been a prominent presence in the
Canadian investment industry for the past several decades. Highlights of his career so far include launching Synergy Asset Management in 1997 and working as its lead Canadian momentum portfolio manager (some of those mandates he continues to
manage to this day), and spending eight years as Head of Quantitative Research at RBC Dominion Securities, where he was one of the top-ranked analysts in his sector. David holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of
British Columbia.