David Picton

President and CEO
Picton Mahoney Asset Management

David is a founding partner and President of Picton Mahoney Asset Management and the 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 lead manager of its Canadian momentum portfolio 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 has an Honours B.Com. from the University of British Columbia.