Justin Plouffe, CFA

Managing Director & Deputy Chief Investment Officer - Global Credit 

Carlyle 

Mr. Plouffe focuses on investing across Carlyle's credit strategies and driving growth initiatives for the Global Credit platform. He is a Portfolio Manager for several cross-platform credit strategies, including Carlyle Tactical Private Credit Fund, and serves on various Global Credit investment committees. In addition to his investing duties, he is ultimately responsible for business development initiatives for Global Credit. He also serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer of TCG Capital Markets L.L.C., a SEC-registered broker/dealer affiliate of Carlyle. Since joining Carlyle in 2007, Mr. Plouffe has overseen CLO new issuance, led acquisitions of corporate credit management platforms, served as a portfolio manager for structured credit investments, developed proprietary portfolio management analytics, and negotiated a wide variety of financing facilities. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Plouffe was an Attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP. He has also served as a Clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a Legislative Assistant to a U.S. Congressman.

Mr. Plouffe received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his JD from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of The Columbia Law Review. Mr. Plouffe is based in New York.

Daniel Child, CFA, CA, CPA

Founder, Portfolio Manager

YTM Capital 

After graduating from Ivey Business School, Daniel embarked on a public accounting career. He earned his Chartered Accountancy designation and then changed gears, securing a job as a bond trader at CIBC in 1994. Three years later he moved to Scotiabank Global Banking & Markets where he rose to Head Corporate Bond Trader. He actively traded and made markets for 11 years with responsibility for Scotia's Canadian corporate bond portfolio and MBS/ABS book. Daniel priced hundreds of new issues and traded billions of dollars of the Bank's capital in bonds, while employing risk management that allowed him to successfully report to the Bank's Liability Committee. In 2010 Daniel combined his risk and credit expertise with his entrepreneurial spirit and founded YTM Capital. His vision is to provide investors with income solutions that protect on the downside and optimize the potential for strong risk-adjusted returns.

Rudy Narvas

Senior Manager, Economic Intelligence

Questrade

Rudy has over 20-years of experience in financial markets and is currently Senior Manager, Competitive and Economic Intelligence, M&A Execution at Questrade Financial Group. Prior to Questrade he was Director of Macro Research at a Canadian pension fund and spent a decade as an economist at various institutions in New York and Toronto.

Hilary Wiek, CAIA, CFA

Senior Strategist

PitchBook

Hilary Wiek is a lead analyst at PitchBook, where she leads PitchBook's coverage of fund strategies and performance, publishing primary research on the alternatives space and contributing to core report development. Wiek also heads PitchBook's coverage of the ESG/impact investing space. She has over 20 years of experience in asset owner, manager and advisory roles. Prior to joining PitchBook, Wiek was the director of investments at the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundations, where she handled portfolio management, impact/ESG, investment diligence, and monitoring and investment operations. Before that, she worked in senior positions at Segal Rogerscasey, the South Carolina Retirement Systems Investment Commission, Buckingham Financial Group, Dayton Power & Light and KeyCorp. Wiek received a master's degree in finance and economics from Case Western Reserve University and a bachelor's degree in business leadership and finance from the University of Puget Sound. She is based in PitchBook's Seattle office.

Senia Rapisarda

Managing Director

HarbourVest

Senia Rapisarda joined HarbourVest in 2014 to focus on partnership and direct co-investments in Canada and to expand HarbourVest's local presence in the market. Senia joined the Firm from BDC Venture Capital, where she was responsible for the establishment of a team focused on direct and indirect investments across Canada. Her previous experience includes positions at Nur Energie in London, London Business School, Nomura International, and Salomon Brothers, among other roles. Senia received a JD (summa cum laude) from LUISS University in Rome in 1987 and a Masters in Law and Economics (Fulbright Scholar) from Columbia University in 1989. An Italian and Canadian citizen, Senia speaks fluent Italian, French, and Spanish.



Bill Tilford

Head of Asset Management Operations

Nicola Wealth

Bill is a respected, innovative veteran portfolio manager with deep technical and fundamental skills for building successful investment strategies using big data, AI, statistical and financial disciplines. With over three decades of investment experience, Bill has a proven track record in building and leading investment teams at prominent financial institutions such as RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM), Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), and Connor, Clark & Lunn (CC&L). His expertise extends to research roles at two major Canadian brokerage firms.

Bill's extensive experience encompasses managing diverse investment vehicles, ranging from pension plans (both as an external and internal manager) to retail mutual funds and Exchange Traded Funds. Leveraging his profound understanding of quant investments, he has researched and constructed various asset mix strategies, including those tailored for risk budgeting, completion portfolios, and liability-driven investing. Bill has a Master's in Mathematics (Statistics and Finance) and a Bachelor of Mathematics (Hons) from the University of Waterloo.