Les Marton is the managing director and lead client consultant in bfinance’s Canadian operation. He has worked in financial services for over 30 years, with more than two decades of experience in asset management. He has experience on the buy-side, having managed the Scotia Alternative Asset Fund from 2001-2003, launched the Scotiabank Canadian Hedge Fund Index and was head of operational due diligence for Scotia Capital’s alternative assets business. He has worked extensively with institutional allocators in a range of roles throughout his long and varied career. Prior to joining bfinance in 2017, he held senior roles at Scotiabank including managing director, head of cap intro and hedge fund consulting and head of the global alternative asset group. He began his career at Royal Bank of Canada and RBC Capital Markets. Marton has been a frequent speaker at pension investment conferences on a wide range of topics. He has eclectic tastes in literature and music, is an avid sports enthusiast as well as a keen (though admittedly unaccomplished) golfer. In the dim mists of time, he received an MBA from York University and a bachelor of arts in philosophy and english from the University of Toronto, Trinity College.