Toronto-based Timbercreek Asset Management Inc. has announced that Gigi Wong will be taking over the role as the firm’s chief financial officer (CFO) on Tuesday.
Wong will be responsible for overseeing financial and taxation reporting, treasury, corporate financings and the financial reporting and risk analytics platform for the firm.
Wong was most recently director of capital markets operations for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Prior to that role, she was CFO, chief compliance officer and secretary with Toronto-based CQI Capital Management LP, which was formerly GMP Investment Management, and director of investment finance at GMP Securities LP, also of Toronto.
“We are pleased to have Gigi join the senior management team at Timbercreek,” says Blair Tamblyn, managing director and CEO of Timbercreek, in a statement. “Her extensive and impressive background in finance and capital markets is an asset to our growing organization and we look forward to having her as part of the team that will continue to drive the company forward.”
Timbercreek also announced that David Melo, the firm’s current managing director of finance has been appointed to the role of president of Timbercreek Communities, the property management division responsible for the operations of the Canadian multi-residential properties held in Timbercreek-managed portfolios.
Timbercreek is an investor, owner and manager of global real estate and related assets. The firm manages more than $5 billion in alternative assets for investors.