{"id":418569,"date":"2021-03-24T12:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=418569"},"modified":"2021-04-13T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:43:01","slug":"blackrock-names-new-head-of-ishares-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/people\/blackrock-names-new-head-of-ishares-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock names new head of iShares Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madeleine Sinclair is the new head of iShares Canada with Toronto-based BlackRock Asset Management Inc., the firm said in an internal announcement.<\/p>\n

Sinclair brings more than 20 years of industry experience to the role, with 19 of those years at BlackRock.<\/p>\n

Most recently, she was a national sales manager at iShares U.S. Wealth Advisory, which focuses on the accelerated adoption and implementation of iShares ETFs with advisors.<\/p>\n

Sinclair’s “passion for clients, commercial vision and ability to leverage partnerships across the organization make her uniquely suited to advance and execute our strategic plan in Canada,” the announcement said.<\/p>\n

Sinclair will oversee institutional and retail distribution, product development and markets, and business management and sales enablement. She’ll relocate to Toronto, the announcement said.<\/p>\n

Former head of iShares Canada Pat Chiefalo left the firm last month and is now head of ETFs and indexed strategies for Canada<\/a> with Invesco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madeleine Sinclair takes the helm following the departure of Pat Chiefalo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176169,"featured_media":407424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2354,2312],"tags":[2333,2801],"yst_prominent_words":[5061,79350,79349,63908,52463,13729,12176,11194,6789,2116,5019,4036,2144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419643,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418569\/revisions\/419643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418569"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=418569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}