James Donegan

James is co-founder of AGAWA. He has over thirty-nine years of investment experience in the pension management and investment dealer industries.  For twenty-one years he worked as an investor in public market roles at OMERS. From 2007 - 2015 he was President of OMERS Capital Markets and ultimately responsible for all publicly traded investment portfolios including equity, fixed income, currency, hedge funds as well as all aspects of risk management. He was a member of the OMERS Executive Senior Leadership team. In his role at OMERS he implemented a complete separation of portfolio Alpha and Beta in the capital markets portfolio, established the process of risk budgeting and created the risk-balanced approach to managing portfolio Beta that will be the investment strategy pursued in AGAWA Fund I. James has served on a number of Boards and Committees through the course of his career including a role as an independent Director on the Board of Directors of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). He is currently Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Archdiocese of Toronto. James has a BA in Economics from Carleton University, an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.