Greg Gipson

Managing Director and Head, ETFs

About

Greg Gipson is the Managing Director and Head of ETFs at CIBC Global Asset Management (CIBC GAM), a top 100 global asset manager with over 200 investment professionals managing more than C$300 billion in assets. Greg leverages his deep expertise in ETF-based portfolio construction and systematic investment strategies to advance the organization’s global ETF business.

With a proven track record of building and scaling investment platforms, Greg’s leadership is instrumental in the organization’s product platform evolution which is grounded in innovation and client-focus and serves wealth and institutional clients across Canada, the US and globally. Greg brings upwards of three decades of investment management industry experience. Prior to CIBC GAM, he ran his own consultancy where he partnered with entrepreneurs and family offices specializing in private market investments and devising innovative strategies for constructing long-term models to oversee cash flows and portfolio allocation. Previously, Greg spent five years as the Chief Investment Officer for an Outsourced Chief Investment Office where he oversaw all aspects of managing the public and private markets portfolios for ultra-high-net-worth families, family offices, and foundations. Prior to joining the OCIO, Greg spent more than eight years within the asset management arm of another large Canadian bank. In this role he was responsible for building the firm’s global equity investment capabilities and a systematic approach to fund of ETFs and funds. The latter business grew to upwards of $15 billion, before he assumed the role of Head of Portfolio Management in Canada and Global Head of Quantitative Research for the Canadian office’s multi-asset funds where he managed the first suite of machine-learning-driven mutual funds in Canada. Greg started his career following graduate school as a portfolio manager and investment strategist in the US and Japanese equity markets for a large US-based institutional investor. He co-managed their US active quantitative investment funds and worked on the development and launch of an internal hedge fund. Greg then spent nearly 10 years managing investment teams and trading desks in Tokyo Japan. He was a founding partner in a multi-strategy hedge fund, built a quantitative strategy team for a large US bank, and managed the risk trading desk for another large US bank.

Greg holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and a dual Master’s of Science in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. He is currently working on a Master's of Science in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Texas at Austin.