Adam Vigna

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Biography

Mr. Adam Vigna is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Sagard. Mr. Vigna is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at Portage. Before Sagard, he spent nearly a decade at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ("CPPIB"), where he was Managing Director and Global Head of CPPIB's Principal Credit Investments Group ("PCI"), with approximately CA$20B of AUM. While at CPPIB, he was one of the founding members of CPPIB's Principal Credit Investment Group and led CPPIB's acquisition of Antares Capital in 2015. Before CPPIB, he was Vice-President at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group ("SSG") in New York, U.S.A., and Toronto, Canada. In 2006, he moved to Toronto from New York to become one of the three founding members of the Canadian Special Situations Group ("CSSG"). Before joining SSG, He worked in the Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division in New York, where he was part of their Financial Institutions Group ("FIG"). He holds a B.Comm. (Honours) degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He served on the boards of Antares Holdings (Chair), Antares Capital, Teine Energy, Laricina Energy, and Long Point Energy.