Umar Malik

Senior Managing Director, Chief of Finance

Location: Victoria

Umar Malik joined BCI in 2018. He is currently the Senior Managing Director, Chief of Finance for Private Equity. His responsibilities include oversight of the program’s financial management and portfolio insights, including analysis and reporting to support investment decisions, and provides strategic oversight of the portfolio valuation process. With $233.0 billion of gross managed assets as of March 31, 2023, BCI is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors within the global capital markets.

Umar brings over 22 years of experience in finance, private market investments, operations, and trading. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Finance & Chief Financial Officer for BCI, leading investment and corporate accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax structuring and compliance, investment performance and analytics, financial reporting and valuations, finance client engagement, as well as finance operations. Prior to that he led operations for BCI’s public markets team, working on the implementation of major corporate initiatives. Previously, he was Head of the Trading and Structuring functions at Crestline Investors, an alternatives asset manager. Umar has also held investment roles at Northwater Capital in Toronto, and JPMorgan in New York.

Umar has completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School, holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, FCMA, CGMA designations and is a CFA^® charterholder.