Tailwind Financial Inc.

• Public
• CA

Dow Jones Description

Tailwind Financial Inc. is a blank check development stage company formed to acquire, through a merger, capital stock exchange, asset or stock acquisition, exchangeable share transaction or other similar business combination, one or more businesses in the financial services industry. Tailwind's management team has extensive experience in the financial services sector with a particular emphasis on the Canadian asset management industry. Gordon A. McMillan, Tailwind's Chairman of the Board, has founded or co-founded four separate asset management firms in Canada and has overseen the sale of these firms to larger industry consolidators in Canada. Andrew A. McKay, Tailwind's Chief Executive Officer was the founder and, until its recent sale, the Chief Executive Officer of Fairway Asset Management Corp., or Fairway, a Canadian manager of closed-end investment trusts and venture capital funds. Tailwind's directors include Philip Armstrong, Robert C. Hain, Stephen T. Moore and Robert Penteliuk, who also have significant experience in the financial services sector. Mr. Armstrong is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Jovian Capital Corporation, a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company which invests in financial services companies and is the parent company of Fairway. Mr. Hain was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of INVESCO UK Ltd., one of the largest asset managers in the UK. Mr. Moore currently chairs the board of governors of CI Funds Inc., one of Canada's...

President and Chief Executive Officer

Number of Employees 3

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