Kambiz Kazemi

Chief Investment Officer

Kambiz Kazemi is the Chief Investment Officer at Validus Risk Management, where he heads the firm’s investment products and solutions activities geared towards risk management and hedging as well as overlays and alpha generation. Prior to joining Validus, he was a partner at LFC (acquired by Validus) and previously Senior Vice President and Co-Head of the Equity and Commodity Sales & Trading Desk at Newedge (now Société Générale). With two decades of experience in financial services, his area of focus and expertise are macro and systematic derivative-based strategies. During his career, Kambiz managed multi-asset portfolios and option-based strategies at some of Canada’s most reputable alternative asset managers, including Polar Asset Management. He has actively invested through a wide range of market regimes, including the Great Financial Crisis of 2008 and the 2020 pandemic. Kambiz is a graduate of Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electricité et de Mécanique de Nancy. He received an MBA from McGill University and is a CFA Charter holder.