Investment Team

Ruben Gomez-Garcia joined Pender in July 2023 as an Equity Analyst on the small caps team.   Prior to joining Pender, Ruben was an Equity Research Associate at RBC where he covered diversified financials. He also has research experience in industrials and consumer equities. Ruben is a proud alumnus of the Beedie School of Business at […]

Tracy Tidy joined Pender’s investment team as an Equity Analyst in January 2019. She began her investing career in 2000 and worked as an Institutional Equity Sales Trader for two multi-national investment firms before moving to a well-regarded deep-value asset manager based in Vancouver where Tracy spent ten-years as an Associate Vice President focusing on […]

Based in Montreal, Meryeme joined Pender in 2022, bringing over seven years of experience in healthcare and enterprise software, both as an operator and investor. Before joining Pender, Meryeme most recently worked at BDC Capital’s Women In Tech Venture Fund, where she led investments for multiple early-stage / growth companies across biotech, enterprise software and […]

Sharon Wang joined the Manager’s Investment Team in November 2013 and is a Senior Equity Analyst. Prior to joining the Manager, Sharon was a Research Associate at a brokerage firm based in Vancouver, where she specialized in the information technology and consumer products sectors and special situations. Sharon has a profound knowledge of the Canadian/US […]

Parul Garg is Pender’s stressed and distressed credit investing specialist. Since joining the Pender Corporate Bond Fund portfolio management team in 2015, Parul has quarterbacked numerous successful workouts with stressed and distressed investments. With a track record of value creation in these credits, Pender has launched the Pender Credit Opportunities Fund for accredited investors, managed […]

Stephen joined Pender in October 2024 as an Associate Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining Pender, Stephen worked in private investments. He has also worked at a large Canadian asset manager as a high yield credit analyst. Stephen graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. He […]

Aman Budhwar is a Portfolio Manager in the Pender Equity Investment Team. He joined Pender in February 2022.  Aman is passionate about capital markets and has over 25 years of experience in the field of equity research, analysis and stock-picking. Prior to joining Pender, Aman held Senior Equity Analyst positions at leading Canadian fund and […]

Emily Wheeler joined Pender in October 2019 and is a Portfolio Manager working on the Pender Corporate Bond Fund and the Pender Bond Universe Fund. Prior to joining Pender, Emily worked for a Vancouver based investment management firm that ran mandates including value, fixed income, growth and several alternative strategies. She began her career there in 2004 […]

Amar Pandya is the Portfolio Manager of the Pender Alternative Arbitrage Fund, Pender Alternative Arbitrage Plus Fund and the Pender Alternative Special Situations Fund. He joined the company in October 2017. Amar began his investment career in 2011 in the Portfolio Management Training Program at a large global financial services company. He moved to pursue […]