Michael Ashmore

Constituency: Community-at-Large (elected)

Terms

  • May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2022
  • May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2025

Biography

Michael Ashmore is a Director with the External Managers Program at OMERS, the $97 billion defined benefit pension plan serving Ontario’s municipal employees. Based in New York City, he co-manages a pool of assets with a mission of helping meet OMERS retirement income obligations to its nearly 500,000 pension plan members.

Prior to joining OMERS Capital Markets in 2015, Michael was a Vice President at The Carlyle Group – DGAM, where he led research on investments in various hedge fund strategies. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Economics with Honours, from the University of Waterloo, and is a CFA® Charterholder.

He was selected as one of Chief Investment Officer magazine’s “2016 Forty Under Forty” and was a finalist for Institutional Investor magazine’s 2017 “Next CIO” award. Michael is an avid athlete, and is actively involved in a number of charitable efforts, mainly focused on youth education and opportunity.

Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, Economics with Honours, from the University of Waterloo, and is a CFA® Charterholder.

Michael Ashmore