Portfolio Manager, Salida Strategic Growth Fund (Canada), Salida Strategic Growth Fund (International)
Founder of Salida Capital, Danny serves as the firm’s Chief Investment Officer and portfolio manager. Danny brings more than 17 years of natural resources investment management experience to the firm, with extensive expertise in portfolio management, equity research and trading.
Danny began his investment career in equities research at Richardson Greenshields in 1993 as an oil and gas associate. He later joined First Marathon, a resource-oriented investment firm focused in oil and gas, gold, metals and other resources, in 1995 as an equities analyst. He then joined First Marathon’s merger arbitrage group where he was responsible for trading liability positions and co-running the firm’s merger arbitrage book. He also covered hedge funds on a global basis, both from a sales and trading perspective.
Prior to founding Salida Capital in 2001, Danny joined Banfield Capital Management in 1998 as a portfolio manager and trader. He played an integral role in that firm’s successful track record including building the firm’s research and trading group, establishing their U.S. merger arbitrage business and managing the firm’s long/short portfolio from its inception in 1998.