Lisa Langley

President, CEO and Founder at Emerge Canada

Speaker

Lisa Langley is the President, CEO & Founder of Emerge. Lisa founded Emerge in January 2016 to provide distribution and marketing support for emerging asset managers. She has over 30 years of investment management industry experience. Prior to founding Emerge, Lisa has worked globally in the financial industry, she worked for over 25 years in Toronto where she was the President & COO of First Asset Advisory Services in Toronto, Canada where she raised over a billion dollars in assets and successfully sold the firm. She then went on to the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) where she was the Vice President of Member Services and following this made her way to Scotland where she was the Managing Director of Global Product Development for Alliance Trust. Lisa landed in Buffalo, NY as the Partner and CCO of Sandhill Investment Management, before founding Emerge. Having served in multiple executive roles in the product development and distribution sectors in the US, Canada, and the UK, Lisa found it was time to take her expertise and start Emerge. Most recently, Lisa was awarded CEO of the Year for financial services in Canada and recognized as the first woman investment fund company owner in Canada.