32 years of investment banking experience encompassing all aspects of the capital markets and strategic advisory

After graduating with a degree in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University in 1986, Tim started his professional career at Shell Canada as a reservoir engineer. Here he honed his technical skills and gained an enhanced understanding of the energy industry.

Tim decided to shift his career from primarily a technical role to a more business focus and left Shell in 1988 to pursue his MBA at the Schulich School of Business. After graduating from his MBA in 1990, Tim commenced his investment banking career at CIBC in Toronto as an Associate where he developed his corporate finance skills supporting many industry groups.  Given Tim’s oil and gas experience, he was transferred to CIBC’s Calgary office and quickly rose through the ranks to become a Managing Director. In Calgary, Tim focused on energy coverage spanning upstream, downstream and energy infrastructure advisory.  Tim also played a leadership role in CIBC’s market leading income trust/royalty trust business.

In late 2006, the Government of Canada enacted legislation effectively ending the era of royalty trusts/income trusts and Tim decided to shift his investment banking focus. In January of 2007, Tim joined Lehman Brothers where he established Lehman Brothers’ Calgary office, leading the development of the firm’s capital markets presence in the region. Here he successfully leveraged Lehman’s leading Natural Resources platform to build out a significant market presence prior to Lehman’s Canadian business being acquired by Barclays in late 2008 during the financial crisis.

Tim has been at Barclays since late 2008 and since that time has headed Barclays’ Canadian Investment Banking business with overarching administrative responsibility for investment banking personnel across the Toronto and Calgary offices. He has been instrumental in materially growing the investment banking business following the acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ Canadian operations (>200% increase in banking revenue from 2010 to 2021).  Tim has had significant involvement in the hiring of seven Managing Directors to grow leadership talent pool.  Barclays is now a top international bank in Canada (#1 fee share of non-Canadian banks H1 2023).

Aside from Tim’s administrative duties, he also has key coverage responsibility which spans the wider Canadian Energy industry (upstream, midstream, downstream, infrastructure and retail). Tim has extensive experience advising companies in international markets (Japan, China, US, UK, Europe), cross-border deals and complex transactions. Tim also provides senior leadership to Barclays’ new and growing sustainable banking/clean technology business.