Andrew Tambone appointed as OPB’s new Chief Investment Officer

We are pleased to announce that after an extensive recruitment process conducted in partnership with executive search firm LHH Knightsbridge, Andrew Tambone will be joining OPB as our new Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Andrew’s appointment follows the upcoming retirement of our current CIO, Chris Kautzky. As CIO, Andrew will be responsible for overseeing OPB’s relationship with our asset manager, the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO), and their investment performance to ensure OPB continues to deliver the pension promise for today’s and tomorrow’s public servants.

Andrew brings significant experience as an investment executive along with a collaborative approach to working with stakeholders to develop and manage effective investment strategies. He currently serves as VP, Investments & Funding at the Alberta Teachers Retirement Fund (ATRF), and will join OPB in July.

Prior to his role with ATRF, Andrew was the Chief Investment Officer, at the Special Forces Pension Plan Corporation (SFPP Corp), where he was responsible for investment strategy and investment manager oversight. He also served as Chief Risk Officer with AIMCo and held senior roles at the Workers’ Compensation Board -Alberta, including Chief Investment Officer and Head of Fixed Income Investments. Andrew brings deep experience with direct investing, having managed fixed income portfolios for over a decade.

Andrew holds an Honours B.A. in Business Studies with a major in Accounting & Finance from the University of Westminster in London, U.K., and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

“I want to take this opportunity to thank our retiring CIO, Chris Kautzky for his years of dedication and service. Chris was instrumental in helping us advance our governance and oversight practices of IMCO and most recently worked with our Investment Committee and IMCO to establish a new Strategic Asset Allocation that will help deliver improved investment returns for the Plan.

I am very excited to welcome Andrew to the OPB team. I am confident that his leadership style, comprehensive investment executive experience, strong relationship management abilities, and his expertise in asset allocation, portfolio construction, asset-liability management, fixed-income and risk management will serve OPB and our stakeholders extremely well in the years ahead,” Darwin Bozek, President & CEO, Ontario Pension Board.