Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Sagard Holdings
Adam Vigna is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Sagard Holdings, a multi strategy alternative asset manager that today invests across 4 asset classes: private equity, private credit (Sagard Credit Partners), venture capital (Portag3 Ventures and Diagram Ventures) and healthcare royalties (Sagard Healthcare Royalties Partners). Sagard Holdings is a wholly owned subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada, where Adam also serves as Vice-President.
Prior to joining Sagard Adam led the Global Principal Credit Investments Group (“PCI”) at the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (“CPPIB”) with approximately CAD 20 billion of AUM. Prior to joining CPPIB, Adam was Vice-President at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group (“SSG”) in New York and Toronto. In 2006, he moved to Toronto from New York to become one of the three founding members of the Canadian Special Situations Group (“CSSG”). Before joining SSG, Adam worked in Goldman's Investment Banking Division in New York where he was a part of their Financial Institutions Group (“FIG”). Adam currently serves on the board of Peak Achievement Athletics.