Andrey Omelchak

Chairman

Andrey Omelchak is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of LionGuard Capital Management Inc., the Company he founded in April 2014. As President & CEO, Andrey sets the Company’s corporate direction, makes key personnel hiring decisions and ensures adherence to the highest ethical and professional standards in all dealings. As Chief Investment Officer, Andrey oversees the investment strategy of the Funds managed by the Company.

His role of Chief Investment Officer includes asset allocation decisions, stock selection decisions, and a rigorous risk management process. Andrey ensures that all research personnel adheres to core investment philosophy and effectively contributes towards strengthening Company’s research expertise. Mr. Omelchak also oversees interactions with LionGuard’s sophisticated client base, which includes institutional investors, family offices, fund of funds and select investment advisers.

Before LionGuard, Andrey worked as a Portfolio Manager, Canadian Equities, at a Montreal-based Montrusco Bolton Investments Inc. At Montrusco, between October 2010 and March 2014, Andrey co-managed Canadian Small Capitalization Equity Fund, Canadian Medium Capitalization Equity Fund, and other mandates, with combined assets under management of approximately C$1.35 billion. In addition, he designed options overlay strategy, which was successfully marketed to the Company’s institutional clients. Andrey left Montrusco to start LionGuard Capital at the end of March 2014.

Prior to that, Andrey worked in the sell-side research department at Dundee Securities (currently Eight Capital). Andrey strongly believes that an excellent understanding of the inner workings of the sell-side makes him a better fund manager. Before Dundee, Andrey worked in research, trading and risk management roles at a Montreal-based Bellator Fund Management. Initially hired as a risk manager, Andrey subsequently moved to research and trading roles within the company.

Mr. Omelchak graduated with distinction from Concordia University, in Montreal, where he completed both his B.Comm, and M.Sc. (Finance) degrees. His graduate thesis was published in The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Derivatives & Hedge Funds, as well as presented at several academic conferences. Andrey also obtained Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation from Global Association of Risk Professionals, Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) designation from Canadian Securities Institute and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from CFA Institute.

Andrey is a frequent guest and commentator on Bloomberg BNN, Reuters, Financial Post, Les Affaires and other media companies.


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Accredited Investor Status Questionnaire

Units of the Funds are offered to qualified investors resident in the provinces and territories of Canada (the “Offering Jurisdictions”) pursuant to applicable exemptions from the prospectus requirements of the securities laws in the Offering Jurisdictions. Qualified investors must rely on one of the following exemptions available to purchase units of the Funds:

1. ACCREDITED INVESTOR EXEMPTION:
The Funds will accept subscriptions from investors who qualify as an “accredited investor” under the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus  Exemption ("NI 45-106") or, for Ontario residents, Section 73.3 of the Securities Act (Ontario). Some of the most common ways to qualify as an accredited investor are:

(d) a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as an adviser or dealer;

(e) an individual registered or formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d);

(j) an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds $1,000,000;

(k) an individual whose net income before taxes exceeded $200,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years or whose net income before taxes combined with that of a spouse exceeded $300,000 in each of the 2 most recent calendar years and who, in either case, reasonably expects to exceed that net income level in the current calendar year;

(Note: If individual accredited investors wish to purchase through wholly-owned holding companies or similar entities, such purchasing entities must qualify under section (t) below, which must be initialed.)

(l) an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, has net assets of at least $5,000,000;

(m) a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least $5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements;

(n) an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to:

(i) a person that is or was an accredited investor at the time of the distribution,

(ii) a person that acquires or acquired securities in the circumstances referred to in sections 2.10 [Minimum amount investment] or 2.19 [Additional investment in investment funds] of NI 45- 106, or

(iii) a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) that acquires or acquired securities under section 2.18 [Investment fund reinvestment] of NI 45-106;

(o) an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt;

(p) a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be;

(q) a person acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by that person, if that person is registered or authorized to carry on business as an adviser or the equivalent under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction;

(r) a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) that, in regard to the trade, has obtained advice from an eligibility adviser or an adviser registered under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of the registered charity to give advice on the securities being traded;

(s) an entity organized in a foreign jurisdiction that is analogous to any of the entities referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) or paragraph (i) in form and function;

(t) a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors;

(u) an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser, or;

(v) a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as an accredited investor.