Martin Gagnon

Martin Gagnon

Senior Vice President, Intermediary Business Solutions, National Bank of Canada

Martin Gagnon

Martin Gagon is currently responsible for several different units of the National Bank of Canada’s Wealth Management division including Partnership Banking, Correspondent Network, Prime Services, Direct Brokerage, Internal and External Distribution of National Bank Securities, Managed Products and the Financial Product Solutions Group.

Previously, Martin served as Co-Chief Executive Officer at Innocap in Montreal, where he focused on strategic issues, hedge fund manager relations as well as business development for Innocaps’ different alternative investment solutions.

Martin joined Innocap in 2003 from Goldman Sachs, where he served as Vice President in the International Equity Division in New York.  He has also held various positions in derivatives, fixed-income and structured product sales and trading for Goldman Sachs Canada and the Laurentian Bank. Previously he worked for the National Bank of Canada as Senior Manager, Asset/Liability Management in the Financial Engineering Group.

Martin holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Quebec in Montreal, an MBA from the University of British Columbia, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Sessions

  • Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:00pm - 2:00pm

    Social Selling

    • Dan Swift, Director of Sales, LinkedIn Sales Solutions, Financial Services, LinkedIn
    • Amy McIlwain, President, Financial Social Media
    • Martin Gagnon, Senior Vice President, Intermediary Business Solutions, National Bank of Canada
    • John Flannery, VP, Online Marketing & Communications, XL Group plc

    One of the biggest missed opportunities in business today is not leveraging LinkedIn on a corporate basis to differentiate you and your financial institution from the competition.  In this sixty-minute workshop, experts from LinkedIn Sales Solutions and senior leaders from leading financial institutions will share their innovative approaches to using LinkedIn to help support sales efforts.  You will learn about the opportunity your institution is missing by not engaging, how to build great profiles that attract prospects to your financial institution whilst deepening relationships with existing clients, how to leverage company connections to eliminate cold calls, and how to stay on top of market movements. Most importantly, you will learn about how to increase sales and reduce redundant and wasted effort by your revenue producers.