Biography
Gaina is passionate about teaching, finance, and macroeconomics. She has extensive experience teaching corporate finance, financial modeling and valuation topics.
Over the past decade, Gaina held various positions in capital markets, gaining experience in bond origination across various sectors, including retail, real estate, home building, industrials and oil & gas. Throughout her professional career, she has maintained her academic involvement and is a part-time finance Course Director at York University.
Prior to joining The Marquee Group, Gaina worked at Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets as an Associate Director with the High Yield & Leveraged Finance group. She has been actively involved in the origination and execution of approximately $2 billion in Canadian high yield bond issuance. She has also worked on many strategic capital structure advisory files, providing views on optimal financing solutions to support leveraged buyouts, refinancing, corporate debt initiatives and acquisitions. Prior to that role, she participated in Scotiabank’s Global Capital Markets Rotational Program where she completed rotations in institutional equity sales, equity derivatives, foreign exchange, credit derivatives, corporate banking, leveraged finance and high yield origination, US debt capital markets, and emerging markets sales and trading.
In addition to her role with The Marquee Group, Gaina is also the Director of Investments and Advisory Services at Value Insight Realty, a commercial real estate company she co-founded with her husband. Gaina oversees the strategic direction, financial management and research for capital markets transactions.
Gaina holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from York University and a Master of Finance degree from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. She has also attained the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations.
