Warda Shaheen

Warda joined OMERS Growth Equity in 2019 and co-leads the software vertical. As a Director, she assists in leading the team on all aspects of the investment process and in managing the assets of the Growth Equity portfolio.

Prior to joining OMERS, Warda worked on the Thematic Investing team at CPP Investments where she ran a $500M public markets portfolio. Previous to that role, she was with Point72 Asset Management in New York; Bain and Company in London and Chicago; and Deutsche Bank in London. 

Warda holds a BESc in Mechanical Engineering and HBA in Business Administration from Western University and the Richard Ivey School of Business, respectively. She also holds an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford and is a Kauffman Fellow. She was named in GrowthCap's Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors list of 2021

In her free time, Warda loves to go explore new travel destinations, experiment with new cooking recipes, and binge-watch Netflix with her husband.