Sara Petrcich

As head of ETFs and Structured Solutions, Sara manages the BMO GAM Investment Teams responsible for all passive Investments, defined outcome, synthetic and rules-based investments, including the Quantitative Investment Team and Liquid Alternative Investments. She also leads the manufacturing of new and innovative products across these strategies in the Structured Solutions group which are exotic derivatives based, novel investment solutions. Sara is also responsible for Collateral Optimization across BMO GAM. Sara sits on the BMO GAM Executive Committee and the Executive BMO GAM sponsor for DEI.

Sara joined BMO GAM in August 2022 after a successful 20+ year career in Capital Markets where she grew her career in structured products trading of credit, equity and interest rate exotic derivatives, proprietary trading, Head of XVA, as well as one and a half years in the Bank on secondment for the CFO & Group Treasurer at one of Canada’s largest Banks. Sara was in a senior leadership role at BMO Global Markets as Head of Risk Strategy and part of BMO Global Markets’ leadership team, leading the business’s risk-taking strategies. She was the exclusive trusted risk advisor to the Head of Global Markets.

Sara also acts as a trusted risk advisor to the CEO of BMO GAM and Group Head of BMO Wealth.

She holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Ottawa.