Blair is Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Waratah, a Toronto based alternative investment management firm. Waratah manages over $4 billion in assets across equity long short, alternative ESG, income and market neutral strategies. Waratah also manages thematic and specialty private equity strategies. In addition to setting strategy for and managing Waratah, Blair is also Executive Chairman of the Company and the portfolio manager for Waratah’s Global Electrification and Decarbonization Fund.
From 1999 to 2010, Blair held various positions at TD Securities in the Investment Banking division and was Managing Director in the Institutional Equities group at TD Securities. Blair was formerly a director at the Women's College Hospital Foundation and served on its Investment Committee for seven years, is a former member of YPO and is the current Executive Chairman of Rossiter Boats.
Blair holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario and a joint Bachelor of Laws and Masters in Business Administration from Dalhousie University.