Jerry is the founder and Executive Chairman of Copper Street Capital LLP, an independent investment firm. Previously, he was a senior executive of Barclays Bank Plc in London and New York for many years and also worked at Bankers Trust and Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto.

Jerry is a past Chairman of the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), and a member of the boards of the Global Financial Markets Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. He currently serves on the board of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Maple Leaf Trust in London.

A passionate believer in the transformative power of education, Jerry also serves as a board member of Room to Read, a global education and literacy organization, and the Advisory Board of Queen’s University Smith School of Business in Kingston, Canada. He is also a past member of the Board of Trustees at Queen’s University, where he studied, earning a BSc (Chemical Engineering) and an MBA.