Gregory Payne has more than 14 years of experience in the financial industry and more than three years experience focusing on investing in the environmental economy.  His experience includes acting as a financial analyst and a member of the portfolio management team for KBSH Capital Management Inc. where he was involved in the management of over $200 million of retail and institutional client assets.

Mr. Payne has taken and passed a number of securities industry courses, including the Canadian Securities Course (1996), Chartered Financial Analyst Program (2000) and Canadian Securities Derivatives Fundamentals Course (2002). He has been a CFA charterholder since 2000.

Mr. Payne graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours Statistics). He also obtained a Master of Economics (1997) and Ph.D. in  Economics (2010) from the University of Toronto.