About ICBC

Salima Remtulla

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Salima Remtulla is a finance executive with international experience directing corporate strategy and building high-performance teams. Recently, she drove organizational change as Vice President of Operations and Corporate Strategy at Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel Ltd.

Ms. Remtulla was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 by Caldwell Partners in 2021 and is a 2018 Business in Vancouver Top 40 Under 40 honouree. Previously, she was the Chief Operating Officer of Global Private Investing at D. E. Shaw & Co​. LP, a multi-strategy hedge fund headquartered in New York City.

Ms. Remtulla is a graduate of Yale University and a Palmer Scholar of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, from which she holds an MBA, placed in the top 5% of her class and won the peer-voted Benjamin Franklin Award for strong work ethic and teamwork. She is a CFA charterholder certified in financial risk management and governance for not-for-profit directors, and is currently a candidate for the CPHR human resources designation.

In the community, Ms. Remtulla is a Director of LIFT Impact Partners, and a Member-at-Large on the board of the B.C.​ Business Council. She previously served as the Chair of the Vancouver Hospice Society, as a member of the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation’s capital campaign cabinet and contributed to a think tank in the Ismaili community.