Tim McElvaine CA CFA
Tim is the founder and President of McElvaine Investment Management Ltd. Tim founded McElvaine Value Fund in 1996. Tim was previously Chief Investment Officer at Cundill Funds having worked with value investor Peter Cundill for many years. Tim has served on the Board of Directors of several publicly listed companies including: Sun-Rype Products Ltd., Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc., Rainmaker Entertainment Inc., Glacier Media Inc., and currently Wecommerce Holdings Ltd. Tim has  been a speaker at many value investing conferences including the Value Investing Seminar in Italy, Institute of Advanced Financial Planners Annual Symposium and The Ben Graham Centre's Value Investing Conference. In addition Tim is often quoted in The Globe and Mail, on TV and in other media as well as was featured in the investment book Stock Market Superstars.  Tim and Kate live in Victoria where they try to keep up with their blended family of 8.

Tim manages McElvaine Value Fund (formerly called The McElvaine Investment Trust) and works with Lorne on The Osler Fund.

Lorne Porayko, MD, FRCP(C), CIM
​Lorne is a staff critical care physician and anaesthesiologist practicing in Victoria, BC for the past 18+ years. He is an Assistant Professor and an award-winning clinical teacher in the Island Medical School Program. He has done both clinical and volunteer work in Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Ontario over his medical career. Lorne has twin intellectual passions: value investing and resuscitation medicine. He balances these with his devotion to his family and his closest friends. In his spare time, he analyzes companies, trains in Muay Thai alongside his lovely wife, Jennifer.

Lorne works with Tim on The Osler Fund.

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Thank you Peter Cundill!
​Tim worked with Peter for 12 years and Peter remained his largest client until his passing in 2011. After a visit with Peter in the summer of 2008, Tim wrote the following note: