 He graduated from Concordia University in 1980 with a BBA  and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1982, where he is a member of the Board of Overseers.Jabre trained at JP Morgan and then BNP Paribas the French bank.In his 16 years there, he specialised in the budding market for convertible arbitrage, a strategy that involved buying a company’s convertible bonds and selling short the company’s stock.