• Member of the Governance Committee

Amit Prakash joined AIMCo in 2020 as its first Chief Investment Strategy Officer with a subsequent title change to Chief Fiduciary Management Officer, reflecting an expanded role in serving the needs of clients. Amit was formerly Managing Director, Multi Asset Solutions, Canada at BMO Global Asset Management in Toronto. Prior to this role, Amit was Managing Director, Global Exchange Traded Funds and Alternative Investments and was also responsible for establishing and leading BMO Global Asset Management’s Asia business based out of Hong Kong.

His career spans portfolio management, investment and product strategy and trading roles with top global investment management firms such as BlackRock in Singapore Barclays Global Investors in London, & Toronto and Wells Fargo Nikko Advisors in San Francisco.

Amit holds an MBA from Tulane University, a master of economics and bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Delhi and is a CFA charterholder.

• Member of the Governance Committee

Bruce Cooper is Chief Executive Officer of TD Asset Management Inc. (TDAM) as well as Senior Vice President of TD Bank Group. He is responsible for all TDAM business including Investment Management, TD Mutual Funds, Operations, Risk Management and Distribution and Epoch Investment Partners. He is also Chief Executive Officer of Epoch Investment Partners. He has been with TDAM for more than 25 years and has worked in both Toronto and the UK, managing Canadian, U.S. and Global Equities across a variety of mandates. Bruce sits on the Board of Directors of IFIC (The Investment Funds Institute of Canada) and is Chair of the Board of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance. He is a member of the board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada and a member of the Endowment Board of West Neighborhood House. Bruce holds a B. Comm from Queen’s University, an MA in Political Science from McGill University and is a CFA Charter Holder.

• Member of the Environmental and Social Committee

Chuck is an impassioned leader, committed life-long learner and national mental health champion.  A senior executive with deep knowledge of finance, operations and corporate governance, Chuck’s proudest professional achievement is his appointment as the inaugural CEO of Provident10.

In this capacity, Chuck oversees an $11B fund as the administrator of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Public Service Pension Plan. With over 57,000 of his community members entrusting him to manage their financial futures and safeguard their retirements, Chuck holds himself to the highest ethical standards.

With over 30 years of financial services under his belt, including designations as Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA), Chartered Director (C. Dir) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chuck has recently undertaken the personal ambition of pursuing a post graduate degree in business law (LLM), further deepening and broadening his professional worldview.

Chuck believes that a successful company is a psychologically healthy one, a perspective that has been cemented through his tenure as Board Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. In this role, Chuck has a front row seat to some of the most exciting research and innovations in the mental health space, and has become an advocate for workplace mental health and suicide prevention.

Chuck’s other affiliations include:

• Association of Canadian Pension Management Board of Directors (Vice Chair)
• Canadian Coalition of Good Governance Board of Directors
• Canadian Public Sector Leadership Council Board of Directors
• Canadian Mental Health Association Pension Plan Board of Trustees

• Chair of the Governance Committee

Julie Cordeiro, Vice President, is the Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel at Burgundy Asset Management, an independent and global investment manager providing discretionary investment management services for private clients, foundations, endowments, pensions and family offices. Founded in 1991, Burgundy has employed a quality-value investment approach to preserve and grow its client’s capital over the long term. Burgundy has a strong history of leadership in corporate governance and was a founding member of the CCGG.

Julie oversees the general administration and operations of the firm. She is a member of the Burgundy Management Team, Chair of the Operational Governance Group and Chair of the Crisis Management Team, playing a strategic advisory role on corporate initiatives, business operations and risk matters.

Prior to joining Burgundy, Julie was In House Legal Counsel at the Portfolio Management Association of Canada (PMAC) where she worked with various securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations and all levels of government while formulating key advocacy positions on behalf of the investment management industry. Prior to that, Julie was Legal Counsel at the Ontario Securities Commission in the Corporate Finance Branch.  Julie spent the early part of her career as an Associate at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in the Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups.

Julie is a member of the Board of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) and is the Chair of CCGG’s Governance Committee. She also serves as a Director of the Burgundy Legacy Foundation.

Julie holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from New York University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Windsor.

• Member of the Public Policy Committee

Following a short stint with the Bank of Montreal in a credit role, in 1989, Phil started his career in the investment management industry with Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel. Over his four years at Leith Wheeler, he managed a variety of responsibilities including trading the bond portfolio, performing security analysis on US and Canadian public equities as well as portfolio construction responsibilities for the firm’s two mutual funds. He joined the partnership in 1992.

In January 1993, Phil joined Connor Clark and Lunn Investment Management as a partner and Canadian equity analyst on the fundamental equity team. Over the following decade he transitioned through a number of roles culminating in the leadership of the team in 2002. Over that period Phil covered virtually every industry in Canada. A key part of the investment process was engagement with the leadership of management of each company and this due diligence typically resulted in over 150 company meetings a year.

In 2003, Phil joined the Board of Directors at CC&L taking on additional business management and leadership responsibilities for the firm. In 2006, he took over the leadership of the client relationship team along with leadership of product development initiatives for the firm. He sits on the risk management committee and has been on the Board of the Connor Clark and Lunn Foundation for over 20 years.

Phil has also been active in the community on a number of levels. Most notably, in September 2000, Phil led a small group in a grass roots initiative to create a Foundation to provide an alternative education program to engage the Province’s at risk youth. The Take a Hike Foundation supports vulnerable youth in a full-time program of intensive and continuous clinical counselling, outdoor adventure, academics and community. As a founder and Chair of the Board, Phil has overseen steady growth of the past 20 years which has resulted in accolades from the Provincial Government, more than $13mm being raised and programs being set-up in five school districts across the Province.

• Member of the Finance Committee

Vincent Delisle has been Executive Vice-President and Head of Liquid Markets since August 2020. In this role, he leads the teams responsible for the Equity Markets, Fixed Income and Asset Allocation portfolios. He also leads the teams in charge of Investment Funds and External Management and the Quantitative Strategies and Data science. His mandate includes developing successful investment strategies for CDPQ and ensuring their execution by optimizing the risk-return relationship for the portfolios under his responsibility. He sits on the Executive and Investment Risk Committees.

Mr. Delisle has over 25 years of experience in asset allocation strategy, global equity markets and portfolio management. Before joining CDPQ, he was Co Chief Investment Officer at Hexavest for two years.

From 2004 to 2018, he worked at Scotia Bank, where he served as Director of Equity Research, Québec and Managing Director, Portfolio and Quantitative Strategy in the Capital Markets division. In these roles, he was the bank’s chief strategist, and his investment recommendations were followed by thousands of brokers who advised individuals and by Scotia Bank’s institutional clients around the world.

From 1997 to 2004, he was a Portfolio Strategist at Desjardins Securities. He began his career trading stocks and bonds at investment firm Eterna Trust. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Université Laval and is a CFA Charterholder.

For each of the six years from 2013 to 2018, in recognition by his peers for the quality of his work, Mr. Delisle was ranked #1Analyst in Portfolio Strategy in the prestigious Greenwich Associates rankings and for three years in Brendan Woods International rankings. A skilled communicator, he has given numerous media interviews on topics related to equity markets.

Asif brings over 25 years of experience in finance and investments to the CAAT Pension Plan. As CIO, Asif leads CAAT’s investment team in managing a portfolio designed to generate sufficient long-term returns to keep benefits secure. Prior to his appointment as CIO, Asif was responsible for CAAT’s public market investments program. Asif sits on the Board of Directors of the Pension Investment Association of Canada, and serves as Chair of its Audit & Finance Committee. In addtion, Asif is an Investment Committee Member of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of Nunavut Tunngavik, Inc. He earned a master’s degree in economics from theUniversity of Toronto, and is a CFA charterholder.

• Member of the Governance Committee

As the President and CEO of UBC Investment Management Inc. (UBCIM), Dawn Jia is responsible for the overall investment activities and monitoring of the porfolios under UBCIM’s oversight. She also oversees the operations of UBCIM and provides strategic and operating objectives to the organization. Prior to joining UBCIM, Dawn was a Senior Porfolio Manager at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). At CPPIB, Dawn and her team were responsible for ensuring that the total porfolio delivered on its overall mandate, by rebalancing it to the desired systematic exposures.

Before Dawn joined CPPIB in 2013, she was Vice President and Head of Active Equity for North America at State Street Global Advisors. Previously, she was an equity porfolio manager at Barclays Global Investors and a quantitative strategist at CIBC World Markets.

Dawn is a Board Member of Vancouver Foundation and the Chair of its Investment Committee. She also serves on the Board of Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG). Previously, she served on the Investment Committee of Ontario Hospital Association (OHA). Dawn is a founding member of the Advisory Board of Western University’s Master of Financial Economics Program.

Dawn received her MBA from the Ivey Business School and an MS in Engineering from Tianjin University in China. She is also a CFA charterholder.

• Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee

Michael Kelly is the Chief Legal & Sustainability Officer of OMERS.  He oversees OMERS Legal Division and is involved in various matters relating to investment and pension law, regulatory affairs and corporate governance, including working closely with the Board of Directors.  Mr. Kelly leads OMERS approach to sustainable investing and ESG, having developed OMERS Sustainable Investing Framework in 2019, and is Chair of the Sustainable Investing Committee.

Prior to assuming this role in 2014, Mr. Kelly served as Executive Vice President & General Counsel at Borealis Infrastructure (now OMERS Infrastructure), the infrastructure investment arm of OMERS, which he joined in 2006.  Prior to joining OMERS, he practiced corporate, commercial and regulatory law, both in-house and with firms in Toronto, London, England and Ottawa.

Mr. Kelly also represents OMERS on the boards or committees of various domestic and international organizations including Canada’s Sustainable Finance Action Council, the Investor Leadership Network and the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance.

Mr. Kelly was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1994.  He holds a BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University (1989), an LLB from the University of Toronto (1992), and an MA (International Relations) from the University of Toronto (2004).  He also holds the designation of Chartered Director (C. Dir).

• Member of the Public Policy Committee

A graduate of McGill University (Bachelor of Commerce) and a CFA charterholder, Mr. Letko founded Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc. with Daniel Brosseau in 1987. Headquartered in Montreal, Letko Brosseau is a private investment management firm that manages more than $17 billion of assets for private and institutional clients. The firm’s objective is to create value through the management of publicly traded securities according to an investment approach based on in house, independent research, valuation discipline, a global perspective and a long-term horizon.

Prior to founding Letko Brosseau, Mr. Letko was Manager, Investments with the CN Pension Fund.

• Vice-Chair of the Governance Committee

Peter Lindley joined OPTrust as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2019 to lead one of Canada’s largest defined benefit (DB) pension plans with offices in Toronto, London and Sydney.

As CEO Peter is responsible for the fund’s overall strategic direction, Member-Driven Investing strategy, pension administration and organizational performance. He is committed to the fund’s long-term sustainability and service excellence to OPTrust’s members. Under Peter’s leadership, OPTrust has prioritized investing in the transition to a lower-carbon world and an inclusion, diversity and equity strategy. He is a strong advocate for DB pensions and broadening retirement security to more Ontarians.

Peter is a financial services industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in strategy, investments, and leading high-performance teams. Prior to joining OPTrust, he served as President and Head of Investments at State Street Global Advisors, where he was responsible for the firm’s overall Canadian business strategy.

Peter obtained a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Leicester, U.K. and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto.

Marcia Moffat is the Country Head of Canada for BlackRock, a global investment management and technology solutions firm that helps a wide range of Canadian investors build better financial futures.  Marcia drives the vision and strategic direction for BlackRock’s Canadian operations, while empowering or Institutional Client, iShares, and Aladdin teams to support and deliver against a range of Canadian investor needs.

Beyond the firm, Marcia is a strong supporter of the not-for-profit sector and her community. She believes companies and governments should take a long-term view to better society and is actively involved with the C.D. Howe Institute, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and the Business Council of Canada, and has prior involvement with the Ontario Brain Institute and Loran Scholars Foundation, among others.

• Member of the Finance Committee

Jim has overall responsibility for investment management for Scotia GAM and as COO of 1832 Asset Management L.P., is responsible for the development of strategies and initiatives to enhance investment performance and investment processes for the firm. Jim has overall responsibility for talent management of a team of portfolio managers, analysts and traders. He is responsible for investment oversight, risk management, management of operational policies and guidelines, and investment performance reporting.

With more than 25 years of industry experience, Jim joined the firm in 2000. Jim received an Honours Bachelor of Commerce and Economics Degree from the University of Windsor and holds the CPA, CMA designation. He is a Director of 1832 Asset Management G.P. Inc. and is the Chair and a member of the Product and Finance Committees, respectively. Jim is a Director of Tangerine Investment Management Inc. and Tangerine Investment Management Limited.

• Member of the Environmental and Social Committee

Charles Nadim is Head of Research and co-manages the firm’s Canadian equity strategies. He is a member of the firm’s Investment Strategy Committee, which ensures adherence to Jarislowsky Fraser’s long-standing investment philosophy and disciplined process. As a member of the firm’s Management Committee, he helps to guide strategic direction and the firm’s commitment to excellence in research.

Mr. Nadim joined the firm in 2008 and was named a Partner in 2012. He has been an international and North American research analyst, and was appointed Canadian Equity Manager in May 2012.

Prior to joining Jarislowsky Fraser, Mr. Nadim worked for seven years at GE Asset Management Canada as an equity research analyst and portfolio manager. He also spent three years at Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting.

Mr. Nadim has been a commentator on BNN and other business publications. He also taught Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management at McGill University.

• Vice-Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee

Prior to founding Summerhill Capital, Mary was a senior partner at Laketon Investment Management and a member of the Global Equities Team. Mary attained her strong background in global financial analysis and portfolio management while at CIBC World Markets as Managing Director of the International Equities Group.

​Mary is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), has an Honours B.A. from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and has the ICD.D designation from the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program. She is also bilingual (Spanish). Mary is currently an Independent Director on the Board of BNY Trust Company of Canada, as well as a director on the Board of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG). Previous commitments include being a member of the CCGG Public Policy Committee and board member and Chair of the HR and Governance Committee of the Condominium Authority of Ontario (CAO), Member of the Atkinson Foundation Investment Committee, Board Member and Committee Chair of Memberships, International Programme and Governance of the Toronto CFA Society,  Board Member of Oolagen (Youth Mental Health Organization now part of Lumenus Community Services), Member of an Advisory Committee at the March of Dimes, as well as serving as a member of the Ontario Securities Commission Registrant Advisory Committee.