• Member of the Governance Committee
• Member of the Public Policy Committee

Marcia Moffat, Managing Director, is Country Head of Canada for BlackRock, a global investment management and technology solutions firm that manages over US$7 trillion in assets on behalf of investors worldwide.

Through its institutional client and iShares businesses, and growing technology and advisory services, BlackRock Canada helps a wide range of investors build better financial futures. The BlackRock Canada team is focused on sharing the very best of our firm’s global capabilities and local expertise with our Canadian clients.

As Country Head, Marcia is responsible for the leadership and strategic direction of BlackRock’s Canadian operations. Marcia is also a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee and Americas Executive Committee.

Beyond the firm, Marcia is actively involved with several industry and not-for-profit organizations. She chairs the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, sits on the board of the Ontario Brain Institute, the C.D. Howe Institute and the Business Council of Canada, and dedicates time to a number of philanthropic activities.

Marcia has spent most of her career in financial services, including several years at the Royal Bank of Canada where she held progressively senior roles in Investment Banking, Investor Relations and Retail Banking. Earlier in her career, she worked as a corporate finance lawyer in the New York and Paris offices of Shearman & Sterling.

Marcia holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, a JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a Bachelor of Science (biology) from McGill University.

• Chair of the Governance Committee
• Vice Chair of the Member Engagement Committee

Julie Cays is the Chief Investment Officer at the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (CAAT) Pension Plan which is the jointly sponsored, defined benefit pension plan for 43,000 members from 38 employers in the post secondary sector in Ontario. Julie joined CAAT in 2006 and has been instrumental in shaping the $10.8 billion CAAT investment portfolio to meet the Plan’s long term funding goals. She has more than 30 years of capital markets and pension investment experience gained at CIBC and at Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).

Julie is Chair of the Investment Committee of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and is past Chair of the Pension Investment Association of Canada.

Born in Toronto, she received her degree in economics from the University of Waterloo and has her Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

• Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee

Derek Brodersen is Chief Investment Officer of the Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board (ATRF), an independent corporation that administers the pension plans for teachers in the province of Alberta, Canada.

• Member of the Finance and Audit Committee
• Member of the Governance Committee

Dan Chornous is Chief Investment Officer of RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM), the Royal Bank of Canada’s wholly-owned investment management subsidiary.

• Vice Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee

Martin began working at Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. (“CC&L”) in 1991 as an analyst. Over the ensuing 10 years Martin had a broad range of responsibilities including equity trading, fundamental and quantitative research, strategy and portfolio management. Martin was Head of the Quantitative equity team from 2000 to 2015. Martin was appointed Vice-President in 1994 and became a Director of CC&L in 1999. In 2013, Martin was appointed President and Chief Investment Officer and Chair of the Risk Management Committee of CC&L.

Martin is on several non-for profit Boards and Committees.

• Vice Chair of the Public Policy Committee
• Member of the Finance & Audit Committee

Duane Green is president and CEO of Franklin Templeton Investments Canada and of Fiduciary Trust Company of Canada. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, he oversees Franklin Templeton’s Canadian business.

Mr. Green previously served as managing director – Canada, responsible for the firm’s Canadian retail, institutional and HNW distribution business. Prior to that, he was head of Institutional, Canada. Mr. Green joined Franklin Templeton in 2004 as vice president, Strategic Alliances. Before joining the firm, he was a vice president at an international insurer.

Mr. Green is chair of the board and director of Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., director of Fiduciary Trust Company of Canada and is chair and director of FTC Investor Services Inc. He also serves as president, CEO and director of both Templeton Growth Fund Ltd and Franklin Templeton Corporate Class Funds Ltd. He is on the Board of Directors of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC), the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) and Business for the Arts (BftA). He also sits on the Pension Committee of Canada’s National Ballet School and is a past board member of Canada’s National

Ballet School and of Crohn’s and Colitis Canada. In 2017, he was honoured as recipient of the Women in Capital Markets Male Leadership Award.

Mr. Green has a degree in economics from the University of Ottawa and is a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. He holds the FMA, CIM, and FCSI designations.

• Vice Chair of the Governance Committee
• Member of the E&S Committee

Stéphanie Lachance is Vice President, Responsible Investment – Total Fund Strategy Group at PSP Investments. She leads the Responsible Investment group which plays an advisory role to the organization, ensuring that environmental, social and governance factors are incorporated in the investment strategy and across all asset classes. She is a member of the Senior Management Group Committee and Risk and Investment Committee of PSP Investments.

Prior to joining PSP Investments in 2006, Stéphanie was Senior Legal Counsel Compliance and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Quebecor Media. Previously, Stéphanie was Manager Corporate Finance at the Autorité des marchés financiers, Legal Counsel at the Toronto Stock Exchange and Corporate Finance Analyst-Legal Counsel at the at the Montréal Exchange. She started her career practicing corporate and securities law.

Stéphanie holds a Law Degree (LLB) from the Université de Montréal and is a member of the Quebec Bar. She is a Board member of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG), Chair of the Member Engagement Committee of the CCGG and a member of the Investment Fund Review Committee of the Corporation de services du Barreau du Québec.

• Member of the Member Engagement 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 $27 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

• Member of the Finance & Audit Committee
• Member of the Public Policy Committee

Maxime Ménard is President & CEO of Jarislowsky, Fraser Limited and a director on the firm’s Board of Directors. Founded in 1955, Jarislowsky Fraser is one of Canada’s leading investment management firms and manages the portfolios of pension funds, foundations and endowments, corporations and individuals in Canada and internationally. The firm has been a leader in advancing good governance, seeking to improve corporate governance for the benefit of all stakeholders. Jarislowsky Fraser has always been actively involved in CCGG and its mission. The firm’s founder, Stephen Jarislowsky, co-founded the CCGG to promote good governance practices in the companies owned by its members.

Mr. Ménard has over 20 years of experience in the investment industry. He joined Jarislowsky Fraser in 2003 and was a long-standing partner at the firm. In his various senior roles at Jarislowsky Fraser, including Executive Vice-President, he has provided strong leadership in the firm’s growth and expansion, setting the strategic framework and overseeing day-to-day operations.

Active in the community, Mr. Ménard has been a member of several boards and committees, such as the Foundation du Musée National des Beaux Arts du Quebec and the St-Justine Hospital Foundation.

He is a graduate of York University (Bachelor of Arts) and received a Master’s in Business Administration from HEC Montréal.

• Member of the Governance Committee

Kim founded Sionna in 2002 and has more than 35 years of industry experience. She is the president and co-chief investment officer at Sionna, and was previously chief investment officer and senior vice president at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers Canada. Kim serves as a board member with the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and is the Chair of its Governance Committee. She is also on the board for the Brandes Institute, the Ontario Arts Foundation, United Corporation (a listed closed-end fund), a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s National Council and the CFA Institute Board of Regents (she previously served as its chair). Kim is also a past president of the CFA Society Toronto. She was awarded Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year (2005), the RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur Award, the Women’s Executive Network’s Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award (2007, 2017), continuously listed as one of Profit Magazine’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs over the last several years and a recipient of the 2015 Rotman Women in Management Association Top 10 Awards (Entrepreneur Category).

• Member of the Member Engagement Committee
• Member of the E&S Committee

John Sinclair is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vestcor Inc. (formerly the N.B. Investment Management Corporation – NBIMC) and is primarily responsible for the investment management and benefit administration services for several public sector-based client groups that total more than $16.5 billion in assets.

He started his career in a logistics planning role with General Motors Corporation and worked in a number of corporate and investment banking positions with Citigroup Inc. John joined NBIMC in 2000, was the Chief Investment Officer from 2002 until early 2016 and has been the President and Chief Executive Officer since 2003.

A native of New Brunswick, he holds both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, and a Master’s in Business Administration with distinction from the Ivey Business School at Western University. He serves as a Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, and the Advisory Board of Atlantic Industries Limited, participates on the Investment Committee of the University of New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, and the Fredericton Community Foundation, and is a past Director of the Pension Investment Association of Canada.

• Member of the Member Engagement Committee
• Member of the Public Policy Committee

Daren Smith is the President and Chief Investment Officer at University of Toronto Asset Management (UTAM), which invests over $10 billion in assets on behalf of the University of Toronto. Since 2000, UTAM has been the investment manager for the University of Toronto’s Pension, Endowment and short-term working capital assets.

Daren joined UTAM in November 2008 and over time assumed increasing levels of responsibility. Immediately prior to becoming President and Chief Investment Officer in September 2016, Daren was the Managing Director and head of UTAM’s manager selection team (now the Investment team), which is responsible for all investment-related manager selection and monitoring activities.

Prior to joining UTAM, Daren spent four years at Keel Capital, where he was a partner and a senior member of the investment team that managed the assets of a Nova Scotia–based pension plan. Daren spent the early part of his career at Sun Life Financial and then Maritime Life, working in an actuarial capacity.

Daren holds an honours undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science (B.Sc. Hons) from the University of Western Ontario, a Master’s degree in Statistics (M.Sc.) from the University of British Columbia and a Master’s degree in Economics (M.A.) from McMaster University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (FCIA). Daren holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations.

• Chair of the Member Engagement Committee
• Member of the Governance Committee

Kevin Uebelein joined the Alberta Investment Management Corporation as Chief Executive Officer in January 2015. AIMCo is responsible for managing over $100 billion of pension and endowment assets.

Prior to joining AIMCo, Kevin was President and Chief Executive Officer of Pyramis Global Advisors, the institutionally-focused asset management unit of Fidelity Investments, holding assets in excess of USD 200 billion, and was also the Global Head of Investment Solutions at Fidelity Investments. Previously, Kevin held a variety of positions with Prudential Financial Inc., including Head of Alternative Investments, and culminating as Chief Investment Officer for International operations.

Mr. Uebelein holds a Bachelor of Accounting degree from Harding University, and an MBA from Rice University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds the ICD Director designation.

• Chair of the Public Policy Committee

Jeff Wendling is the President & Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Investment Officer of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).

He has 30 years of investment management experience and has been with HOOPP since 1998. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he had served as HOOPP’s Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer since 2018. Before that, he spent more than six years as co-CIO. Jeff began his career at HOOPP as a Senior Portfolio Manager on the Public Equities team.

Jeff is a proven leader of a large and sophisticated management team, and he has spearheaded the fund through a variety of market environments. Jeff was also heavily involved in developing HOOPP’s Liability Driven Investment approach. This approach, coupled with solid investment results, has allowed HOOPP to maintain its strong funded position, keeping plan pricing stable while providing benefit improvements to plan members.

Jeff earned his BA in Economics and his MBA from the University of Toronto and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Jeff is also a board member of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and is the chair of its Public Policy Committee.