Mr. Desmarais was appointed Senior Vice-President of Power Corporation and Power Financial in January 2017. He acts as Executive Chairman of Sagard Holdings and Portag3 Ventures, Chairman of Peak Achievement Athletics and of Wealthsimple, and Vice-Chairman of Imerys. He is also a director of Great-West Life, Investors Group, Mackenzie, Pargesa, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, IntegraMed, Personal Capital and Koho Financial.

Before joining Power as Vice-President in May 2014, he was Assistant Vice-President in the Risk Management Group of Great-West Lifeco beginning in 2012. Previously, he worked in project management and corporate strategy at Imerys in France. He began his career in 2004, working for five years with Goldman Sachs in the United States, in the Investment Banking and Investment Strategy Groups, as well as in the Special Situations Group.

Mr. Desmarais is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of Young Canadians in Finance. He also sits on the Board of Directors of The Next 36, an organization that fast tracks the development of Canada’s most talented young innovators, turning them into the country’s outstanding future business leaders and innovators.

Mr. Desmarais is the recipient of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard College (graduating cum laude) and he holds a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD in France.

Maureen Jensen is the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), which administers and enforces securities law in the capital markets of the province of Ontario.

Prior to her appointment as Chair and CEO, Ms. Jensen was the Executive Director and Chief Administrative Officer of the OSC. Before joining the OSC, Ms. Jensen was Senior Vice-President, Surveillance and Compliance at the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), the national self-regulatory organization that oversees all investment dealers and trading activity on debt and equity marketplaces in Canada.

Prior to the formation of IIROC in 2008, Ms. Jensen was President and CEO of Market Regulation Services Inc., the independent national market regulation services provider for Canadian equity markets.

Ms. Jensen has also held senior regulatory and business positions at the Toronto Stock Exchange and had a 20-year career in the mining industry, holding both executive and technical management positions with several resource companies. Ms. Jensen is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision. She is also a Trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Ms. Jensen is a Registered Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo) and holds the ICD.D designation.

Jay Clayton was nominated to chair the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on January 20, 2017 by President Donald Trump and sworn in on May 4, 2017.

Since joining the Commission, Chairman Clayton has focused on the long-term interests of America’s retail investors, a perspective he shares with the SEC staff. Chairman Clayton has made it a priority to increase the access of retail investors to a diverse range of investment opportunities and see that they continue to benefit from the protections of our securities laws.

Key areas of focus for Chairman Clayton include:

• making our capital markets more accessible to businesses and investors alike, while ensuring the United States continues to be the world’s leader in terms of effective disclosure and other investor protections; and
• examining and addressing equity and fixed income market structure issues with an emphasis on fairness, efficiency and resiliency, recognizing that our markets are ever-changing.

Chairman Clayton also has been outspoken on securities law issues related to distributed ledger technology, cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings.

Prior to joining the Commission, Chairman Clayton was a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he was a member of the firm’s Management Committee and co-head of the firm’s corporate practice.

Chairman Clayton has authored publications on securities law, cybersecurity, and other regulatory issues, and from 2009 to 2017 he was a Lecturer in Law and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to joining Sullivan & Cromwell, Chairman Clayton served as a law clerk for the Honorable Marvin Katz of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. A member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars, Chairman Clayton earned a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude), a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (Thouron Scholar), and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (cum laude, Order of the Coif).

Chairman Clayton was born at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Virginia and was raised primarily in central and southeastern Pennsylvania. In his professional career, he has lived in Philadelphia, New York, London, and Washington, D.C.

J. Christopher “Chris” Giancarlo was unanimously confirmed as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission by the U.S. Senate on August 3, 2017. Prior to becoming Chairman, Mr. Giancarlo was designated Acting Chairman on January 20, 2017 and was nominated by President Trump to serve as the Chairman on March 14, 2017 to a term that expires in April 2019. Mr. Giancarlo had served as a CFTC Commissioner since his swearing in on June 16, 2014, after a unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate on June 3, 2014. He was nominated by President Obama on August 1, 2013.

Before entering public service, Mr. Giancarlo served as the Executive Vice President of GFI Group Inc., a financial services firm. Prior to joining GFI, Mr. Giancarlo was Executive Vice President and U.S. Legal Counsel of Fenics Software and was a corporate partner in the New York law firm of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner. Mr. Giancarlo joined Brown Raysman from Giancarlo & Gleiberman, a law practice founded by Mr. Giancarlo in 1992 following his return from several years in London with the international law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle.

Mr. Giancarlo was also a founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of eSecurities, Trading and Regulation on the Internet (Leader Publications). In addition, Mr. Giancarlo has testified three times before Congress regarding the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act, and has written and spoken extensively on public policy, legal and other matters involving technology and the financial markets.

Mr. Giancarlo was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Government Department Honors. Mr. Giancarlo received his law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law where he was an associate research editor at the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and President of the Law School’s International Law Society. Mr. Giancarlo has been a member of the Bar of the State of New York since 1985.

Jennifer Elliott is Deputy Division Chief of Financial Regulation and Supervision at the International Monetary Fund. In her current role she is engaged in setting the IMF’s policy in financial sector issues including through the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP), most recently in the Euro Area. She is also a contributor to the Global Financial Stability Report.

Jennifer joined the IMF in 2001 from the Ontario Securities Commission and was previously employed at the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and at the Toronto Stock Exchange. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in Canada and a law degree from the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Richard Nesbitt is CEO of Global Risk Institute in Financial Services, which is building a globally recognized research organization in the management of emerging risks.

Richard is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, an Adjunct Professor of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Mind Brain Behavior Hive at the same university.

In 2017, Richard published a book (with Barbara Annis) titled “Results at the Top” on the issue of men’s responsibility for gender diversity to improve their organizations (Wiley 2017).

Richard, who serves on a variety of corporate and community boards, was recognized in 2014 by the organization Women in Capital Markets with its Visionary Award. He also received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for community service and the Arbor Award from the University of Toronto for his work with the school.

Richard was Chief Operating Officer of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce until he retired from that position in September 2014. He joined CIBC in 2008 following his more than 20 years of experience in the securities industry which included CIBC Wood Gundy from 1987 to 1997.

From 2004 to 2008 Richard was Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange, having joined TSX as President of TSX Markets in 2001.

Barbara G. Novick, Vice Chairman, is a member of BlackRock's Global Executive Committee, Corporate Risk Committee and Global Operating Committee. From the inception of the firm in 1988 to 2008, Ms. Novick headed the Global Client Group and oversaw global business development, marketing and client service across equity, fixed income, liquidity, alternative investment and real estate products for institutional and individual investors and their intermediaries worldwide. In her current role, Ms. Novick oversees the firm's efforts globally for public policy and for investment stewardship. In addition, she is a member of the Executive Committee of the Investment Company Institute.

Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Ms. Novick was a Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation. Ms. Novick joined First Boston in 1985 where she became head of the Portfolio Products Team. From 1982 to 1985, Ms. Novick was with Morgan Stanley.

William (Bill) White is currently a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. Previously, from 2009 until March 2018, he was the Chair of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECD in Paris.

Prior to that, he served 14 years as the Economic Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel. In that role he was responsible for all BIS research, data collection, and the organization of meetings for central bankers from around the world. Prior to joining the BIS, he was the Deputy Governor responsible for international affairs at the Bank of Canada.

In addition to publishing widely, Mr. White’s other activities have included membership of the Issuing Committee, advising Chancellor Merkel on G20 issues.

In addition to earlier prizes, Mr. White was, in 2016, the recipient of the Adam Smith Award, the highest award of the National Association of Business Economists in Washington.

Robert Cohen was named Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Cyber Unit in September 2017. The Cyber Unit investigates cyber-related securities law violations, including: initial coin offerings and other cryptocurrency-related conduct; hacking to obtain nonpublic information; brokerage account takeovers; market manipulations using social media and other electronic platforms; cybersecurity controls at regulated entities; and cybersecurity-related disclosures by public issuers.

Before becoming Chief of the Cyber Unit, Mr. Cohen was Co-Chief of the SEC’s Market Abuse Unit from 2015 to 2017. Prior to joining the Commission in 2004, Mr. Cohen was in private practice in New York and Maryland, and served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Mr. Cohen received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where he served on the Law Review, and received a B.S. from Cornell University.

Jeff Kehoe is Director of Enforcement at the Ontario Securities Commission. Prior to joining the OSC, he was Managing Partner and General Counsel at Difference Capital Inc. He has more than a decade of experience overseeing the Canadian capital markets as Director and Vice-President of Enforcement at the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). Prior to IIROC, he served as a Crown Attorney and Department of Justice Crown Counsel.

Mr. Kehoe has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Windsor, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Detroit Mercy, a Master of Laws degree specializing in securities law from Osgoode Hall Law School, a Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional certificate from Wharton University of Pennsylvania, has completed the Rotman Institute of Corporate Directors Program and has received securities regulation training from Harvard. He currently serves on both private and public boards including charitable non-profit organizations.

Mark Steward is Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority. He has been involved in corporate, financial services and securities regulation since 1987 in Australia, Hong Kong and in the UK, specialising in investigatory work and resulting litigation.

Mark joined the FCA from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, where he was a member of the board for 9 years and Executive Director of Enforcement. Before joining the SFC, Mark was Deputy Executive Director, Enforcement with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Gillian Tan is the Executive Director of the Enforcement Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The department is responsible for investigating and enforcing serious conduct-related breaches under the laws administered by MAS, which include the Financial Advisers Act, the Banking Act and the Insurance Act. It also enforces anti-money laundering regulations that govern all financial institutions and has responsibility for the surveillance and investigation of market misconduct offences under Part XII of the Securities and Futures Act.

Gillian previously worked in the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk to the Chief Justice and a number of other Court of Appeal and High Court Judges. She then served as an Assistant Registrar and Magistrate in the Supreme Court. She was subsequently appointed as a District Judge and Deputy Registrar of the State Courts of Singapore, hearing both civil and criminal cases.

Gillian also served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and Deputy Senior State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) for a number of years, and was a Director of the Financial and Securities Offences Directorate of the Financial and Technology Crimes Division of AGC before she joined the MAS in 2015.

A President’s Scholar, Gillian graduated from Cambridge University with a Double First Class Honours in law. She also holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. In recognition of her contributions to public service, she was awarded the Public Administration (Silver) Medal in 2018.

Jeffrey R. Carney, CFA, is President and Chief Executive Officer of IG Wealth Management, and President and Chief Executive Officer of IGM Financial Inc., positions he has held since May 2016. He previously served for three years as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mackenzie Financial Corporation and Co-President and Chief Executive Officer of IGM Financial Inc.

Mr. Carney is a native of Red Deer, Alberta, and also spent his formative years in Edmonton and Regina. He has more than 25 years of experience at investment management firms and banks across both retail and institutional platforms in Canada and the US. He has held senior executive positions at some of the most prominent financial organizations in North America.

Mr. Carney is a graduate of the Bachelor of Commerce program at Queen’s University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

He serves on the board of the Landmark School in the metropolitan Boston area, and the advisory board of Queen’s School of Business. Mr. Carney is also a Director of Personal Capital Corporation, Portag3 Ventures GP Inc., and volunteers as a Director for Capitalize for Kids. He has also served on the corporate boards of The New England Council, Employee Benefit Research Institute and Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association.

Bruce Flatt is the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. Bruce was appointed to this position in February 2002, following a number of roles in Brookfield's investment and operating businesses since 1990.

Bruce has overseen the expansion of the company’s franchise into one of the largest global managers of real assets in 30 countries and over 80,000 employees. The company has approximately $285 billion of assets in real estate, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity.

Bruce is a Canadian by background, is a director of Brookfield and a number of its affiliates.

Katherine “KT” Rabin joined Glass Lewis shortly after the firm was founded in 2003 and was part of the original management team. She was appointed CEO in 2007.

Before joining Glass Lewis, KT was VP of Communications at supply chain management company QRS Corporation, where she helped create the company’s IR program. Previously, KT was Director of Research at OTR Global, an independent investment research firm. From 1992 to 1997, she was business editor at the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner.

KT currently serves on the board of Diversified Health Services, a private healthcare services company that operates assisted living and nursing care facilities and was formerly on the board of Index, a retail software company funded by General Catalyst, Innovation Endeavors and Khosla Ventures.

Sandra Stuart was appointed President and CEO for HSBC Bank Canada in 2015. She is also on the board of HSBC Bank Canada and is the Chair of the Board for HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada) Limited.  Prior to her appointment as President and CEO, she was Chief Operating Officer of the bank for 5 years. Sandra joined HSBC in 1982 and has held a number of roles in Canada and abroad including in the United States and Brazil. 

Sandra is active in the community as a member of the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business Faculty Advisory Board, the Business Council of Canada and the Business Council of British Columbia. She has been recognized by the Association of Women in Finance for Excellence in the Private Sector, received the Women’s Executive Network Deloitte Inclusion Vanguard Award (2016), was named one of WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada (2014) and British Columbia’s Most Influential Women by BC Business Magazine (2015).

Sandra has a BA with a double minor in Economics and Business from Simon Fraser University and has completed a number of Executive Management courses at the Harvard Business School, IMD, and UBC.

Paul Redman is the Chief Economist and Head of Research at the Ontario Securities Commission. Paul leads a team of economists, research analysts and policy professionals with responsibility for providing the Commission and its staff with expert analysis of the economic implications of regulatory policy and financial market developments. Areas of focus in this work include:

• developments in market structure and their associated regulatory implications
• analysis of economic and market conditions and identification of the regulatory/investor protection implications
• regulatory impact analysis
• the regulatory and policy implications of behavioural economics
• analysis of potential sources of financial market instability and vulnerabilities

Paul represents the OSC on a number of national and international regulatory committees and is currently the Chair of IOSCO’s Committee on Emerging Risk (CER). The IOSCO CER provides a platform for securities market regulatory experts and economists to discuss emerging risks and market developments. Projects undertaken by the CER equip regulators with the appropriate tools, data and information needed to identify, monitor and mitigate systemic and emerging risks in their jurisdictions.

He has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. In addition to his experience in regulation/policy he held roles at a major investment dealer, a global financial information provider and one of Canada’s largest insurance companies.

Paul has Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in economics from the University of Guelph.

Jacquie McNish is a Toronto-based Senior Correspondent with The Wall Street Journal. She is the winner of 9 National Newspaper Awards and 3 National Business Book Awards.

Her latest book, Losing The Signal, about the rise and fall of BlackBerry, was an international best seller. She is an adjunct professor with Osgoode Hall Law School.

Catherine Murray joined BNN Bloomberg in August 2011 and is now the host of BNN Bloomberg's The Close.

Before joining BNN Bloomberg, Murray worked on Wall Street for more than 15 years at Goldman Sachs in Institutional Equity Sales and Trading, and Vice-President of Institutional Sales and Trading at Deutsche Bank. Prior to moving into sales, she was an Associate Research Analyst at William Blair covering retail and e-commerce companies. In 2009, she co-founded North South Capital, a women-owned institutional investment firm, where she built the research and sales and trading business.

Murray graduated from The University of Western Ontario with a degree in Politics. In addition, she trained as a competitive figure skater and is a certified downhill ski instructor.

Huston Loke is Director of Corporate Finance at the Ontario Securities Commission. The branch regulates corporate issuers and leads issuer-related policy initiatives. The branch also monitors compliance through ongoing reviews and establishes the regulatory framework for securities offerings in the public and exempt markets. Policy development and supervision activities for insider reporting and credit rating agencies are also covered by the branch.

Huston serves as a member of one of the Workstreams of the Financial Stability Board, the international body that monitors and makes recommendations regarding the global financial system.

Prior to joining the OSC, Huston was an Advisor to the Chief Risk Officer of a major financial institution. Before taking on that role, Huston was President of a credit rating agency.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts and Science and a Master of Business Administration (Accounting and Finance), and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.