Peter Bethlenfalvy is Ontario’s Minister of Finance. He was elected as MPP for Pickering—Uxbridge in 2018 and was re-elected in 2022.

As Minister of Finance, he is responsible for the management of the province’s finances and building the environment for long-term economic prosperity. Minister Bethlenfalvy continues to deliver on the government’s plan to build a Strong Ontario with the supports necessary for people and businesses today, while laying a strong fiscal foundation for future generations. With Premier Ford, he is working to Get It Done and build the housing and critical infrastructure needed for Ontario’s growing population and economy.

Prior to entering public service, Minister Bethlenfalvy served in senior leadership roles for several financial institutions including as President and Chief Operating Officer of TD Securities (USA) and Co-President of DBRS.

He has served on the Board of Directors for many charitable organizations. In 2014, he joined the True Patriot Love Expedition to the magnetic North Pole in support of Canadian military families.

He holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration from McGill University which included a year at the HEC School of Management, Paris, and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

Grant Vingoe is the first dedicated Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). He previously served as both Chair and CEO of the OSC before the roles were separated with the proclamation of the Securities Commission Act, 2021 on April 29, 2022. He is a member of the OSC’s Board of Directors.

Grant is Chair of the Policy Coordination Committee of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), the umbrella organization for securities commissions in Canada, and is a member of the board of directors of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). He is also the Chair of the Joint Regulators Committee responsible for the CSA’s oversight of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments. He also holds leadership positions in Canadian standard-setting bodies and international sustainable finance forums.

Grant is an experienced executive and trusted adviser for regulatory agencies and, during his career as a partner in leading global law firms, for issuers and financial services clients. He has extensive cross-border expertise in securities law and deep knowledge of financial markets.

Grant holds a J.D. from Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School and an LL.M from the New York University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar of Ontario in 1983 and New York in 1985.

Dr. Foteini Agrafioti is the Senior Vice President, Data and AI and Chief Science Officer of RBC. Foteini is responsible for the Data and AI ecosystem at RBC including data services, ML platforms, AI solutions and R&D. Foteini joined RBC in May 2016 as Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder and Head of Borealis AI, which, under her leadership, has contributed to the development of several AI-enabled products including Aiden and NOMI Forecast. She has helped establish RBC as one of the leading voices on AI.

Prior to joining RBC, Foteini founded and served as Chief Technology Officer at Nymi, a biometrics security company and maker of the Nymi wristband. Foteini also serves as Co-Chair of the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, advising the federal government on how to build on Canada’s strengths and global leadership in AI.

Loui Anastasopoulos is CEO, Toronto Stock Exchange and Global Head, Capital Formation, TMX Group.

Mr. Anastasopoulos is responsible for TMX Group’s Capital Formation businesses, including its global listings businesses, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), as well as oversight of the Enterprise Marketing function for TMX Group, responsible for driving proactive, integrated marketing programs across the organization.

Mr. Anastasopoulos’s accountabilities include ensuring that TSX and TSXV operate in accordance with their important public interest mandate and that their policies are continually reviewed and developed to address developments in the global capital markets.

Mr. Anastasopoulos oversees a global business development team with representatives located in Canada, the United States, China, Israel, Brazil, Peru and the United Kingdom.

Additionally, Mr. Anastasopoulos has oversight responsibility for TSX Trust Company, our corporate trust, transfer agency and registrar business, and provides strategic guidance and direction to the company in his capacity as a Director. Previously, he served as CEO of TSX Trust, and under his leadership and vision, helped TSX Trust become the largest Canadian-owned transfer agent, and provider of corporate trust services.

Mr. Anastasopoulos joined TMX Group in 2006 and has served in a number of senior leadership roles in the Capital Formation business, including Vice President, Global Business Development, and Director of Relationship Management and Product Development.

Mr. Anastasopoulos has over 20 years of financial services and capital markets experience. Prior to joining TMX Group, he worked at Scotia Mcleod, National Bank Financial and a Toronto-based financial services start-up. Mr. Anastasopoulos graduated from the University of Toronto.

As Senior Director, Barbara Boucher manages CDPQ’s positioning on derivative products and transactional activities in Capital Markets.

Ms. Boucher has over 20 years of experience in the finance industry. Before joining CDPQ, she was responsible for derivative product operations at National Bank of Canada and its subsidiaries. Previously, she worked as a labour relations lawyer and risk management advisor.

She holds an MBA in Finance and Information Technology from HEC Montréal and a Bachelor of Laws from Université de Montréal. In addition, she holds the Chartered Administrator designation (Adm.A.) from the Ordre des administrateurs agréés du Québec and is certified in civil, commercial and labour mediation. She is a member of the Barreau du Québec.

Ms. Boucher represents CDPQ on the Canadian Market Infrastructure Committee (CMIC). She sits on the Autorité des marchés financiers’ Derivatives Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of the Club de recherche d’emploi Montréal Centre-Nord.

Leslie Byberg is the Executive Vice President, Strategic Regulation of the Ontario Securities Commission.

Since 2003, Ms. Byberg has held several executive positions at the OSC, most recently serving Executive Director from 2019 to 2024, following her role as Executive Director and CAO from 2016 to 2019, during which she was responsible for overseeing all the OSC’s regulatory and corporate operations. Prior to that, she was the Director of the OSC’s Strategy and Operations Branch, overseeing the OSC’s business planning, policy prioritization and risk management processes. In this role, Ms. Byberg led the development of the OSC’s Strategic Outlook for 2015-2017, oversaw the first comprehensive review of the Canadian fixed income market and led the OSC’s mystery shop research into the retail investment advice process. Ms. Byberg also served as the Director of Corporate Finance and Director of Investment Funds.

Prior to joining the OSC, Ms. Byberg was Senior Counsel, Regulation at the Investment Funds Institute of Canada. Ms. Byberg also worked as an associate lawyer at two Toronto law firms with a practice specializing in investment funds.

Brigitte obtained her BCL/LLB degrees from McGill University (National Program) and was admitted to the Quebec Bar. She also obtained the designation of Certified In-House Counsel – Canada and is a Fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute.

She began her legal career at Norton Rose Fulbright where she was named Partner in Business Law. She developed deep expertise in securities laws and corporate transactions. Brigitte has 25 years of experience in regulated industries, including transportation and media, where she held senior and executive roles. She was Associate General Counsel and Associate Secretary of Canadian National Railway Company and Vice-President, Legal and Corporate Secretary of Astral Media Inc.

Brigitte has also developed deep expertise in corporate governance and the regulation of financial services as Corporate Secretary and Head of Governance of HSBC Bank Canada, Vice-President, Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Sun Life Financial, Vice-President, Corporate Governance and Compliance of Meridian Credit Union and Corporate Secretary of Motus Bank, and in her current role as Chief Governance Officer of the Cooperators Group.

In January 2019, Brigitte joined York University as Adjunct Professor of Osgoode Hall Law School. She is Associate Director of the Investor Protection Clinic and teaches Compliance in the Financial Services Sector and the Regulation of Financial Institutions as part of the Financial Law LLM program.

Brigitte is a Subject Matter Expert in Boardroom Dynamics for the Chartered Governance Institute’s certification program.

Brigitte is a member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Panel and of the Canadian Securities Administrators’ Investor Advisory Panel.

Brigitte was a member of the Board of Directors of Governance Professionals of Canada for 6 years. She was the recipient of the Governance Professional of the Year award in 2022.

Kevin Fine is Senior Vice-President, Thought Leadership at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). Kevin was the Director of the Derivatives Branch at the OSC from 2011 to 2024. As part of his duties at the OSC he participated in a variety of national and international committees working on introduction and oversight of regulation of the OTC derivatives markets. He was the long-time co-chair of the CSA Derivatives Committee. Kevin is also the current chair of the IOSCO Standing Committee on Derivatives, past chair of the international Over the Counter Derivatives Regulators Forum (the “ODRF”), one of the past co-chairs of the IOSCO Task Force on OTC Derivatives and has led several international workstreams relating to OTC derivatives regulation. 

Kevin is also an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Mr. Fine was previously Associate General Counsel and Managing Director, Retail Investor Solutions Group and Securitization, for Bank of Montreal Financial Group of Companies ("BMOFG") and had almost 20 years experience working in OTC derivatives and Capital Markets matters for BMOFG. 

Bruce Flatt is Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield, a leading global alternative asset manager with over $850 billion in assets under management.

Mr. Flatt joined Brookfield in 1990 and became CEO in 2002. Under his leadership, Brookfield has developed a global operating presence in more than 30 countries.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Flatt ran Brookfield’s real estate and investment operations and has served on numerous public company boards over the past two decades.

Gurbir S. Grewal is the Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. Immediately before joining the Commission, Gurbir was the Attorney General for the State of New Jersey. Prior to that, he served as the Bergen County Prosecutor, the chief law enforcement officer for New Jersey’s most populous county. Earlier in his career, Gurbir served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, where he was Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit, and an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where he was assigned to the Business and Securities Fraud Unit. He was also an attorney in private practice. He holds a J.D. from the College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, and a B.S. in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Renee Jones is a Professor of Law and Dr. Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law School. Her scholarship focuses on securities regulation, corporate governance and the federal-state relationship in corporate regulation. Her courses include Corporations, Securities Regulation, Startup Company Governance, and Financial Regulation. From 2018 to 2021, Professor Jones served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the law school.

From 2021 to 2023, Professor Jones served as the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As Division Director, Professor Jones led a team of more than 400 lawyers, accountants and analysts charged with interpreting, implementing and ensuring compliance with the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and related statutory provisions. In this role, she oversaw the implementation of the Commission's ambitious rulemaking agenda, including the drafting of proposed and final rules covering such topics as the disclosure of climate-related risks, cybersecurity risks, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), insider trading, executive compensation, and shareholder voting. She also oversaw the Division’s Disclosure Review Program to ensure corporate compliance with SEC disclosure requirements, handling issues ranging from disclosure by China-based issuers, climate-related risks, risks related to crypto asset businesses, and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on corporate issuers. 

Naizam Kanji is General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal at the Ontario Securities Commission.

Naizam has been with the Ontario Securities Commission since 2000 and previously held the positions of Director of the Mergers and Acquisitions Branch and Deputy Director of the Corporate Finance Branch, with primary responsible for mergers and acquisitions regulation.  He has led work on numerous policy initiatives, including the harmonization of the Canadian take-over bid regime, amendments to the take-over bid regime mandating majority shareholder approval of take-over bids and providing target boards with more time to respond to unsolicited bids, reviews of the proxy plumbing system and role of proxy advisors, staff guidance on board process and disclosure in conflicted M&A transactions, and reforms to the regulatory framework for asset-backed commercial paper.  Naizam has also led regulatory and litigation teams representing staff in M&A administrative proceedings relating to target board defensive responses to unsolicited bids, material conflict of interest transactions and appeals of Exchange decisions impacting corporate control.  

Naizam served as Special Advisor to the Chair on Regulatory Burden Reduction with responsibility for leading the team consulting on regulatory burden in Ontario’s capital markets and the issuance of its report in November 2019 - Reducing Regulatory Burden in Ontario’s Capital Markets. Naizam was a member of the Expert Advisory Group and the OSC liaison to the Ontario government’s Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce (CMMT) that was appointed in February 2020 and issued its final recommendations in January 2021.  He was part of the leadership team that implemented the governance changes recommended by the CMMT, including the separation of the regulatory and adjudicative functions of the OSC and separating the roles of the Board Chair and CEO.

Naizam has been a frequent speaker on securities regulation, including mergers and acquisitions, at conferences and law schools in Canada and the United States. He has also written papers on regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions law. Naizam is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University where he co-teaches courses in securities litigation and securities law.     

Prior to joining the OSC, Naizam clerked with the Commercial List, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and was an associate in the insolvency and restructuring group at a leading Canadian law firm.

Naizam has a LL.B and a LL.M from Osgoode Hall Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Ontario in 1998. 

Tom C.W. Lin is the Jack E. Feinberg Chair Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, and author of the award-winning book, The Capitalist and the Activist, which was named one of the best business books as well as one of the best social justice books of the year in 2023.  His research and teaching focus are in the areas of corporate governance, securities law, and financial technology. His scholarship has been published by numerous leading law journals, and his expertise has been featured in major media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Fortune, CNN, and The Financial Times.

Dr. Vivienne Ming explores maximizing human capacity as a theoretical neuroscientist, delusional inventor, and demented author. Over her career she’s founded 6 startups, been chief scientist at 2 others, and launched the “mad science incubator”, Socos Labs, where she explores seemingly intractable problems—from a lone child’s disability to global economic inclusion—for free. As the co-founder and Chief Scientist of Dionysus Health she applies machine learning to lessen the corrosive health effects of chronic stress in communities. She also develops tools for learning at home and in school and TBI, models of bias in hiring and promotion, and neurotechnologies to treat dementia, an outgrowth of her research at UC Berkeley's Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. In her free time, Vivienne designs AI systems to treat her son’s diabetes, predict manic episodes in bipolar sufferers, and reunite orphan refugees with extended family members. For relaxation, she writes science fiction and spends time with her wife and children. Vivienne was named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2017. She is featured frequently for her research and inventions in The Financial Times, The Atlantic, Quartz Magazine and the New York Times.

Tim Mullaly commenced his career in private practice as a CPA for a number of accountancy firms. This led to roles in financial investigation work, firstly relating to personal insolvency followed by corporate investigations. Tim has been at the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) for over 25 years, undertaking and leading complex investigations with a focus on financial services. He has had responsibility for many of the highest profile investigations and litigations undertaken by ASIC, particularly following the Global Financial Crisis. As the Executive Director of ASIC’s Enforcement and Compliance team, Tim oversees the leadership, management and strategic direction of ASIC’s enforcement and compliance response to misconduct. The work undertaken by his teams includes the early assessment of matters for investigation or compliance outcomes; the investigation of suspected breaches of the law and subsequent enforcement action; and the forensic support for the enforcement teams. Tim holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy).

Sonny Randhawa is the Executive Vice President Regulatory Operations of the Ontario Securities Commission.

Since 2009, Mr. Randhawa has held progressively senior positions at the OSC, most recently serving as Executive Director, responsible for the oversight and leadership of several regulatory and advisory operational teams. Prior to that, Mr. Randhawa was the Director of Corporate Finance overseeing the regulation of issuers in the public and private markets. In this role, he led work on numerous policy initiatives, including the short form prospectus framework and multiple actions to reduce regulatory burden affecting companies in Ontario’s capital markets.

Prior to joining the OSC, Sonny was a Senior Manager at a multi-national accounting and advisory firm. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois).

As Senior Vice-President, Enforcement and Registration, Elsa Renzella oversees several departments, which all play a critical role in CIRO’s investor protection mandate.

The Registration department ensures that individuals approved by CIRO satisfy certain suitability requirements including minimum proficiency and integrity standards. CIRO’s Enforcement department ensures Approved Persons and dealers who employ them are appropriately disciplined when there is a violation of Investment Dealer, Universal Market Integrity and/or Mutual fund Dealer Rules. Elsa also oversees the Complaints and Inquiries team, the primary contact for investor inquiries and complaints and works closely with Enforcement in identifying potential regulatory misconduct.

Elsa joined one of the predecessor organizations, the Investment Dealers Association, in 2002 as Enforcement Counsel and later assumed various management roles including Director, Enforcement Litigation and Vice-President, Enforcement.

Elsa has extensive litigation experience, including work in private practice with a criminal defence law firm before starting her career in regulation. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from York University and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Winnie Sanjoto has been with the Commission in progressively senior roles for more than 20 years. After joining the OSC from private law practice as legal counsel, she worked as Senior Legal Counsel and then Manager in the Corporate Finance Branch. Most recently, Winnie worked as Special Advisor, Emerging Regulation to the Executive Director supporting the OSC’s regulatory efforts relating to the emerging crypto assets sector, among other issues.

Winnie has been engaged in numerous operational and transactional matters over the course of her OSC career encompassing all aspects of the Branch’s core regulatory activities. She has played a strategic lead role on numerous OSC-wide, multi-branch initiatives such as the OSC’s burden reduction initiative. She has also led various policy initiatives that involved working closely with external stakeholders, other Canadian and international regulators, and the Ministry of Finance.

Winnie is also Chair of the OSC’s Inclusion and Diversity Council.

Mario is Managing Partner of Risk Consulting in Canada, Global FS Risk Technology Lead and Co-Lead of EY's Global Responsible AI Team.

In addition Mario is the Co-Product Owner for EY’s Global Model/AIOps Platform and Product Owner of EY.ai Confidence Index and contributes to several global regulatory AI initiatives on Fairness, Explainability, Reliability, Security and Safety.

Mario leads EY’s AI applied research lab with a focus on threat-intelligence and anticipate impact from disruptive-tech by working with leading research institutions (e.g. MiT, UofT, Microsoft Research, Vector.ai, Queens University), startups and hyperscalers on the cutting-edge of technology research including development of risk assessment methods to identify technology black swans. His personal focus is currently on misinformation and disinformation (incl deep fakes), Next GenAI – Reasoning and Intuition, Causal AI, Chaos Theory and Quantum Risk.

He brings over 25 years of experience in risk and capital markets leading risk transformation programs for GSIBs, implementing front/back office pricing platform modernizations (inhouse build and vendor), developing/validating qualitative and quantitative risk- (incl. credit, market, CCR, ALM and OpRisk), rating- (AIRB, EC, IFRS9) and capital markets- (incl. XVA,VAR) models for many GSIBs. Before he moved into risk advisory business Mario worked for 10 years for one of the largest banks in Europe/CEE as corporate banker and as part of the fixed income trading, fixed income analytics and CLO structuring department. 

Cameron Schuler is the Chief Commercialization Officer & Vice President, Industry Innovation at the Vector Institute. He is the former Executive Director of Amii, where, for 8 years, he led one of the top-ranked Machine Learning and AI groups in the world. Cameron’s multifaceted career has covered finance, business & product development, consumer products, IT and general management from start-ups to mature companies. His industry experience includes Alternative Energy, Banking, Consumer Products, Information Technology (Consumer and Enterprise), Investment Sales and Trading, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Medical Devices, Oil & Gas, and Oil & Gas Services. Roles have included COO, CFO, President and CEO and he was COO & CFO of a food manufacturer whose products lead to sales of over 250 million units.

He has founded numerous start-up companies (including medical devices as well as computer software & hardware). Cameron is Chair & Co-founder of PFM Scheduling Services, was Managing Director & Co-Founder of Schuler Law Group, a boutique tax planning law firm and spent 8 years in investment sales & trading. He attained an MBA from Queen’s University and completed numerous investment management programs.

Erik Thedéen is Governor of Sveriges Riksbank and Chairman of the Executive Board since 1 January 2023.

Governor Thedéen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and from June 11, Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). Mr. Thedéen is also a member of the General Council of the ECB and a member of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Mr. Thedéen is also Governor for Sweden in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Board Member of the Nordic-Baltic Macroprudential Forum (NBMF) and Board Member of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial Supervision.

Between October 2015 and November 2022 Mr. Thedéen was Director General of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). Mr. Thedéen has also previously been Board Member of International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and Chair of its Task Force on Sustainable Finance, Vice chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and Co-chair of the Nordic-Baltic Macro Prudential Forum.

Erik Thedéen has also been CEO of KPA Pension, State Secretary at the Swedish Ministry of Finance, President of the Stockholm Stock Exchange (Nasdaq Stockholm), a strategist at the hedge fund Brummer & Partners, Deputy Director General of the Swedish National Debt Office, a strategist at the money market firm JP Bank, and an analyst at Sveriges Riksbank.

Erik Thedéen holds a Degree of Master of Science in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Sasha Tregebov is the Director of BIT Canada, the Canadian branch of the Behavioural Insights Team. Over the last decade, Sasha and his colleagues have worked extensively with the Ontario Securities Commission and other organizations dedicated to consumer financial protection to enhance the design of policy, program, and communications interventions through behavioural science. From analyzing the impact of investment platform gamification to fee disclosure design, his team's work has been influential in the Canadian securities landscape and beyond.