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.

Kevan Cowan is a financial services executive with more than 30 years of experience in capital markets operational, regulatory and policy matters. He has been a key participant in the transformative changes occurring in Canadian capital markets over that time.

Mr. Cowan is the past Chief Executive Officer of the Capital Markets Authority Implementation Organization, where he worked on behalf of nine Canadian governments leading the development of a pan-Canadian securities regulatory authority. Prior to that, Mr. Cowan was President of TSX Markets, responsible for the equities business of the TMX Group, including the Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, Alpha Trading, TMX Select and related services. He is also a past President of the TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Cowan was previously a partner in a large Canadian law firm, practicing corporate and securities law.

Mr. Cowan has served on many boards and in advisory roles, including with the Toronto Financial Services Alliance / Toronto Finance International (Chair of the Board), the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (Board member), the Ontario Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce Expert Advisory Group, the Calgary Economic Development Investment Advisory Committee, and the Ontario Securities Commission Small Business Advisory Committee.

Mr. Cowan holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School, and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Josée Turcotte is the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission. In this role, she is responsible for the oversight and leadership of the OSC operations, including human resource management, information technology and security, digital solutions, enterprise-wide project management, as well as strategic and business planning, and execution. As Chief of Staff, she also serves as the custodian of the OSC’s business and policy agenda in order for the OSC to deliver on its mandate, and provides strategic advice to the Chief Executive Officer.

Ms. Turcotte is a highly experienced business executive, with extensive governmental and private sector experience. Her previous service includes increasingly senior roles at the OSC, with her last role as Secretary to the Commission. She was also Secretary and Head of Governance of HSBC Bank Canada, Chief Legal Officer of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario , and most recently the Executive Director, Emerging Risks Directorate of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), where she managed all non-financial risks and the development of OSFI’s regulatory response, including climate, digital innovation, technology and cyber security, operational third-party risk, culture and compliance , and integrity, security and foreign interference.

Ms. Turcotte holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in business law from Osgoode Hall Law School, a Civil Law degree with honours (LL.L.), a Juris Doctor degree with honours (J.D.) from the University of Ottawa and an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. Ms. Turcotte is a member in good standing of both the Ontario and Quebec bars.

Matthew Boswell was appointed Commissioner of Competition on March 5, 2019, for a five-year term. He was reappointed for a two-year term, effective February 27, 2024.

Mr. Boswell first joined the Bureau in January 2011 as Associate Deputy Commissioner, Criminal Matters. In 2012, he became Senior Deputy Commissioner, Cartels and Deceptive Marketing Practices. In July 2017, he began a one-year assignment as Senior Deputy Commissioner, Mergers and Monopolistic Practices.

As a Senior Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Boswell led numerous merger reviews and directed major investigations targeting criminal cartels, abuse of dominance and deceptive marketing practices.

Before joining the Bureau, Mr. Boswell was Senior Litigation Counsel in the Enforcement Branch at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), where he primarily prosecuted securities fraud and related matters.

Prior to his work at the OSC, Mr. Boswell was an Assistant Crown Attorney in Toronto with the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario. As a Crown Attorney, he prosecuted all types of criminal offences.

Mr. Boswell has also worked in private practice and began his legal career at a Toronto law firm.

Sinead Bovell is a strategic foresight advisor and the founder of WAYE, a tech education company dedicated to equipping youth with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in a future shaped by advanced technologies, with a special focus on non-traditional and minority markets. To date, she has educated over 200,000 young entrepreneurs on the future of technology.

Sinead advises senior executives and leadership teams across governments, global enterprises, and startups on strategic foresight and emerging technologies. She is an 11-time United Nations speaker, having delivered formal addresses to presidents, royalty, and Fortune 500 leaders on topics ranging from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence. She currently serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations AI Advisory Body, focusing on the future of work and the long-term horizon of AI. 

Sinead is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and a regular tech commentator for platforms such as CNN, NBC, and CTV, where she discusses the societal impact of emerging technologies. 

Before founding WAYE, Sinead earned her MBA from the University of Toronto and worked as a management consultant for A.T. Kearne.

Raymond Chan is the Senior Vice President of the Investment Management Division of the Ontario Securities Commission. Raymond served as the Director, Investment Funds, for 5 years from 2019. He joined the OSC in 2001, after completing his CPA with a national audit firm.

Raymond chairs the OSC Investment Funds Technical Advisory Committee. He also chairs the CSA Investment Funds Steering Committee co-ordinating policy development nationally. He is a member of the Committee on Investment Management of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

Raymond is a CPA and a CFA charterholder. He graduated with a master’s degree in Accounting and a honours bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

Dan Daviau was appointed Chairman of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. on August 9, 2024 and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since October 1, 2015.

Mr. Daviau also serves as Chairman of Canaccord Genuity Corp (Canada), served as Chief Executive Officer of Canaccord Genuity Corp. (Canada) from October 2015 to June 2023, and President of Canaccord Genuity’s North American capital markets business from February 2015. From 2012 to 2015, he was President of the firm’s US Capital Markets business, where he helped to structure the firm’s investment banking, research, sales, and trading operations in the region and improve cross-border capabilities. From 2010 to 2012, he was Head of Investment Banking for Canaccord Genuity. Before the Canaccord/Genuity merger that was announced in 2010, Mr. Daviau was a Principal and Founder of Genuity Capital Markets, where he held a variety of senior roles since 2005.

Before 2005, Mr. Daviau was Co-Head of Investment Banking at CIBC World Markets, a firm he joined in 1991. While at CIBC World Markets, he also served as the Head of the Media and Telecommunications Group since 2000 and Head of the Technology Investment Banking Group in Canada since 1997.

Having started his career as a securities lawyer with Goodman & Co., Mr. Daviau has extensive experience in a broad range of financing transactions and M&A assignments.

Mr. Daviau is based in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MBA from York University, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall/York University, and a B.A. (Math and Statistics) from the University of Western Ontario.

Susan Greenglass is the Senior Vice President of the Trading and Markets Division at the Ontario Securities Commission. Prior to taking on this expanded role, Susan held several progressively senior roles at the OSC, most recently as Director of the Market Regulation Branch. Susan had been in the Market Regulation Branch since it was created in 1998, playing key roles in the development of policy and oversight initiatives relating to market structure, clearing and settlement and SROs.

Susan is the Chair of the OSC’s Market Structure Advisory Committee and the CSA’s Market Regulation Steering Committee.

Prior to joining the OSC in 1997, Susan was a law clerk at the Ontario Court of Justice. She is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member of the Ontario Bar.

Michael Jantzi was appointed as a member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in June 2022, effective July 16, 2022. He currently serves on a part-time basis.

He has 30 years’ experience in responsible investment and sustainable finance. He joined the ISSB from Morningstar, where he served as Managing Director of ESG Strategy. He is the founder and former CEO of Sustainalytics, an ESG research and ratings firm that grew to global market prominence under Michael’s leadership and was subsequently acquired by Morningstar in 2020.

In 1992, he founded Jantzi Research and led a multiple-company merger that formed Sustainalytics in 2009.

He has served on the Board of Directors of the Value Reporting Foundation and of the Principles for Responsible Investment. He has also served as a committee member of the Independent Review Committee on Standard Setting in Canada and as a board director of the MakeWay Foundation.

Mr Jantzi holds a Master of international relations from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Jeffrey Jones is a veteran journalist who has reported on many topics from numerous locales over three decades. He joined The Globe and Mail in 2013, covering such business topics as mergers & acquisitions, private equity and energy. In his current role he writes on a wide range of sustainability issues, including climate finance, corporate net-zero and ESG programs, cleantech financing and renewable energy.

Naizam Kanji is General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal and Governance 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 Chair of the Board 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.

Tim Kiladze is a financial reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail, writing news, profiles and features on banking, markets and power - who has it, and who wants it. Before joining The Globe Tim worked in fixed income sales and trading at RBC Dominion Securities and investment banking at National Bank Financial.

Yann Le Pallec is President of S&P Global Ratings and a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team. He has ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the business, including commercial, analytical, control and operations functions. He is based in Paris and heads the S&P Global Ratings Operating Committee.

Mr. Le Pallec chairs the Board of CRISIL Ltd, a global provider of benchmarks and analytics for the financial community that also owns CRISIL Ratings, a leading credit rating agency in India. CRISIL Ltd is listed on BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange).

Previously, Mr. Le Pallec was the Executive Managing Director and Head of Global Ratings Services which oversees Analytics, Research, and Operations, encompassing more than 2,200 analysts and support staff across 28 countries who cover more than one million outstanding ratings on entities and securities across a range of sectors, including governments, corporations, financial institutions and structured finance.

Since joining S&P Global Ratings in 1999, Mr. Le Pallec has held a diverse array of roles, including Head of Global Corporate Ratings, leading a group of 500 analysts responsible for coverage of more than 4,000 non-financial corporations worldwide. Before that he led S&P Global’s credit ratings business in EMEA, managing a team of more than 900 ratings analysts and support staff across a dozen offices. Previously, he was Head of EMEA Corporate and Government Ratings, after serving in various managerial and analytical positions in the Insurance and Sovereign & Public Sector groups.

Mr. Le Pallec is the S&P Global Executive Sponsor for the Company's PRIDE People Resource Group, which is dedicated to maintaining a supportive work environment for LGBTQ+ colleagues.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Mr. Le Pallec worked for nine years at Paris-based auditing and financial services firm Salustro Reydel.

Mr. Le Pallec holds a master's degree in Business from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economique et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France.

As the former Auditor General of Ontario, Ms. Lysyk is one of the most well known and respected senior auditors in Canada. She has extensive experience leading, professional, multi-disciplinary organizations, and possesses extensive audit, finance, risk management, forensic, regulatory, and governance knowledge and experience important to investigating capital markets misconduct and enforcing Ontario securities law. As Auditor General of Ontario, Ms. Lysyk was the external auditor of the OSC for ten years and developed an in-depth knowledge of the OSC’s operations with an eye to ensuring that the public obtains, efficient, fair and effective services as the OSC fulfills its mandate.

Ms. Lysyk has held senior positions in both the private and public sectors including crown corporations, utilities, and financial services during a 35-year career spent in three provinces. Prior to serving as the Auditor General of Ontario, she served as the Provincial Auditor of Saskatchewan and as the Deputy Auditor General and Chief Operating Officer in Manitoba.

In 2017, Ms. Lysyk was named a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario – recognizing those that have rendered exceptional service to their profession and their communities. In 2020, she received the Goodman School of Business Distinguished Leader Award. Ms. Lysyk has an MBA and holds the ICD.D designation issued by the Institute of Corporate Directors and is a Senior Fellow with the C.D. Howe Institute. She recently served on the Board of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments.

Jo-Anne Matear is the Head of Sustainable Finance at the Ontario Securities Commission. She is responsible for developing and implementing a cross-organization sustainable finance regulatory strategy and working on key strategic and high priority sustainable finance matters that impact the capital markets. She has led several significant policy initiatives, including initiatives regarding environmental- and climate-related disclosures, corporate governance and diversity on corporate boards and in executive roles. 

Prior to joining the OSC, Jo-Anne practised corporate and securities law in Toronto, Ontario and London, England. Jo-Anne received her Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from Queen’s University and her Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto.

Matthew Onyeaju is Senior Vice President, of the Registration, Inspections and Examinations (RIE) Division at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). He has extensive leadership experience in compliance program development, oversight, supervision, and investigations.

Matthew is Chair of the OSC Registrant Advisory Committee. He was also previously Vice-Chair of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA) Central Region District Council and member of its Policy Advisory Committee and additionally served on the Financial Service Regulatory Authority (FSRA) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on insurer oversight of MGAs. Matthew has been contracted as a Subject Matter Expert in the development of course curriculum required for registration and continuing education.

Prior to joining the OSC in 2024, Matthew held progressive roles of increasing seniority within the private sector and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and spent over a decade in executive compliance management positions at large national firms, which typically included multi-mandate Chief Compliance Officer roles over a variety of registration categories. Matthew graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts (with distinction) from the University of Toronto, Master of Securities Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School and has obtained the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Financial Risk Manager designations in addition to numerous industry credentialling courses offered by the Canadian Securities Institute (CSI).

Steven Peikin is a litigation partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP where he leads its Securities & Commodities Investigations Practice. Steve represents institutions and individuals in a wide of variety of investigations, including before the Department of Justice, SEC, and CFTC.

Steve has held positions at the most senior levels of government, including service as the Co-Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement from 2017 to 2020, where he oversaw all aspects of the SEC’s national enforcement program. From 1996 to 2004, he served as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, including as Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.

Steve is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, both magna cum laude.

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).

Winnie Sanjoto has been with the Commission in progressively senior roles for more than 20 years. Before assuming her current role as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance, she worked as a Senior Legal Counsel, Manager and the Director of the Corporate Finance Branch.

Over the course of her career at the OSC, Winnie has worked on numerous complex operational matters encompassing all aspects of the Division’s regulatory activities. She also has played a strategic lead role on organization-wide initiatives such as the OSC’s burden reduction initiative. Winnie has led and continues to lead various policy initiatives that involve working closely with key market participants as well as other Canadian and international regulators.

Prior to joining the OSC, Winnie practiced law at a full-service law firm in Toronto. She obtained her law degree from the University of Toronto and was called to the bar in 2000.

Barbara Shecter is a veteran Canadian journalist, known for in-depth reporting and storytelling with a focus on the business world. She had interviewed CEOs, politicians and other key Bay Street players and decision-makers over more than two decades, and her journalism has been recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW Canada) and the Portfolio Management Association of Canada. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Journalism from Western University and has been invited to share her expertise on television, radio, and podcasts, including CTV, CBC, Global, and TVOntario’s flagship current affairs program The Agenda. Barbara has also taught courses in recent years at Toronto Metropolitan University and the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.

Steve Smart has had a career spanning 30 years working within government against a range of national security threats. For the majority of that time he was focused on the threats from terrorism, extremism and hostile states. More recently, as the Director of Intelligence at the National Crime Agency, he has helped lead the fight against Serious Organised Crime.

He has built and led proactive investigative and intelligence functions in a number of organisations, including two years in a major banking group. He has extensive experience of working with partners in the police, wider law enforcement and intelligence agencies both in the UK and overseas. 
A graduate of economics from the University of Lancaster, he was awarded an OBE in 2003.

Johanna Superina is Senior Vice President of the Enforcement Division of the Ontario Securities Commission. She has previously held roles as Deputy Director, Manager and Senior Litigation Counsel within the OSC’s Enforcement Branch.

Johanna served a 4-year term as Chair of the Enforcement Committee of the Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”), the umbrella organization for all securities commissions across Canada. She joined the OSC in 1998 after eight years of practicing commercial and securities litigation at a full-service law firm in Toronto.

Johanna has been lead counsel on numerous leading cases, including those before the Capital Markets Tribunal. She has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada in securities-related litigation.

Since 2018, Johanna has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, co-teaching a course on Securities Litigation. She also served as a Director of the Advocates’ Society.

Johanna obtained her law degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1988 and was called to the bar in 1990.

Miville Tremblay is a Senior Fellow at the CD Howe Institute, Fellow invité at CIRANO and a regular op-ed contributor at La Presse. He is a member of the board of directors of the Autorité des marchés financiers.

Miville has been Chair of the Accounting Standards Oversight Council and member of the Implementation Committee of the Canadian Sustainability Standards Board. He has been much involved in the efforts to attract in Canada the office of the International Sustainability Standards Board.

Prior his retirement in in December 2018, he was Senior Director and member of the Monetary Policy Review and Financial Stability Review committees of the Bank of Canada.

Miville has started his career as a business reporter, mainly at La Presse, before becoming Director of Strategic Intelligence at CDPQ.

He holds an Executive MBA from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), a Master’s in Public Policy Analysis from Laval University and a BA in Political Science from McGill. He holds the CFA designation and a Certificate in ESG Investing.

Miville is the author of two books on finance and business. He has received the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy, the Prix du livre d’affaires PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Prix Performance from UQÀM business school.