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Founder
Fertility Coalition of British Columbia Penny Blesch founded the Fertility Coalition of British Columbia (FCBC) while being the Chief Operating Officer of a local Fertility Clinic and after a decade of personal hardship in fertility.
Penny has experienced firsthand how devastating being diagnosed with infertility can be and the financial hardships that accompany this diagnosis. Determined to make a difference, Penny quit her corporate job and joined a leading fertility clinic in Vancouver. Being part of the miracle of IVF and seeing the impact of fertility treatments has motivated Penny to do even more.
Penny founded the FCBC because she believes that access to fertility treatments should not be a privilege and has engaged a professional lobbyist to develop a strategic government relations plan to secure funding for fertility treatments. |
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 | Kevin Bell
Vice President, Business Development, Western Canada
People Corporation
Kevin is responsible for the development of Group Insurance markets in western Canada.
Kevin has extensive experience advising clients in the design and implementation of complex benefit programs and their corresponding reporting requirements. This experience extends to both union and non-union environments.
Prior to joining People Corporation in August of 2020, Kevin spent 8 years as a Vice-President in the benefits consulting practice of an international benefits and pension consulting firm.
Kevin has also spent more than 13 years as a Benefits Executive for both a regional and national insurance carrier in the Winnipeg and Toronto markets.
A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Kevin holds degrees in both Psychology and Commerce (Honors).
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 | Chris Bonnett, Phd
Principal Consultant
H3 Consulting Chris Bonnett established H3 Consulting in 1999, after 18 years of progressive experience in employee benefits. He provides practical policy research for private and public drug plan leaders, and advises on strategies to improve health in the workplace.
Chris has been a director on the Boards of four health service organizations. He is a member of the Program Advisory Committee for Humber College’s Bachelor of Health Sciences – Workplace Health and Wellness degree. He provides peer review of drug policy research for the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and has written a number of commentaries for the CD Howe Institute.
Chris holds a PhD in drug policy from the University of Waterloo and a Master's degree in Health Science from the University of Toronto. |
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 | Tori Buffery
Senior Director, Secondaries
Nicola Wealth Tori brings extensive experience to her role as Senior Director, Secondaries at Nicola Wealth, where she leads a dedicated Secondaries strategy. Prior to joining Nicola in April 2024, Tori was a Partner at Morningside Capital and led the Firm’s single asset secondaries strategy. While at Morningside, Tori played a pivotal role in growing the firm from nascency to over $400 million in assets under management. Prior to joining Morningside, Tori worked in the Funds, Secondaries and Co-Investments team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Toronto and London, UK where she gained extensive experience in private equity. Her experience spans North America, Europe and Asia in the mid, large and mega markets. Tori actively contributes to the community as a board member at Urban Squash Toronto and a member of the Finance Committee at the North York
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 | Lisa C. Chamzuk
Partner
Lawson Lundell LLP
Lisa practices exclusively in the area of pension and employee benefits, representing boards of trustees and corporate plan sponsors in both the public and private sectors and in a wide variety of industries. She regularly advises boards of trustees and other sponsors of pension and employee benefit plans in respect of the interpretation and amendment of plan texts, the application of the governing legal principles, and provincial and federal legislation, including pension standards legislation, tax law and privacy law. Lisa also provides support to litigators engaged in complex pension and employee benefit litigation and provides litigation risk assessment and management services to her clients. |
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 | Carolyn Chapman
Organizational Health Consultant
Canada Life Carolyn has worked in the field of disability management and rehabilitation services for over 25 years. Prior to her current role, she has held roles as a Disability Case Manager, Team Manager, and a leader of Disability Intervention Services, and has been with Canada Life since 2000. She holds a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist certificate and has her Mindful Leader certification. Carolyn collaborates closely with clients of varying size and complexity and has a deep understanding of the organizational needs and health factors that impact clients. She provides disability management and well-being education, as well as developing customized disability management programs to help organizations control their rising costs. |
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| Bernice Cheung
VP Financial Services & Cultural Markets Research
Environics Research |
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| Anar Dossa
Director, Pharmacy ServicesDirector, Pharmacy Services
Pacific Blue Cross Anar Dossa is the Director of Pharmacy Services at Pacific Blue Cross. She has over 30 years of experience in providing evidence based care. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC, Past Chair of the Board, College of Pharmacists of BC and Chair of the Prescription Drug Committee, CLHIA. |
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 | Sofia Gertsberg
Managing Director, Quantitative Investment Science (QIS)
Harbourvest Sofia Gertsberg joined HarbourVest in 2016 to lead the Firm’s Quantitative Investment Science team. The team’s objectives are to utilize HarbourVest’s proprietary data set to develop quantitative tools and models to enhance fundamentally-driven investment and portfolio construction process across the firm.
Sofia joined the Firm from State Street Global Advisors, where she was the global head of Fixed Income and Money Market Risk leading the investment risk oversight of assets across active, smart beta, and passive strategies for fixed income, cash, and currency portfolios. Her responsibilities included leading a global team of investment risk managers and analysts, designing and implementing investment risk monitoring framework, setting internal risk limits, and conducting risk management due diligence for outside managers. Sofia was also a voting member of SSGA’s Sub-advisor Oversight and Valuation Committees. Prior to that, she was a market risk manager at State Street Global Markets. She also held a director of analytics role at Debt Exchange.
Sofia received a BS in Economics from the University of Latvia in 2000 and an MBA from Boston University in 2003. She speaks fluent Russian and Latvian. |
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 | Milla Craig
CEO and President
Millani Inc. Milla is Founder, CEO and President of Millani Inc., an independent capital markets advisory firm specializing in ESG/sustainability helping investors integrate ESG/sustainability issues and impact into their investment decisions, companies communicate their material ESG/sustainability and impact issues to investors, boards of directors understand their ESG/sustainability and impact related responsibilities and capital markets participants create their proprietary ESG/sustainability and impact strategies.
Throughout her career, Milla has worked very closely with senior management and investor relations teams of Canadian publicly-listed companies, as well as financial analysts and investment managers of several Canadian pension and investment funds. Prior to founding Millani in 2008, she worked for more than 15 years in the institutional equity markets for major Canadian financial institutions such as RBC Dominion Securities and Scotia Capital, where she was consistently ranked as a top-tier salesperson. Later, as Deloitte's Leader – Sustainability, for the Quebec Region, she was actively involved in the development of sustainability strategy, management, stakeholder engagement, and reporting for a variety of Canadian organizations.
Milla sat on the board of the Responsible Investment Association (RIA) and chaired its Nomination Committee from 2020 to 2024. She is past Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Finance and Sustainability Initiative of Finance Montréal. Milla is recipient of the 2017 Clean16 Award, and in 2020 was awarded Montreal’s Y Foundation Women of Distinction Award, in the Business & Entrepreneurship category. Milla is also a faculty of the Institute of Corporate Directors Social Issues course since 2021. |
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 | Kathryn Farrell, CFA
Portfolio specialist
T. Rowe Price
Kathryn Farrell is a portfolio specialist covering the target date strategies in the Multi-Asset Division. She is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. Kathryn's investment experience began in 2007, and she has been with T. Rowe Price since 2017, beginning in the Investment Specialists Group. Prior to this, Kathryn was employed by Portfolio Evaluations, Inc., as an associate director of research. Kathryn also was employed by Morningstar, Inc., in Sydney, Australia, and Chicago, where she was a senior fund analyst focusing on target date and asset allocation funds. Kathryn earned a B.S., with honors, in psychology, with a minor in mathematics, from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Kathryn also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. CFA® and Chartered Financial Analyst® are registered trademarks owned by CFA Institute. |
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 | Greg Heise, FSA, FCIA, FCA
Partner
George & Bell Consulting
Greg is a Partner at George & Bell Consulting in Vancouver. He has worked in the pension and investment fields for 32 years. He has worked with a diverse group of clients, including public and private sector, multi-employer and jointly-trusteed pension plans, various non-pension trusts and large national and international corporations.
He has extensive experience in the areas of plan design, valuation, compliance, administration, investment strategy, manager selection, asset-liability analysis and performance evaluation. Mr. Heise is a frequent speaker on actuarial matters at industry events and is an instructor of the International Foundation’s Advanced Trust Management Standards course. Most recently, he has participated on two working groups reviewing the funding rules for defined benefit and target benefit pension plans in B.C.
He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, Society of Actuaries and Conference of Consulting Actuaries and a graduate of the University of Waterloo. |
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 | Chris Horwood
Head of Institutional Investments
Orbis Chris Horwood joined Orbis in 2013 and leads the firm’s institutional business in Canada. Based in Vancouver, his team services institutional clients and consultants in Canada, as well as parts of the U.S. Chris is also a director of Orbis Investment Advisory (Canada) Limited. He previously worked as a trader at Orbis and, before joining Orbis, as a strategy and operations consultant at Deloitte. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and political science from McGill University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is also a CFA® charterholder. |
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 | Michael Hunstad
Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Chief Investment Officer, Global Equities
Asset Management
Northern Trust Asset Management Michael Hunstad is Executive Vice President, Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Global Equities at Northern Trust Asset Management. Michael serves on the asset management executive group and has oversight of all equity portfolio management, research and trading activities including quantitative, index and tax-advantaged strategies.
Previously, Michael was director of quantitative research where he was responsible for leading Northern Trust Asset Management's factor based research and product development programs. Prior to joining Northern Trust, he was head of research at Breakwater Capital, an algorithmic trading firm and hedge fund. Previously, he was head of quantitative asset allocation at Allstate Investments, LLC and a quantitative analyst with a long-short equity hedge fund. He also served as an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics, an MBA in finance, an M.A. in econometrics and a bachelor's degree in economics. |
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 | Omar Jabri
Managing Director
Lexington Partners Omar Jabri is a Managing Director at Lexington Partners, a global leader in private equity secondaries and co-investment funds. Mr. Jabri is primarily engaged in the sourcing and execution of direct co-investment opportunities in growth and buyout transactions alongside private equity managers.
Prior to joining Lexington Partners, Mr. Jabri was an investment banking analyst at Evercore Partners in New York where he focused on M&A, restructuring and financial services transactions. He received an Honors Business Administration degree with distinction from Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario. Mr. Jabri is fluent in Arabic and French. |
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| Emma Kirk
Regional Director, EFAP, Western Region
Homewood Health |
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 | Claude Lamoureux
First CEO, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board
Co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance
An actuary by training, Claude Lamoureux was the first CEO of Teachers’, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. Between 1990 and 2007, the year he retired, Mr. Lamoureux made Teachers’ a highly innovative pension plan, with assets of over $100 billion and offering exceptional services to its membership of over 250,000. Before his arrival at Teachers’, Mr. Lamoureux worked at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company first in the United States then in Canada, where he headed up activities between 1986 and 1990. Co-founder of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, Mr. Lamoureux has been a member of several Boards of Directors, currently sitting on the boards of Industrial Alliance, Maple Leaf Foods, Orbite Aluminae, St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and the York University Foundation. Holder of a degree in business administration from Université de Montréal and in commerce from Université Laval, Claude Lamoureux has also been granted honorary doctorates from York University and Université de Montréal. Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Institute of Corporate Directors, he is also an Officer of the Order of Canada and of the Ordre National du Québec and a member of the Order of Ontario. |
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| Isabelle Laprise
Manager and Head of Responsible Investment
Desjardins Global Asset Management |
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 | Suzanne Lepage
Private Plan Health Strategist
Suzanne Lepage is a private health plan strategist who bridges the pharmaceutical and group benefits industry. Prior to beginning her consulting practice, Suzanne was National Manager Private Healthcare with Roche Canada. During that time she developed and executed private healthcare strategies and managed a patient assistance program for biologic medications. Prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry Suzanne worked in group benefits in a wide variety of roles for almost 20 years. Most recently she was the Product Manager for the drug programs at Manulife Financial. She is frequent speaker and contributor to both group benefits and pharmaceutical industry conferences and publications Suzanne help you understand, navigate and develop strategies for private health plans by leveraging our unique blend of group benefits and pharmaceutical industry experience. |
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 | Mark Mervyn
Partner
Aon Mark Mervyn is a partner and qualified actuary who leads Aon’s Vancouver wealth solutions practice and provides consulting services to organizations in British Columbia and across North America. He joined Aon in 2001 and is dedicated to improving the pension industry and to creating more sustainable, inclusive and risk-informed retirement outcomes for Canadians. He applies his expertise on plan funding, risk management, inclusion and diversity, financial reporting, experience studies, communication, and administration to help organizations make strategic data-driven decisions. He is a key contributor to actuarial and industry groups. Mark is a member of the BC regional council of the Association of Canadian Pension Management and actively engages in discussions with the BC Financial Service Authority and the BC Ministry of Finance on pension related issues. Mark serves on the Canadian Institute of Actuaries Pension Practice Council. He also chaired the Pension Plan Financial Reporting Committee of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries from 2017 to 2019 and served on designated groups of the Canadian Actuarial Standards Board. He helped formulate many submissions during BC pension funding reform consultations and continues to provide input on topics such as risk management, climate change and gender identity. Mark has spoken at numerous events for ACPM, CPBI, Aon and the CIA, most recently on the topic of inclusion for pension plans (CPBI Banff and ACPM Vancouver in 2024, and CPBI Saskatoon in 2023). |
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 | Ian A. McKinnon, CFA
Chief Investment Officer Addenda CApital Ian focuses on creating synergies between portfolio management teams. He also fosters collaboration among the investment teams and with Sustainable Investing, Economics, Operations and Client Partnerships and Business Development. This integrated approach allows for the optimization of investment strategies to meet clients' needs. His career spans career spans over 30 years in the financial industry, with leadership positions at Addenda Capital, Alphaquest Investment Management, and McLean Budden/Sun Life Investment Management. Ian holds a bachelor's degree in economics and a certificate in administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. |
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 | Peter Muldowney
Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional & Multi-Asset Strategy
Peter is Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional & Multi-Asset Strategy at Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group, and heads the firm’s Strategic Exchange initiative. Peter has over 20 years of investment experience in Canada, the U.S., and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, he spent his earlier years in consulting, which included leading two of the major Canadian firms and then moving to the investment management business in 2008, when he established a new investment operation for a Canadian insurance company.
Peter obtained his Sustainable Investment Professional Certification from Concordia University in 2022.
Peter provides support to various charities, with a particular involvement with Down Syndrome Resource Foundation. |
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 | Ana Nunes
Chair, Board of Trustees of the MoveUP/ICBC
President, APN Advisory Canada Ana Nunes has worked in the pension industry for over 30 years as an actuary, investment, operational and governance professional. She is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of the MoveUP/ICBC Pension Plan and runs her own consulting business, APN Advisory Canada.
Ana held various leadership roles during her 13 years at OMERS, including Senior Vice President of Plan Risk, Senior Vice President of Pension Services, President of OMERS Investment Management, and Plan Actuary. During her prior 18-year consulting career at Mercer, she advised clients on the full spectrum of pension plan management issues.
Ana is actively involved in various pension industry leadership initiatives:
• she is currently Chair of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries’ Enterprise Risk Management Practice Committee (ERMPC)
• she was a member of the Industry Working Group established by CAPSA to assist in the creation of new Risk Management Guidelines for Pension Plans,
• she is an instructor for the Pension Plan Administrators Course (PPAC) through Humber College, and
• she is a member of the Women in Pensions leadership committee
Ana has delivered numerous presentations throughout her career, and has most recently spoken at Aon’s Wealth Insights Conference (Miami, 2023) and Responsible Investment Forum (Toronto, 2024).
In addition to being a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and Society of Actuaries, Ana is a CFA Charterholder and holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. Ana holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University.
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 | Jackie Patel
Asistant Vice-President
Marketing & Communications, Group Retirement Services, Sun Life Jackie has more than 20 years of experience leading high-performing teams at large financial institutions in the group retirement services business. She joined Sun Life in 2019, as AVP of Marketing and Communications. In her current role, she is responsible for the overall leadership and execution of plan sponsor marketing and communication initiatives and delivering key market insights through the thought leadership strategy. A strong advocate for the evolution of the plan sponsor and member experience, Jackie is recognized for her knowledge of the group retirement business and proven ability to create effective, industry-leading marketing strategies that generate meaningful outcomes for plan members. She has a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from Concordia University (now John Molson School of Business) and is a Certified Financial Planner with FP Canada. |
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 | Ramy Rayes
Executive Vice President, Investment Strategy & Risk
BCI Ramy Rayes joined BCI in July 2016. He is responsible for setting, implementing, and monitoring clients’ investment strategies and for providing independent advice to BCI’s stakeholders. With $250.4 billion of gross managed assets as of March 31, 2024, BCI is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors within the global capital markets.
Most recently, Ramy led BCI’s strategic asset allocation team and was responsible for research and recommendations related to clients’ asset allocation, investment strategies, and a wide range of other investment topics.
Prior to joining BCI, Ramy spent a decade at Morneau Shepell Ltd. (now LifeWorks Inc.) in Montreal as Principal, Asset and Risk Management, where he advised employers on all aspects of asset & liability management for pension funds. Before this, Ramy spent two years at the Laurentian Bank of Canada.
Ramy holds a bachelor of science in mathematics specializing in actuarial science from the University of Montreal. He is an associate of the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and a financial risk manager certified by the Global Association of Risk Professionals.
He serves on the Board of Directors for the QuadReal Property Group. |
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 | Pavithra Ravi
Head of Pharmacy Strategy and Pharmaceutical Relationships
Pharmacist, Manulife Pavithra Ravinatarajan is a practicing pharmacist in the region of Kitchener, Ont. and Waterloo, Ont. She works in both traditional retail and compounding pharmacy, in benefits strategy at Manulife and also teaches business at the University of Waterloo’s school of pharmacy.
Ravinatarajan has spent more than 15 years in various areas of pharmacy and health care. As an experienced leader, subject matter expert and innovator, she understands the requirements of embracing innovation. She has worked in retail pharmacy, long-term care and specialty pharmacy, health benefits management, drug plan design, operational excellence/workflow/process centralization and technology integration. At her core, Ravinatarajan has a passion for patient care and the growth of the pharmacy profession.
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| Philippe Rickli
Principal, Pension and Savings
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| Catherine Robertson
Consulting Actuary and Principal
Eckler Ltd |
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 | Barbara Sanders, FSA, FCIA
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Fraser Univerisity Barbara Sanders, FSA, FCIA, is an actuarial educator and researcher. After spending 8 years in pension consulting, Barbara joined Simon Fraser University as a faculty member in 2010. Her research is heavily influenced by her background in industry, exploring emerging issues in pension practice. Current interests include sustainability in occupational pension plans, and the effective design, management and regulation of risk sharing in these arrangements. Barbara is actively involved in public policy discussions surrounding pensions: she chaired the Canadian Institute of Actuaries’ Task Force on Target Benefit Plans, is an Associate Fellow of the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) at Toronto Metropolitan University and a member of the C. D. Howe Institute’s Pension Policy Council. She also co-leads the NIA’s newly formed Pension Centre of Excellence. Barbara holds a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Actuarial Science. |
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 | Shelley Sjoberg Shelley Sjoberg is a distinguished leader with more than 15 years of experience in group benefits and retirement savings solutions. She has a proven track record in new product innovation and providing strategic support for new and existing group benefits and retirement savings offerings.
Since joining Canada Life in 2006, Sjoberg has assumed roles of increasing responsibility in strategic investment planning, asset and liability management, group insurance pricing, marketing, client analytics and fraud management.
As a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries, she brings a depth of knowledge and expertise. Her unique blend of business acumen and passion for helping Canadians build better employee benefit plans that support diverse and inclusive workplaces has made her a thought leader in financial wellness and workplace diversity.
Sjoberg lives in Winnipeg with her two sons and partner. She’s learning to enjoy cold weather sports and is constantly looking forward to the summer.
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 | Cynthia Shaw-Pereira
Vice President, Head of Asset Owner Segment
CIBC Mellon Cynthia is Vice President, Head of the Asset Owner Segment at CIBC Mellon. She oversees client management for CIBC Mellon’s asset owner clients as well as the development of innovative solutions for leading Canadian pension plans, endowments, foundations, governments, corporations and other asset owners. Cynthia has 20 years of industry experience, and is a recognized thought leader on performance measurement, risk analytics and ESG integration, as well as a regular speaker at Canadian investment industry forums She holds certificates in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) and ESG Investing from the CFA Institute as well as a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto. |
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| Christie Stephenson
Executive Director, Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics
UBC Sauder School of Business
Christie Stephenson has been the Executive Director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at UBC Sauder Business School since 2016. She previously spent more than 15 years working in ESG investing and has remained involved in the field by teaching ESG investment to undergraduate and MBA students, as a director of four UNPRI signatories, the Metro Vancouver Zero Emissions Innovation Centre’s investment committee and Watershed Security Fund of BC’s investment working group, and as a pension trustee and judge for the Canadian Investment Review's Pension Leadership Awards.
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 | Fiona Tam
Assistant Vice-President, Strategy, Data & Analytics
Group Retirement Services, Sun Life Fiona has more than 15 years of experience in financial services industry. Since joining Sun Life in 2009, she’s worked across the organization to drive strategy in areas including Public and Corporate Affairs, Client Experience, and Corporate Strategy. In 2022 Fiona was appointed to her current role as AVP, Strategy, Data & Analytics for Group Retirement Services. She is responsible for developing and executing on the growth strategy for the group retirement business and delivering insights to drive better plan designs and plan member outcomes. Fiona holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Rotman School of Management and a Bachelor of Mathematics, major in Computer Science from University of Waterloo. |
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| Jason Vary
President
Actuarial Solutions Inc Jason Vary, President of Actuarial Solutions Inc., has practiced in defined benefit pension and retiree health plans for over twenty-five years. He has experience with many plan designs including single-employer, multi-employer, jointly-sponsored, private sector, government, unionized, non-unionized, as well as registered and non-registered executive plans. Jason joined Actuarial Solutions Inc. in 2006 and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries. Jason is an active volunteer with the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, the International Actuarial Association, and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario.
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| Marc-André Vinson
Senior Consultant & Director
SAI Actuarial Services Marc-André has over 30 years of experience in the field of actuarial consulting for pension plans. Prior to joining SAI Actuarial Services as both a Senior Consultant and the Director of the Ottawa office, he held various roles over his career, including that of Canadian Retirement Practice Leader for Buck Consultants. He was also a Consultant in Vancouver for Western Compensation & Benefits Consultants.
Marc-André distinguished himself by being involved with multiple boards of trustees and joint pension advisory committees. His primary clients have included the largest federal public service union’s pension plan, a major international airline and several professional associations. He has also worked with clients in the private, municipal and university sectors, including multi-employer and target benefit pension plans. He has served pension plans registered in every province across Canada, as well as federally-registered plans.
Throughout his career, Marc-André has delivered a wide array of mandates, including the development of governance and funding policies, plan redesigns, mergers and wind-ups, and has hosted a large number of information sessions and general meetings for the members of all sorts of pension plans.
Marc-André holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (Actuarial option) from the University of Montreal, from which he graduated in 1991. He has been an Associate of the Society of Actuaries since 1993 and is also an Associate of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. He regularly acts as a speaker on pension matters in industry seminars and webinars and has volunteered as a spokesperson for a task force of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries that brought
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| Joan Weir
Vice President, Group Benefits
CLHIA Joan is the vice president of group benefits for CLHIA (Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association), a voluntary trade association with member companies that account for all of Canada's life and health insurance business. In her role, Joan is responsible for analysis on industry issues, policy strategy development and to build consensus on concerns important to member companies. An important part of the health portfolio is working within industry, including with national healthcare associations as well as with provincial/federal payers on benefit programs, specifically on best practices, strategy, advocacy and sustainability. Joan has been with the CLHIA for more than 9 years in this role.
Joan brings 20+ years of benefits management expertise to her position at CLHIA, having worked for insurers and administrators on both private and public sector programs, notably with First Canadian Health and Health Canada on the NIHB program and most recently with Medavie Blue Cross. |
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