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Prime Quadrant serves over 200 affluent families across North America. Our mission is to empower families for the future and assist them across the full range of their financial, social, and human capital needs. Our culture is the Prime Quadrant PATH – we are Purposeful, Authentic, Tenacious and Humble. We are deeply grateful for the work we are privileged to do, the wonderful families we are fortunate to serve, and the exceptional team around us.

A Multi-Family Office whose mission is to Professionalize and Humanize how families engage with their wealth and each other.• Created firm’s financial and operating infrastructure, including focused strategic planning, reporting and forecasting, trade support and all related policies and procedures. Initial audit of the firm received an unqualified opinion.• Acted as key advisor and coach to staff across the enterprise.• Launched Forthlane pooled funds, implementing fund administration, custody, and operational due diligence.• Established Compliance program comprising rollout of compliance manual, mandatory training, KYC processes, regulatory reporting and surveillance.• Formulated a technology roadmap to provide best in class client experience with enhanced cybersecurity.• Effected corporate reorganization to clearly delineate regulated and non-regulated activities.• Developed and seamlessly executed business continuity protocol in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Successfully recruited and onboarded critical staff in a fully remote environment.

CPPIB is a global professional investment management organization with a singular mandate: to invest the assets belonging to 20 million Canadians to help ensure the sustainability of the Canada Pension Plan. Current holdings exceed $350 Billion across all asset classes.• Recruited to create a new Public Market Investments (PMI) Business Management function for CPPIB.• Developed and executed long-term strategy to enable substantial expansion of investment program scope, complexity, geographic reach and risk deployment, with corresponding increase in investment returns.• Provided client-focused support to the Senior Managing Director as well as portfolio managers and traders across the globe.• Fostered learning culture by introducing case study approach and knowledge sharing platforms, resulting in firm-wide sharing of lessons learned from investments and research.• Engaged employees and empowered creative teams by building a support structure and sense of protection to encourage experimentation with new approaches.• Built Compliance infrastructure that permitted global expansion and reach into new products and markets.• Built a network of global peers to identify best practices and share common issues.• Formulated commission wallet to capture the full scope of commissions, fees and other revenue generated by public and private market transactions, resulting in new capital management strategies with counterparties.

• Recruited to create new function, initiating integrated risk oversight function across all product classes. In 2009, extended coverage to encompass merged Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney wealth management businesses.• Formalized governance structures around reporting of market risk exposures, limit-setting and balance sheet allocation.• Instituted ongoing front-to-back process review program to identify control weaknesses and opportunities to enhance internal service levels, upgrade data integrity and improve client satisfaction.• Established analytics and production team in India.• Formulated risk-based approach to supervision of best execution obligations.• Created and sponsored Risk Talent Initiative, reducing turnover by providing mentoring, exposure and career development opportunities at all levels across the global Risk organization.• Created cross-disciplinary product review committees to determine appropriate level of retail distribution of proposed new products, structures, underliers or sponsors.

• Formalized company’s investment process, including ethics and compliance policies, portfolio selection, and risk reporting and control, culminating in SEC registration• Oversaw all areas of fund administration, including investor reporting and relations, audit, tax, compliance and legal• Negotiated real estate, banking facility and prime brokerage agreements• Selected and implemented global accounting and financial reporting system to deliver flexible profitability reports and user-defined metrics on demand• Developed consultative, proactive relationships with business leaders, working together to determine key business drivers and identify revenue-building and cost-reduction opportunities

Chief Administrative Officer, Retail Asset Management