Board Members
CHERYL BARKER - Interim Chair of the Board
  • Board member since December 18, 2006
  • Committee Membership: Audit Committee, Governance Committee – Chair, Investment Committee

Ms. Barker is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Canada Media Fund and also serves as a trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee of Lanesborough REIT. She was President of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MTS) from 2004 until her retirement in February 2006. Ms. Barker’s career at MTS spanned 19 years, during which she served in a variety of key positions, including President and COO of MTS Communications Inc.; Chair, President and CEO of Bell Intrigna Inc.; and CFO and Treasurer of MTS. A Chartered Accountant (CA), Ms. Barker holds a B.Sc. as well as a Certificate in Education from the University of Manitoba.

DIANE BEAN
  • Board member since June 18, 2010
  • Committee Membership: Human Resources and Compensation Committee, Investment Committee

Ms. Bean is a member of the Boards of Directors of Manulife International Limited (Asia), The Insurance Company of the West Indies, Roy Thomson Hall/Massey Hall and the Canada School of Public Service, and was founding Co-Chair of the Toronto Regional Immigration Employment Council. She was Executive Vice-President of Manulife Financial until her retirement in February 2011. For more than 30 years she served in senior management roles for its businesses in Canada, the United States and Asia, most recently as head of global human resources. Ms. Bean has a B.Comm. from the University of Toronto.

MICHELINE BOUCHARD
  • Board member since September 29, 2011
  • Committee Membership: Human Resources and Compensation Committee, Investment Committee

Micheline Bouchard has extensive director experience with public, private and state-owned commercial companies and volunteer boards. Past board membership experience includes Ford Motor Canada, Banque Nationale de Paris and, currently with Telus and Harry Winston Diamond.  She is a member of the Order of Canada and her work experience has taken her across Canada and to the United States.

LÉON COURVILLE
  • Board member since March 5, 2007
  • Committee Membership: Governance Committee, Human Resources and Compensation Committee,
    Investment Committee

Mr. Courville has devoted his entire career to the sciences of management and finance, serving first as a professor and researcher at universities in Canada and the United States before being appointed President of the National Bank of Canada. He is enjoying an active “retirement” as a corporate director, an associate professor at l’École des Hautes Études Commerciales and proprietor of the Domaine Les Brome vineyard, which he founded in 1999. Mr. Courville is a member of the Boards of Directors of Nav Canada, the Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec and the Institut économique de Montréal. His research and publications have garnered awards and bursaries in Canada and abroad, including the Coopers & Lybrand Award for his work entitled The Storm - Navigating the New Economy. Mr. Courville holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University.

ANTHONY R. GAGE
  • Board member since June 27, 2006
  • Committee Membership: Audit Committee, Investment Committee – Chair

Mr. Gage is Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Victoria, a Director of Sky Investment Counsel and Head of the Management Committee of JEA Pension System Solutions. He is a former Chair of the Board of Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management. His career at Phillips, Hager & North, where he served as President and CEO from 1994 to 1999, spanned more than 20 years. Previously, Mr. Gage was Assistant Vice-President and Director of Confed Investment Counseling, the pension fund management arm of Confederation Life. Mr. Gage holds a BA (Economics) from the University of Victoria and an MBA (Finance) from the University of British Columbia. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and an accredited Chartered Director (McMaster University).

GARNET GARVEN
  • Board member since September 29, 2011
  • Committee Membership: Audit Committee, Governance Committee, Investment Committee

Mr. Garven is Senior Fellow at Canada’s Public Policy Forum, a national think tank focusing on governance and public service issues. He previously served as Deputy Minister to the Premier, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Saskatchewan Public Service. Educated in Business Administration at the Universities of Regina, Saskatchewan (Saskatoon) and Western Ontario (London), Mr. Garven was awarded an Honourary CMA by the Society of Management Accountants. For 12 years, he was Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Regina (Paul J. Hill School of Business and the Kenneth Levene Graduate School of Management). Prior to this he served as a Research Fellow in corporate governance at Canada’s National Centre for Management Research and Development at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Mr. Garven also served for seven years as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board, including National President of the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada. Mr. Garven has served on a variety of public, private and non-for-profit boards of directors including being a founding director of the Investment Corporation of Saskatchewan (now Greystone Managed Investments).

LYNN HAIGHT
  • Board member since January 14, 2010
  • Committee Membership: Audit Committee, Investment Committee

Ms. Haight recently retired as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Foresters insurance organization. She previously served as Vice President, US Fixed Annuities, and Chief Accountant of Manulife Financial. A corporate director and consultant, Ms. Haight is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of World Bank’s Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres and Green Shield Canada. She also sits on the Boards of the Bank of India (Canada) and Somerville College, Oxford University. She has served as a Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee of the Ontario Arts Council, Chair of Foresters Holdings Europe, Chair of the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, and Chair of the Sectoral Advisory Group for business services to the federal Minister of Trade. Ms. Haight holds an MA Honours from Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Management Consultants and a Certified Corporate Director.

WILLIAM A. MACKINNON
  • Board member since January 14, 2010
  • Committee Membership: Audit Committee – Chair, Investment Committee

Mr. MacKinnon is a member of the Boards of Directors of Telus, Pioneer Petroleum, Osisko Mining Corporation and Novadaq Technologies. Very active in professional and community circles, he serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Board of Trade, Chair of the Board of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, and Chair of The Toronto East General Hospital Board. He is also a member of the Boards of the Toronto Community Foundation and Roy Thomson Hall and, in 2008, served as Chair of Campaign for the Toronto United Way. Mr. MacKinnon joined KPMG Canada in 1968, became a Partner in 1977 and was the firm’s Chief Executive Officer from 1999 until his retirement at the end of 2008. He also served on the KPMG International Board of Directors. Mr. MacKinnon holds a B. Comm. from the University of Manitoba. He obtained his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation in 1971 and became a FCA in 1994.

MICHAEL P. MUELLER
  • Board member since December 18, 2006
  • Committee Membership: Human Resources and Compensation Committee – Chair, Investment Committee, Governance Committee

Mr. Mueller is Chairman of the Boards of The Scarborough Hospital and Annidis Corp., and a member of the Boards of AIM Therapeutics, Biovest Corp., Budco and The Scarborough Hospital Foundation. He also serves as a strategic advisor to a number of Canadian, US and European companies. From 2003 to 2005, he was President and CEO of MDS Capital Corporation. Mr. Mueller previously held a series of senior executive positions at TD Bank, including Vice Chairman and Global Head of Investment and Corporate Banking. He is a former member of the Boards of Directors of TM BioScience, the Katimavik Foundation, MDS Capital and Canadian Medical Discoveries Funds I and II. Mr. Mueller holds a B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from York University.