TORONTO, ONTARIO, April 2021
Clariti Strategic Advisors™ (“Clariti”) is pleased to announce that Mr. Leo de Bever has joined us as a Senior Advisor and a member of our Advisory Board.
Leo’s passion for productivity is focused, among other things, on improving small company access to commercialization capital. He currently serves as Chairman of Nauticol Energy in Calgary, Chairman of Cachet Energy in Montreal, Senior Advisor at Mountain Pacific Group in Seattle, Chairman and CEO of Northern Nations Capital Corporation in Vancouver, Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, Advisory Board member of Blue Pier Toronto and a member of the Board of Sustainable Development Technology Canada in Ottawa.
Over the last 40 years, Leo has worked with eight financial institutions based in Canada, the U.S., Japan and Australia. He started his career at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa in 1975. He then held several Chief Economist positions, beginning with Chase Econometrics Canada, moving to Crown Life Insurance, and Nomura Securities Canada.
For nearly ten years, Leo served as a senior vice-president at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where he was responsible for long-term investment strategy, risk management and real return assets. While there, he helped the organization become an early investor in infrastructure, timberland and commodities.
Between 2008 and 2014, Leo served as inaugural CEO of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation. Before joining AIMCo, Leo was CIO at Victorian Funds Management Corporation in Melbourne, Australia and EVP Global Investment Management with Manulife Financial in Toronto.
Leo has served as an advisor to Norway’s Pension Plan and on the Investment Committee of Dutch pension fund APG and has led numerous government economic panels. He can often be seen participating as a commentator on business TV networks Bloomberg and BNN.
Leo grew up in the Netherlands. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.
In welcoming Leo to the firm’s Advisory Board, Brendan Paddick, Chair of the Board of Clariti, said: “Leo has had a storied career working in very senior and influential positions with major policy makers and private and public-sector investors alike. We look forward to our clients benefiting from Leo’s many years of wisdom as a Senior Advisor at Clariti.”
Sandra Taube Godard, Managing Director, added: “Over my career I have had many occasions to interact with Leo in his various roles, and have developed a very high regard for Leo and his way of thinking. It is my personal pleasure to welcome Leo to Clariti’s Advisory Board, and I have no doubt that all of us will learn from Leo and his deep and extensive network.”
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