Board of Directors

During his extensive career in the Ontario Public Service, David Lindsay served as Deputy Minister in half a dozen portfolios including Energy and Infrastructure, Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, Natural Resources, and Tourism and Culture. He also served as the Principal Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Premier of Ontario from 1995 to 1997 and was President and CEO of the Ontario Jobs and Investment Board from 1997 to 1999.

As the founding President of the Ontario SuperBuild Corporation, Mr. Lindsay oversaw provincial government infrastructure planning from 1999 to 2003. He has also served as President and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities, The Forest Products Association of Canada and President and CEO of Colleges Ontario.

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Lindsay has served as a director on the boards of many government agencies, cultural and not-for-profit organizations, and private businesses including the Ontario Innovation Trust, Ontario Realty Corporation, the Public Policy Forum, World Wildlife Fund, Ontario Greenbelt Foundation and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Queen's University School of Policy Studies and on the Board of the Council of the Great Lakes Region.

Bashar Alrehany has over 25 years’ experience as a CEO and board member in the financial services, technology, and health care sectors.

Currently, he is a Non-Executive Director of MCI Onehealth Technologies, which owns and operates one of Canada’s leading primary care networks demonstrating how insights from data can be translated into effective treatments. He is also a Managing Director of a private equity firm, VRG Capital and also a member of the Advisory Board of Veritas Investment Research, an independent equity investment research firm. Lately, he joined Children Mental Health Ontario, CMHO, as board member.

Mr. Alrehany earlier led the Investment Research Division of Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc, which is comprised of two globally leading investment research brands: BCA Research and Ned Davis Group. He became CEO of BCA in 2003 and Executive Chairman of NDR in 2017, positions that he held until 2021. He served as a member of the Euromoney board of directors from 2009 to 2016.

Before joining BCA, Mr. Alrehany spent six years as CEO of Dow Jones Markets Canada and Bridge Information Systems Canada, and 13 years at Reuters plc in various management roles in Canada and the Middle East.

He has a diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science from Teesside Polytechnic.

As CEO of the Ontario Financing Authority, Gadi Mayman is responsible for the Province’s capital market activities, including borrowing and debt management, corporate and electricity finance projects, and its banking and investor relationships. He is also CEO and Vice-Chair of the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation.

Prior to joining the OFA, Mr. Mayman worked at Export Development Canada and in the International Division of the TD Bank.

He received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.

Mr. Mayman is also on the board of Invest Ontario and is Co-Chair of the Joint Nuclear Funds Investment Committee, a joint committee of the OFA and Ontario Power Generation.

Dr. Amit Monga has over 20 years of capital markets, venture capital, and corporate governance experience in the technology, media, telecom, and life sciences sectors.  Previously, he was Managing Director, Technology and Innovation, Global Investment Banking, CIBC Capital Markets. In this role, he assisted large cap companies in the software and hardware sectors with initial public offerings, equity and debt financings and M&A globally. At CIBC, he also served on the Bank's Innovation Council, focusing on fintech, AI and machine learning initiatives across the bank.

He regularly presents on the topics of fintech, artificial intelligence, venture capital, private equity, and M&A. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, from the University of Alberta, where he conducted foundational research in the areas of reliability-based design using genetic algorithms. He currently serves on the boards of Infrastructure Ontario and University of Toronto Press, and is an investor and advisor to Yaletown Partners, a leading North American venture capital firm, investing in the integrated technology stack of Industrial IoT, AI/ML, and operational software.

Carol Pennycook is a partner of the law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg with a diverse corporate, transactional practice including financings, complex corporate reorganizations, plans of arrangement, going private transactions, CCAA reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and public-private partnership transactions.

Ms. Pennycook was formerly a member of the firm's Management Committee and a director on the board of PPP Canada (P3C), a federal Crown corporation. She was Chair of the Commodity Futures Act Advisory Committee in 2005.

She was formerly an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and is recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Lexpert, Best Lawyers, and others and received Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Award.

Alex Pizzimenti received his Chartered Professional Accountant designation in 1990 and established his own accounting practice in 1991.

Alex’s practice provides professional services to corporate and personal clients in the areas of accounting, market share and profitability growth, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, estate and tax planning, and financial management.

His clients extend into many varying industries, including real estate, construction services, law firms, engineering, financial services, insurance brokers, architecture, manufacturing, restaurants, and retail.

Alex is a director of the real estate development group, Eden Oak, managing project finances and liaising with several banks. Alex is also a director of Vic Hadfield Golf and Learning Centre.

David Shiner is an experienced business professional with extensive expertise in the private and public sectors. Having owned and managed private corporations and served as a Toronto City Councillor from 1997 to 2018, Mr. Shiner understands well how business and governments operate.

He chaired city committees responsible for planning and development, finance, public works, and government management and served as Chair of Build Toronto and Vice-Chair of CreateTO, the City of Toronto's real estate and development corporations.  He was also appointed to numerous public and not-for-profit boards including Enwave District Energy, Toronto Hydro, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto Transit Commission, Eva's shelters for homeless youth, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Canadian Film Centre.

Mr. Shiner has an ICD.D designation for completing the Institute of Corporate Directors-Rotman Directors Education Program and is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for his exemplary contribution to his community.

Anne Marie Stetler has over 20 years of experience in the private equity industry, spanning infrastructure, real estate, and cleantech. She has a broad background in investment, asset management, capital raising, and fund management. Ms. Stetler previously co-founded an infrastructure-focused asset management firm that was eventually sold to Fiera Capital. She is currently the founder and CEO of LockDocs, a fintech that is bringing open finance to alternative assets and wealth management.

Anne Marie obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University and holds the Chartered Professional Accountant designation.

Victoria Turnbull has over 35 years of experience in the Canadian banking sector across infrastructure finance, debt capital markets, loan syndications, corporate banking, and risk management. Victoria was with RBC Capital Markets’ Infrastructure Finance team from 2007–23 and was appointed co-head in 2015 and sole head in 2022. She has been actively involved in the infrastructure finance sector since 1998. Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, she spent 12 years working for TD Securities. Prior to that, she worked with three foreign banks in Canada.

Victoria obtained a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Brown University and an MBA with a major in Finance from York University. She is the former Co-Chair and a member of the steering committee for the Toronto Chapter of Women’s Infrastructure Network (WIN) and a former inaugural member of the steering committee for Women in Energy Canada (WIECan). Victoria was WIN’s 2019 Outstanding Leader award winner.

Jeff Wesley is a lawyer with the Anderson Law Group with offices in Wallaceburg and Chatham, Ontario.

For over 30 years, Mr. Wesley worked within the Union Gas Major Projects Group, where he developed and implemented a groundbreaking Indigenous Relations Program and was instrumental in achieving timely approvals for large diameter pipe installations with specific accountabilities for municipalities and the Niagara Escarpment Commission.

He was also an elected official for over two decades, serving the community of Wallaceburg as Mayor and as a Councillor in the amalgamated Municipality of Chatham-Kent. He chaired the Public Utilities Commission and local hospital board and led the Save Our Sydenham Committee, which was instrumental in saving the local hospital.

Mr. Wesley has a Honors B.A. from Western University and a LL.B from the University of Windsor . For his work on behalf of his community, he was honoured with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.