Several financial services executives have been named recipients of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2009, Caldwell Partners International announced Monday.

Among the recipients are:

– Brian Boulanger, senior vice president, ARC Financial Corp.;
– François Desjardins, president & CEO, B2B Trust and executive vice president, Laurentian Bank;
– Philip Fayer, president & CEO, Pivotal Payments;
– Cameron Fowler, executive vice president and head of strategic management and corporate marketing, BMO Financial Group;
– David Henderson, managing director, XPV Capital Corp.;
– Martin Lavigne, senior vice president, third-party business solutions, National Bank of Canada;
– Clive Oshry, co-president, Globex Foreign Exchange Corp.;
– Ali Pejman, head of public venture capital and managing director of mining, Canaccord Genuity;
– Larry Tomei, senior vice president, Central Canada, CIBC Retail Markets; and
– Robert Wilfur, president & CEO, First Capital Management Ltd.

The annual national awards program honours 40 Canadians in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors under the age of 40. The program — now in its 15th year — is managed by founding sponsor, The Caldwell Partners International.

Recipients were selected from over 1,200 nominees by an independent Advisory Board, comprised of 25 business leaders from across Canada.

Honourees were chosen on five key criteria: vision and leadership; innovation and achievement; impact; community involvement and contribution; and strategy for growth.

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