{"id":500038,"date":"2025-01-10T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=500038"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:51:57","slug":"industry-moves-this-week-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/people\/industry-moves-this-week-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry moves this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, we summarize notable moves across the financial industry.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paul de la Roche<\/strong> has been promoted to head of private wealth for the Canadian arm of Fiera Capital. He joined the company in 2013 and has 20 years of industry experience, most recently as senior investment counsellor and regional head of private wealth. He will retain his senior investment counsellor role.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris Heakes<\/strong> has joined the Harvest ETFs investment team, where he will play a key role in advancing the firm\u2019s portfolio management and investment solutions. He previously spent 14 years with BMO Global Asset Management (BMO GAM), most recently as a lead portfolio manager developing ETF strategies focused on quantitative equity research and low-volatility investing. <strong>Laura Tase<\/strong> has joined the company as vice-president of institutional sales. She brings over 20 years of experience in financial services, most recently as vice-president of BMO ETFs with BMO GAM.<\/li>\n<li>The Capital Markets Tribunal division of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced the updated membership of the Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee. They include <strong>Simon Bieber<\/strong> of Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP; <strong>Robert Blair<\/strong>, governance and tribunal secretariat, OSC; <strong>Maureen Doherty<\/strong> of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP; <strong>Raphael T. Eghan<\/strong> of Dentons Canada LLP; <strong>Derek Ferris<\/strong>, enforcement, OSC; <strong>Samantha Gordon<\/strong> of McMillan LLP; <strong>Grace Knakowski<\/strong>, governance and tribunal secretariat, OSC; <strong>Brian Kolenda<\/strong> of Lenczner Slaght LLP; <strong>Karen Manarin<\/strong> of the RCMP\u2019s Toronto Integrated Market Enforcement Team; <strong>Anna K. Markiewicz<\/strong> of Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP; <strong>Cullen Price<\/strong>, general counsel\u2019s department, OSC; <strong>Carolyn Slon<\/strong>, governance and tribunal secretariat, OSC; <strong>Ljiljana Stanic<\/strong> of McCarthy T\u00e9trault LLP; <strong>Johanna Superina<\/strong>, enforcement, OSC; <strong>Lauren Tomasich<\/strong> of Osler, Hoskin &amp; Harcourt LLP; <strong>Natalia Vandervoort<\/strong> of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP; <strong>Stephanie Voudouris<\/strong> of Cassels Brock &amp; Blackwell LLP; and <strong>Jonathan Wansbrough<\/strong> of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\">\n<div class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_section\">The B.C. Securities Commission has appointed two new commissioners to its board.\u00a0<b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Noordin Nanji<\/b> was a partner at Stikeman Elliott LLP for more than 12 years before retiring in 2022. Before that, he spent 11 years at Ballard Power Systems in executive roles, and was also a partner at Lang Michener LLP for a decade. <b data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Doug Seppala<\/b> retired in 2019 from DuMoulin Black LLP, which he joined in 1990. He was a partner and managing partner focused on private and public debt and equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions, board governance and shareholder disputes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>In memoriam<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Hunkin<\/strong>, former president and CEO of CIBC from 1999 to 2005, died this week. He spent 36 years with the bank and is remembered for his leadership in CIBC\u2019s acquisition of Merrill Lynch\u2019s Canadian brokerage business and for strengthening the bank\u2019s position in wealth management. He was also a philanthropist who helped advance education and health care through charitable contributions, including in Nova Scotia, where he retired.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scott Stennett<\/strong>, the vice-chair of Richardson Wealth Ltd., died Dec. 23, 2024 after battling cancer. Stennett had three decades of experience in financial services, including 11 years as chief operating officer of the firm. He is remembered as one of the company\u2019s longest-serving and most valued employees. \u201cHis loyalty to the company he helped build and grow for 20 years was unwavering,\u201d the company said in a statement on LinkedIn. \u201cHis influence is deeply rooted in our company, our offices, our meeting rooms and our hearts.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"c-scrollbar__hider\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"c-scrollbar__child\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"c-virtual_list__scroll_container\" role=\"list\">\n<div id=\"1736544910.501699\" class=\"c-virtual_list__item\" role=\"listitem\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__background c-message_kit__background--hovered p-message_pane_message__message c-message_kit__message p-message_pane_message__message--last\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__hover c-message_kit__hover--hovered\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__actions c-message_kit__actions--default\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__gutter__right\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n<div class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\">\n<p><em>If you know of other people moves in the financial industry and\/or would like us to consider your announcement, email Alisha Hiyate at <a href=\"mailto:alisha.h@newcom.ca\">alisha.h@newcom.ca<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvest ETFs brings on new talent; industry marks passing of Richardson Wealth vice-chair and former CIBC CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186574,"featured_media":491416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2312,2318,2354],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[5335,10920,18649,50751],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500065,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500038\/revisions\/500065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500038"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=500038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}