Speaker Details
Mark Wiseman
Senior Vice President, Private Investments, Canadian Public Pension Investment Board
Mark Wiseman directs the team managing the private investment activities of the CPP Investment Board. The CPP Investment Board invests the $120 billion CPP reserve fund to help secure future pensions of 16 million Canadians. Today, the Private Investments Department of the CPP Investment Board has approximately $14 billion invested in private equity and infrastructure investments.
Prior to joining the CPP Investment Board in June 2005, Mr. Wiseman was responsible for the private equity fund and co-investment program at the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. Previously, Mr. Wiseman was an officer with Harrowston Inc., a publicly traded Canadian merchant bank and a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, practicing in New York and Paris. He also served as a law clerk to Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada.
From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Wiseman was Chairman of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, a non-profit organization committed to serving limited partner investors in the global private equity industry. The ILPAs 175 members comprise the leading corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations, insurance companies and other institutional investors in private equity.
Mr. Wiseman is also the past Chairman of Youth Without Shelter, an emergency shelter for homeless youth, and a member of the board of several not-for-profit organizations, including SmartRisk, an organization dedicated to preventing injuries among Canadian youth. He also serves on the Business Development Board of Torontos Mount Sinai Hospital and is on the advisory board of the Capital Markets Institute at the University of Toronto.
Mr. Wiseman holds a BA from Queens University and a law degree and MBA from the University of Toronto. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University where he obtained a masters degree in law and is a certified member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors. In 2006, he was named to Canadas Top 40 Under 40.
