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Toronto, ON-based Pierre Lavallee as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Partnerships
About the Company
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is a professional investment management organization with a critical purpose – to help provide a foundation upon which Canadians build financial security in retirement. We invest the assets of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). We invest those assets not currently needed by the CPP to pay pension, disability and survivor benefits. CPPIB is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, New York, and Sao Paulo. We invest in public equities, private equities, bonds, real estate, infrastructure and other areas. The Fund`s current assets total over $200 billion, ranking us among the 10 largest retirement funds in the world. Our assets are projected to reach $300 billion by 2020, $500 billion by 2030, and more than $1 trillion by 2045.
About the Person
Pierre leads the Investment Partnerships team, which includes investment in private equity funds and secondaries, co-investments, direct private equity in Asia, public market investments through external managers and thematic investing. Pierre joined the CPP Investment Board in April 2012, as Vice-President and Head of Funds & Secondaries in the Private Investments department. He was Senior Managing Director & Chief Talent Officer from March 2013 to November 2015, and was appointed to his current position in January 2015. Prior to joining CPPIB, Pierre was the Executive Vice President, Reitmans (Canada) Limited, based in Montreal. Before joining Reitmans, he spent over 18 years with Bain & Company in Toronto. Pierre led Bain`s Canadian practice in retail, telecom and private equity. He also served as Managing Partner for Bain & Co. Canada and served on the firm`s Operating Committee for several years. Before Bain, Pierre spent 5 years with the Government of Canada as a Trade Commissioner in the Department of External Affairs and International Trade, serving in Ottawa and Japan. Pierre holds a Bachelor Social Sciences (Hon. Economics; summa cum laude; Gold Medal) and an M.A. (Economics) from the University of Ottawa.
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