Board of Directors
Steve Orsini, Chair, OFA Board
Deputy Minister of Finance and Secretary of Treasury Board.
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: December 17,
2011 (Pursuant to the
Capital Investment Plan Act, 1993, the Deputy Minister of
Finance is the Chair of the OFA Board of Directors.).
Steve was previously Deputy Minister of Revenue as well as Associate
Deputy Minister, Office of Taxation, Agencies and Pensions in the
Ministry of Finance. Steve played a leadership role in supporting
the government’s tax, benefits and pension reform agenda over the
past few years.
Prior to returning to the Ministry of Finance in 2005, Steve held a
number of positions at the Ontario Hospital Association, including
Vice-President of Policy and Public Affairs.
Steve has extensive experience in the Ontario Public Service, having
worked in the former Ministry of Treasury and Economics, the Service
Sector Secretariat, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade,
and the Ontario Development Corporation.
Steve has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Urban and Regional Planning
and a Masters in Environmental Studies (Economic Development). He
has also completed the Canadian Securities Course, two years of the
CICA In-Depth Tax Course, and the Harvard University Health Care
Leadership Program.
Mario Ferrara, Vice-Chair, OFA Board
Committees: Audit & Risk Management Committee, Member
Human Resources Committee, Member
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: April 2005
End of Current Term: May 2014
Before his appointment to the OFA Board, Mario was Managing Director
and Head of the Government Finance Group at Scotia Capital in
Toronto. The Group provided a wide range of financial advice and
executed financing transactions for the firm’s government and
government-related clients.
Mario’s investment management experience includes senior positions
in the private and public sector. As Vice-President, Investments at
E-L Financial Corporation, he was head of the investment group with
direct responsibility for managing the fixed-income portfolios of
the company’s life and casualty insurance subsidiaries. Prior to
joining E-L Financial, Mario spent 12 years at Ontario Hydro in a
number of finance-related positions including portfolio manager of
the fixed-income assets of the Ontario Hydro Pension Plan. Later at
Ontario Hydro, he was Assistant Treasurer-Corporate with
responsibility for management, development and execution of funding
plans, investor relations and corporate insurance.
Mario holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Business
Administration from McMaster University.
Gadi Mayman, Chief Executive Officer, OFA
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: August 2000
End of Current Term: July 2014
As CEO of the OFA, Gadi is responsible for the Province’s borrowing
and debt management strategy, corporate and electricity finance
projects, and its banking and capital markets relationships. He is
also CEO and Vice-Chair of OEFC.
Prior to joining the Ontario Ministry of Finance, Gadi worked at the
Export Development Corporation in Ottawa and in the International
Division of the TD Bank. He received a Bachelor of Applied Science
in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1981,
and a Master of Business Administration from the University of
Western Ontario in 1988.
Gadi is on the boards of Infrastructure Ontario and the Ontario
Capital Growth Corporation, and is Co-Chair of the Joint Nuclear
Funds Investment Committee, a joint OFA and OPG Committee.
John M. Beck
Committee: Audit & Risk Management Committee, Member
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: January 2011
End of Current Term: January 2014
John is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aecon Group
Inc., Canada’s largest publicly traded construction and
infrastructure development company. Aecon is a leader in providing
services to private and public sector clients throughout Canada and
internationally.
John began his career in 1963, after graduating from civil
engineering at Montreal’s McGill University. In 1971, his company
went public and John embarked on a strategy of mergers and
acquisitions as well as rapid organic growth.
John and Aecon are innovators in terms of public-private
partnerships and design-build-finance initiatives, and have
successfully completed projects over the years in more than a dozen
countries. In November 2008, John was cited by The Financial Post
Magazine’s “CEO Scorecard”, as one of the top 20 most accomplished
CEO’s in Canada.
John is an active member of the business community. He was
previously the Chairman of the Board of the Ontario Power Authority,
a government agency with responsibility for planning and procuring
all of the province’s power needs for the next 20 years. He has also
served on a number of non-profit boards involved in charities,
health, education and the arts.
Lorraine Bell
Committees: Audit & Risk Management Committee, Member
Human Resources Committee, Member
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: October 2005
End of Current Term: January 2015
In addition to her OFA board appointment, Lorraine is also a
Director, Chair of the Audit Committee, and member of the Governance
Committee for Brookfield Real Estate Services Fund. She is also a
Director and member of the Audit Committee of IBI Group. Lorraine
has many years of experience in capital markets and in particular,
derivatives. She was a Vice-President and Director with General Re
Financial Products Canada (GRFP), a derivatives organization. Prior
to joining GRFP, she worked as a financial consultant, and was at a
number of corporations including Prudential Global Funding and
Citibank Canada. Before Citibank Canada, Lorraine was with Touche
Ross & Co (now Deloitte & Touche) as a member of the audit group and
she obtained her CA designation at that time.
She is an active volunteer and past Board member of a number of
charitable organizations in Ontario. Lorraine is also a member of
the Institute of Corporate Directors and a Director of the
Associates of the University of Toronto, Inc.
Angela Holtham
Committee: Audit & Risk Management Committee, Chair
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: February 2011
End of Current Term: February 2014
Angela recently retired after 8 years as the Vice President,
Finance, and CFO of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Prior
to that, she held a number of positions in both the for-profit and
not-for-profit sectors, including 20 years with Nabisco Canada, the
last five of which she spent as Senior Vice President and CFO.
Angela holds a Master of Business Administration from the University
of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of
Waterloo. She is a Certified Management Accountant and was awarded
the prestigious FCMA designation for her accomplishments in the
community, the accounting profession, and the workplace.
Angela has held a number of Board positions including chair of the
Board of CMA Ontario, and Board Director of Sprinkles Global Health
Initiative.
Phil Howell
Committee: Audit & Risk Management Committee, Member
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: June 2012
End of Current Term: June 2015
Phil was appointed the Chief Executive Officer and Superintendent,
Financial Services Commission of Ontario effective August 19, 2009.
Previously, Phil served as the Deputy Minister of Economic
Development for the Ontario government. Prior to that appointment,
he was the Deputy Minister of Tourism. He moved to Tourism from the
Ministry of Finance where he was the Associate Deputy Minister of
Finance, responsible for Treasury Board.
Trained as an economist with postgraduate training from the London
School of Economics and the University of Toronto, Phil’s career has
spanned over thirty years in both the public and private sectors
beginning with the Bank of Canada. His Ontario Public Service (OPS)
career began in the Economic Policy Branch in the former Ministry of
Treasury, Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs.
He left the OPS in the mid-1980s and during the following several
years worked with a major Canadian brokerage house, the Conference
Board of Canada and a chartered bank. Phil returned to the OPS as
director of the Industrial Policy Branch, Ministry of Industry,
Trade and Technology where he spent several interesting and
challenging years before returning to the Ministry of Finance as
director of the Taxation Policy Branch in 1999. Subsequently, he
served as the ADM of the Office of Economic Policy and the Chief
Economist for the Province.
Richard J. Kostoff
Committee: Human Resources Committee, Vice-Chair
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: June 2007
End of Current Term: June 2013
Richard is the founder and Chair of Temple Rock Holdings Inc., an
active investment interest.
Richard is a former Deputy Chair of TD Securities Inc. Over the
course of his career his senior management responsibilities have
included fixed income sales and trading, derivative marketing and
equity and debt capital markets origination. Richard is also a
current board member of the OCAD University Foundation Board and the
Chair of Theatrefront, a non-profit group. Additional appointments
include the advisory board of CommunityLend and FemMed.
Richard has advised a number of government and corporate entities
including GMP Inc., Infrastructure Ontario, GE Capital Canada, OP
Trust, the Hospital for Sick Children and Theralase Technologies
Inc.
Vincenza Sera
Committee: Audit & Risk Management Committee, Vice Chair
Date of Initial Appointment to OFA Board of Directors: February 2011
End of Current Term: February 2014
Vincenza has been Chair of the Ontario Pension Board since 2007
having served as a board member since 2004.
Vincenza is a former investment banker with 25 years expertise in
capital markets, corporate finance and corporate governance; she has
held senior positions with major Canadian firms, including National
Bank Financial and CIBC.
She holds a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from the
University of Toronto, and an Honours Business Administration
(Accounting) degree from the University of Windsor.
Vincenza has considerable experience on corporate and not-for-profit
boards and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors.