William S. Rice

Chair, Alberta Securities Commission
Mr. Rice is currently Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the Alberta Securities Commission.  Prior to his joining the Alberta Securities Commission on July 18, 2005, Mr. Rice was a partner of the Bennett Jones LLP law firm in Calgary. During the five years prior to his appointment to the Alberta Securities Commission, Mr. Rice served as the firm’s national managing partner. He graduated from Bishop’s University with a BA in 1968 and from Osgoode Hall Law School with an LLB in 1972.  While at Bennett Jones, Mr Rice practised as a member of the litigation bar from 1974 until 1979 and as a securities law specialist thereafter.  Mr. Rice served as a member and chair of a number of companies, both public and private, over a period of some 15 years.

Alberta Securities Commission
Ste. 400 - 300, 5th Avenue SW
Calgary, AB   T2P 3C4

Brenda Leong

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, British Columbia Securities Commission
Prior to this appointment, Ms. Leong was the chief operating and chief enforcement officer of the BCSC, responsible for overseeing the financial and administrative affairs of the commission. She has successfully initiated and delivered results for all of the BCSC’s operating divisions, implemented significant service enhancements, and built strong relations with securities regulators in other provinces through the Canadian Securities Administrators. Brenda Leong holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the University of Alberta, Edmonton and a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto. Before joining the Commission, she practiced corporate and securities law in Vancouver. 

British Columbia Securities Commission
P.O. Box 10142, Pacific Centre
701 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC   V7Y 1L2

Don Murray

Chair, Manitoba Securities Commission
Mr. Murray graduated from the University of Manitoba Law School in 1976 and practiced law for 20 years, most recently with McJannet Rich in general commercial practice, including securities and limited partnership work.  He was appointed to The Manitoba Securities Commission as a part-time Commissioner in 1993 and became Vice-Chair in 1994. In December 1997, Mr. Murray accepted an appointment as the Chair of the Commission. As Chair, he represents the Commission with the Canadian Securities Administrators and is a member of the Policy Coordination Committee of the CSA. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the North American Securities Administrators based in Washington, DC.

Manitoba Securities Commission
500 - 400 St. Mary Avenue
Winnipeg, MB  R3C 4K5

David G. Barry

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, New Brunswick Securities Commission
Mr. Barry is the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of the New Brunswick Securities Commission having assumed that position on July 1st, 2009. Prior to joining the Commission he was counsel to the law firm of Barry Spalding in Saint John and was a senior partner in the firm from its inception in 1981 until 2008. Mr. Barry was a nationally recognized practitioner of business law with special expertise in corporate finance and securities, taxation, information technology and privacy.

Mr. Barry received his B.Sc. (Honours) in Mathematics from Saint Francis Xavier University in 1966 and his M.Sc. (Computer Science) from the University of Alberta in 1968. While lecturing in Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick, he entered law school and obtained his LL.B in 1972, and was admitted to the bar that same year. He was appointed Queens Counsel in 1991.

An active member of the Canadian Bar Association, Mr. Barry is also a member of the Saint John Law Society, the Law Society of New Brunswick, the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the Canadian Tax Foundation, and is an associate member of the American Bar Association. He served on the councils of the Law Society of New Brunswick and the Canadian Bar Association - New Brunswick Branch and the national organization, and is a past governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and a former director of CanLII, an electronic publisher of legal materials established by the Canadian legal profession.

Community has played an important role throughout his career and private life. Mr. Barry has been active as : President of the Saint John Board of Trade; Chair of Enterprise Saint John, the community economic and development agency; President of the New Brunswick Museum; Chair of Saint John Airport Inc., southern New Brunswick's regional airport; a director and governor of the United Way of Saint John; and President of the YM-YWCA Saint John.

New Brunswick Securities Commission
85 Charlotte Street, Suite 300
Saint John, NB  E2L 2J2

Douglas J. Connolly

Superintendent of Securities, Government Services of Newfoundland and Labrador
Mr. Connolly is the Director of the Financial Services Regulation Division and was appointed Superintendent of Securities in December 2009. He is also the Superintendent of Insurance, Superintendent of Real Estate and Registrar of Mortgage Brokers and has responsibility for the regulation of Prepaid Funeral Contract Sellers. 

Mr. Connolly started his Public Service career in 1977 and for the first nine years worked for the Auditor General for the Province. He has been involved in the regulation of the insurance industry since 1988 and in the regulation of the securities industry since 2002, initially as a part-time Commissioner with the Securities Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador until being appointed as Director of Securities in March 2004. With the elimination of the Securities Commission in 2005, Mr. Connolly was appointed Deputy Superintendent of Securities. 

Mr. Connolly obtained his Certified General Accountant designation in 1987.

Department of Government Services
Consumer & Commercial Affairs Branch
2nd Floor, West Block
Confederation Building
P.O. Box 8700
St. John's, NL  A1B 4J6

Gary MacDougall

Superintendent of Securities, Department of Justice
Government of Northwest Territories
Mr. MacDougall is the Superintendent of Securities for the Northwest Territories, appointed in 2008 under its new Securities Act.  Under the former Act, he was first appointed as Registrar of Securities in 1981, making him the longest serving executive member of the CSA.  As Director of Legal Registries, he is also the Inspector of Land Titles for the Northwest Territories and has overall responsibility for the Corporate Registries and Personal Property Registry.

Mr. MacDougall received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Guelph in 1976 and in 1979 obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1981 and the Northwest Territories Bar in 1982. He is also a member of the Canadian Conference of Land Titles Officials and Canadian Conference on Personal Property Security Law. 

Superintendent of Securities
Department of Justice
Government of the Northwest Territories
1st Floor Stuart M. Hodgson Building
5009 - 49 th Street
P.O. Box 1320
Yellowknife, NT   X1A 2L9

H. Leslie O’Brien

Chair, Nova Scotia Securities Commission
Mr. O’Brien is the Chairman of the Nova Scotia Securities Commission.  In this position he is the Chief Executive Officer of the Commission and has overall responsibility for its operations and its staff. Mr. O’Brien served as Vice-Chairman of the Commission from its creation in October, 1987, until November, 1995, and again from June, 2000 to November, 2002, when he became its Chair.

He received degrees in Commerce and Law from Dalhousie University and completed post graduate work at the University of Chicago Law School where he received the LLM degree.  

He retired from the Faculty of Law of Dalhousie University in 1998 following a 30 year career during which he taught and researched in the Corporate Law, Securities Law, Taxation, Commercial Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions areas. He also served as Associate Dean of the law school. Throughout his teaching career he received a number of teaching awards and published in the business law area.

A member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society since 1968 Mr. O’Brien has practiced with a large Toronto law firm and served as Counsel to Atlantic Canada’s largest law firm for several years.   He was a awarded the Q.C. designation in 1984.

From 1996 to 2000, Mr. O’Brien served as a public governor of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.

Nova Scotia Securities Commission
Joseph Howe Building
2nd Floor, 1690 Hollis Street
P.O. Box 458
Halifax, NS  B3J 2P8 /
Courier: B3J 3J9

Louis Arki

Superintendent of Securities, Nunavut
Mr. Arki is currently the Superintendent of Securities and Director of the Legal Registries Division, Department of Justice, Government of Nunavut.

Mr. Arki was born in Europe and moved to Canada where he obtained his Bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Alberta and received his LL.B. from the University of Ottawa.  He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1982 and practiced in Ottawa till 1989 in the areas of litigation and administrative law, at all court levels including the Supreme Court of Canada.  He then held a variety of positions in the Ontario public service, including that of Counsel assigned to the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, until he joined the Legal Registries Division of the Department of Justice, Government of Nunavut in 2006. 

Mr. Arki is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Association of Corporate Law Administrators, NASAA and the Canadian Conference of Land titles Officials.

Superintendent of Securities
Department of Justice
Government of Nunavut
1st Floor, Brown Building
P.O. Box 1000 - Station 570
Iqaluit, NU   X0A 0H0

David Wilson

Chair, Ontario Securities Commission
Mr. Wilson became Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission on November 1, 2005, following an extensive 35-year career in Canada’s securities industry.

Prior to his appointment for a five-year term as OSC Chair, Mr. Wilson was Vice Chair of the Bank of Nova Scotia and Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Scotia Capital in Toronto. He was responsible for all of Scotiabank’s global wholesale banking activities, which included its corporate, institutional and government relationships on a global basis. Previously, Mr. Wilson held a variety of senior management positions with Scotiabank in the areas of investment banking, retail brokerage and corporate finance.

During his career, Mr. Wilson has made positive contributions to the development of the regulatory system in Ontario and across Canada. He served on the provincial government’s Five Year Review Committee, which reviewed the content of the Securities Act. Mr. Wilson was Chairman of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA), a national self-regulatory organization (SRO) and representative of the securities industry, in 1996-1997. In addition, he was a founding Director of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA), a SRO for the mutual fund industry, from 1997 to 1998.

Mr. Wilson was educated at the University of Toronto (B.Comm.) and York University (MBA). He began his career as a financial analyst and in 1971 joined McLeod Young Weir, a predecessor firm to Scotia Capital.

Ontario Securities Commission
Box 55
Suite 1903 - 20 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON   M5H 3S8

Katharine Tummon

Superintendent of Securities
Consumer, Corporate and Insurance Services
Office of the Attorney General
Prince Edward Island
Katharine Tummon has been the Director of the Consumer, Corporate and Insurance Services Division of Prince Edward Island’s Office of the Attorney General since March, 2007. This Division is responsible for the administration of the PEI Securities Act. Prior to her appointment as Director, Ms. Tummon held the position of Corporate Counsel to the Division for 5 years. 

Ms. Tummon is a law graduate of the University of Toronto and holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy. Prior to moving to PEI, she was Legal Counsel to the government of the Northwest Territories.

Securities Office
Consumer, Corporate and Insurance Services Division
Office of the Attorney General
95 Rochford Street, P.O. Box 2000
Charlottetown, PE   C1A 7N8

Jean St-Gelais

President and Chief Executive Officer, Autorité des marchés financiers
Jean St-Gelais is an economist by training, having completed his studies at Université Laval in Québec and Queen’s University in Ontario. Mr. St-Gelais began his career in Ottawa in 1982 as Research Assistant at the Bank of Canada. Thereafter, he held various positions within the Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy and Federal-Provincial Relations Sectors of the Québec Department of Finance. 

In 1996, he was Assistant Deputy Minister and in 1998, served as Associate Deputy Minister for Fiscal and Budgetary Policy and Financial Institutions. 

In 2001, Jean St-Gelais was appointed to the highest position in the public administration as Secretary General and Clerk of the Conseil exécutif of the Government of Québec. 

Mr. St-Gelais has been the President and Chief executive officer of the Autorité des marchés financiers since September 2003 and, as part of his functions, has been Chair of the Canadian Securities Administrators since April 2005.

Autorité des marchés financiers
800, Square Victoria, 22e étage
C.P. 246, Tour de la Bourse
Montréal, QC   H4Z 1G3

Dave Wild

Chair, Saskatchewan Financial Services Commission
Mr. Wild was appointed as Chair of the Securities Commission in August 2001.  He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Services Commission on February 1, 2003.  He is also the Superintendent of Pensions and responsible for the administration of The Pensions Benefits Act in Saskatchewan.  Mr. Wild has significant experience as a pension plan administrator in the public sector in Saskatchewan.  He has also worked as an asset management consultant providing investment advice to pension plans, and was involved in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Pension Plan.

Mr. Wild is an active member of the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities and the Joint Forum of Financial Market Regulators. 

Saskatchewan Financial Services Commission
6th Floor 1919 Saskatchewan Drive
Regina, SK   S4P 3V7

Fred Pretorius

Superintendent of Securities, Yukon
Mr. Pretorius studied law at the North-West University in South Africa and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL B) in 1990. He was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Transvaal Provincial Division) in 1993 and also became a member of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces of South Africa. He practised law as an attorney in the law firm of L’Ange, De Waal & Freysen in Klerksdorp from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, he became legal adviser of Sanlam Life Insurance Limited. He was admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa (Cape of Good Hope Division) in 1999. He successfully completed the professional examinations of the Institute of Life and Pension Advisers in South Africa and qualified as Certified Financial Planner of the Financial Planning Institute of South Africa (affiliated with the FPSB of the US of America) and was a member of the Institute from 2000 – 2005. In 2004, he acquired a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and also became involved as an assistant examiner of the Financial Planning Institute’s professional examinations. He served on several steering committees (business chamber, body corporate, cultural and educational organizations) during his career.

He relocated to Canada during 2007 and joined the Government of Yukon during August 2007. He subsequently became the Director of Corporate Affairs during February 2008 and he is also the Superintendent of Securities in Yukon.

Superintendent of Securities
Community Services
PO Box 2703
Whitehorse, YT Y1A 3C6
Courier: 2130 Second Avenue, 3rd Floor
Whitehorse, YT   Y1A 5H6

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CSA SECRETARIAT
Tour de la Bourse
800, Square Victoria
Suite 4130
Montreal Quebec H4Z 1J2