2024 Thinkers
We are honoured to have the support of these important thought leaders and Canadian captains of industry representing a wide cross-section of the financial services ecosystem. These “thinkers” are participating in a morning roundtable discussion at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto that will help inform the policy recommendations that come out of this event as well as the discussion themes for the keynote panel. The recommendations will be published as an addendum to the whitepaper. Many of the participating organizations will be available for discussion in the networking reception after the keynote panel.
Dr. Ernest Addison
Board Chair & Governor, Bank of Ghana
Raman Rai
Managing Partner, Financial Services, Deloitte Canada
Nicole Foster
Global Head of AI Public Policy, Amazon
Jeremy Wilmot
President & Chief Executive Officer, Interac Corp.
Ramesh Siromani
EVP, Cards, Payments & Transformation, Royal Bank of Canada
Julien Brazeau
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Finance Canada
Jordan Jacobs
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Radical Ventures. Co-Founder of Layer 6 and the Vector Institute for AI; Director CIFAR; founding investor and board director of Cohere
Aidan Gomez
CEO & Co-founder, Cohere
Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
former Vice Chairman, Standard Chartered Bank Group and Research Associate, Centre for Financial History, Cambridge University. Former Chair, Policy Committee, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Hon. David Lametti
Counsel, Fasken. Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General or Canada. Former Professor of Law at McGill
James Hicks
President and CEO, Moneris
Andrew Kriegler
CEO & President, Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)
Edward Kholodenko
President & CEO, Questrade Financial Group
Ron Morrow
Executive Director of Payments Supervision & Oversight, Bank of Canada
Lucas Matheson
CEO (Canada), Coinbase
Isaiah Jackson
Author, Bitcoin and Black America
Hon. Lisa Raitt
Vice-Chair Global Investment Banking, CIBC Capital Markets
Tony Gaffney
President & CEO, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Jas Jaaj
Managing Director AI, Deloitte
Neal Baumann
Partner, Global Financial Services Industry Leader, Deloitte
Jessica Oliver
Government Relations, Wealthsimple
Andrew Caprara
President & CEO, Softchoice
David MacNaughton
President, Palantir Canada
Bob Blainey
RBC Fellow, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Royal Bank of Canada
Aisha Greene
AI Paper Principal Author. Director, Generative AI & Senior Manager, Deloitte AI Institute Canada
Abraham A Tachijan
Director, PWC Canada
Tanya Woods
Head of Government, Regulatory Affairs & Policy Counsel, Questrade
Faryar Shirzad
Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase
Scott McDonald
Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. President, The Future of Money
Dr. Supriya Syal
Deputy Commissioner, Research, Policy & Education, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Francis Mensah
CFO, Royal Canadian Mint
Matt Goulet
CEO, Sturdy Exchange (NFT)
Daniel Eberhard
Founder and CEO, KOHO
Michael Abbott
Head of Global Banking, Accenture
Anthony G. Ostler
CEO & President, Canadian Banking Association
Mark A Entwistle
Managing Director, Privus Capital, former Ambassador of Canada to Cuba
Saba Shariff
SVP, Chief Strategy, Product & Innovation, Symcor
Mathew Mehrotra
Chief Digital Officer & Head of Canadian Products, BMO
Anthony Di Iorio
Co-Founder, Ethereum
Michael Kearns
Amazon Scholar, Responsible AI. Author of The Ethical Algorithm. Professor, University of Pennsylvania.
Francisco Rivadeneyra
Director, CBDC, FinTech Policy & Research, Bank of Canada
Parna Sabet-Stephenson
Partner, Leader of Financial Services & Technology (FSxT), Gowling WLG
Emma Todd
CEO, MMH Group
Dante Mossi
Former Executive President, Central American Bank for Economic Integration
José Manuel Marques
Director Financial Innovation & Market Infastructures, Banco de España
Eric Richmond
General Counsel & Head of Business Development, Shakepay
Shannon Katschilo
Country Manager and Head of Canada, Snowflake
Andrew D'Souza
Chairman & Co-Founder, Clearco
Alan Bernstein
Executive Director, Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)
Rizwan Khalfan
EVP, Chief Digital & Payments Officer, TD Bank Group
Jaron Waldman
Chief Product Officer, Cohere
Paul Samson
President, Centre for International Governance Innovation
Neil Parmenter
Senior Vice President & National Lead, Hill & Knowlton
Gillian Riley
President & CEO, Tangerine
Peter Loewen
Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Grant Vingoe
CEO, Ontario Securities Commission
Shawn Van Raay
Chief Information Officer, Payments Canada
Matt Linton
CEO & Founder, Rowbot
Dean Skurka
President and CEO, WonderFi
Michelle Beyo
CEO & Founder, Finavator Inc.
Fabrio Comparelli
Digital Artist, Fabdream
Marc-Etienne Ouimette
Principal, AWS Global AI Public Policy.
Eyal Sivan
GM of North America, Ozone API, “Mr. Open Banking”
Jonathan Klein
Chief Technology Officer, KOHO
Alex Tapscott
Author, Web3. Co-Founder, Blockchain Research Institute. Managing Director, Ninepoint Partners
Heather Kay
Head of Financial Services Public Policy Canada, Amazon Web Services
Federico Berruti
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Miklos Dietz
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company
Kwadwo Adjepong-Boateng
Public Policy Strategist and Consultant
John Mulvihill
President, Mulvihill Capital
Kristina Logue
Chief Financial Officer, Payments Canada
Mathieu Staniulis
Vice-President Digital & Personal Services Chief Transformation Officer, Desjardins
Shannon Bent
Managing Director, Othership
Jennifer Karkula
Chief of Staff, MMH Group
Alana Scotchmer
Partner, Financial Services Regulations, Gowling WLG
John Lancefield
Private Equity Investor, Delmar Capital
Naïm Antaki
Partner, Co-Leader of Artificial Intelligence Group, Gowling WLG
Holger Kormann
President & Chief Executive Officer, Symcor
Sam Ishak
CIO, FCT
Andrew O'Born
President, TPH
Romana Mizdrak
Managing Director, Risk Quantification Division, OSFI
Gary Schwartz
CEO & President, Canadian Lenders Association
Miguel Diaz
Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Bank for International Settlements – Basel, Switzerland
Deval Pandya
Vice-President of AI Engineering, Vector Institute
Dariush Shoja
Vice President and Corporate CIO, Sun Life
Jay Dorey
Head of Corporate Affairs, Visa
Hwan Kim
Partner, Financial Services Strategy & Innovation, Deloitte
Michael Kousaie
Vice-President Strategy, Partnerships & Corporate Development, Toronto Stock Exchange
Jonathan Rosenbluth
Director of Product, Cohere
Gregory Smith
Senior Partner, Financial Services, Kyndrl
Andrew Hall
VP, Data Science & Management, Moneris
Ronnie Sanders
Digital Data & Analytics, RBC
Abraham Theodore
Head of Product, NDAX
Andrei Poliakov
CEO & Founder, APX Lending
Debbie Gamble
Group Head and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Interac
Ethan Buchman
Co-founder, Cosmos; CEO, Informal Systems
Ozge Yeloglu
VP, Advanced Analytics and AI, CIBC
Kobena Acquaah-Harrison
Cultural Development Director, Producer & Composer, Abandze Embassy
2022 Thinkers
Peter Loewen
Director, Munk School
Neil McLaughlin
Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, Royal Bank of Canada
Jaime Leverton
CEO, Hut 8
Max Bardon
Head of Worldwide Payments, Amazon
Edward Kholodenko
CEO & Founder, Questrade
Tamara Haasen
President, Input Output Global (Cardano)
Anthony Di Iorio
Founder & CEO, Decentral Inc. & Jaxx / Co-Founder Ethereum
Jay Rajarathinam
Chief Operating Officer, TMX Group
John Nicola
CEO & Founder, Nicola Wealth
Timothy Lane
Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada
Andrew Chau
CEO and Co-Founder, Neo Financial
Emma Todd
Founder & CEO, MMH Technology Group
Eric Gales
Country Manager, Amazon Web Services Canada
Matt Goulet
CEO, Sturdy Exchange (NFT)
Tammy Chiasson
President, Connected
Rizwan Khalfan
EVP, Chief Digital & Payments Officer, TD Bank Group
Mike Katchen
CEO & Founder, Wealthsimple
Bilal Khan
Canadian Managing Director, Snowflake
Neil Parmenter
Chief Counsel, Global Public Affairs
Lawrence Truong
CEO, Binance Canada
Kevin Strain
President & CEO, Sun Life
Patricia Nielsen
Sales Leader, Startups AWS
COZMIC CAT
House Music Producer, DJ
Dan Breznitz
Munk Chair in Innovation Studies and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School
Daniel Munro
Fellow & Whitepaper Author, Munk School
Erica Salinas
Blockchain Technical Leader, Amazon
Mat Mehrotra
Chief Digital Officer, P&BB and Wealth, BMO
Sully Malaeb Proulx
Contemporary Dancer, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre
Mark O’Connell
President & CEO, Interac
Jeff Adamson
Chief Merchant Officer and Co-Founder, Neo Financial
Larissa De Lima
Senior Fellow, Oliver Wyman Forum
Dan Rees
Group Head, Canadian Banking, Scotiabank
Alex Tapscott
Co-Founder BRI & Ninepoint Digital Asset Group, Blockchain Research Institute
Harold Spencer Jr.
Staff Platform Engineer, Brave Software Inc.
Carlos Acevedo
Senior Director of Sales, Regional Lead Latam, Brave Software Inc.
Michael Abbott
Head of Global Banking, Accenture
Brian Hayes
Financial Services Industry Leader, VMware
Lynn Gummow
Vice President, Legal, Strategy & Operations, Cardano (ADA)
Chris Sweetland
Senior Vice-President, Payments Strategy & Transformation, CIBC
Cyrielle Chiron
Chief Strategy Officer, Payments Canada
Miklós Dietz
Senior Partner and Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company Canada
Guy Vigeant
President, Canada, CGI
Connie Ryan
Regional Vice President, Global Banking, Tanium
William Keliehor
Chief Commercial Officer, Interac Corp
Tom Ross
Country Manager, Checkmarx
Alex Ma
Senior Counsel, Binance Canada
Sandro Knöpfel
Head of Financial & Regulated Institutions, Cardano (ADA)