{"id":16489,"date":"2019-08-22T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/optrust-appoints-peter-lindley-as-ceo-134625"},"modified":"2019-08-22T17:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:30:07","slug":"optrust-appoints-peter-lindley-as-president-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/08\/22\/optrust-appoints-peter-lindley-as-president-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"OPTrust appoints Peter Lindley as president and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/OPTrust.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"OPTrust appoints Peter Lindley as president and CEO\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 22, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>The OPSEU Pension Trust is appointing Peter Lindley as its president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 16, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"xn-person\">Peter Lindley<\/span>&nbsp;brings deep experience in investing to this role and the board is pleased to have someone of his expertise and calibre join OPTrust,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Michael Grimaldi<\/span>, chair of the OPTrust board of trustees, in a press release. \u201cAs a pension management organization, we exist to serve our members, and we are confident our members will continue to be in excellent hands under Peter\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/hugh-oreilly-stepping-down-from-optrust-127334\">Hugh O\u2019Reilly stepping down from OPTrust<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Lindley was most recently the president and head of investments at State Street Global Advisors Ltd., where he was responsible for the Canadian business strategy and $50 billion in assets under management. Prior to that role, he held senior roles at Deutsche Bank and CIBC World Markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to join an organization that creates retirement security for so many people and I look forward to building on OPTrust\u2019s legacy of delivering excellent results for the plan\u2019s members,\u201d said&nbsp;Lindley.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment follows Hugh O\u2019Reilly\u2019s resignation from the role&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/hugh-oreilly-stepping-down-from-optrust-127334\">in March 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/optrust-appoints-peter-lindley-as-ceo-134625\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;August 22, 2019 The OPSEU Pension Trust is appointing Peter Lindley as its president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 16, 2019. \u201cPeter Lindley&nbsp;brings deep experience in investing to this role and the board&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}