{"id":18524,"date":"2020-05-29T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/iiroc-nominates-three-candidates-for-independent-director-positions-146475"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:00:10","slug":"iiroc-nominates-three-candidates-for-independent-director-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/iiroc-nominates-three-candidates-for-independent-director-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"IIROC nominates three candidates for independent director positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/123rf_Rawpixel_board-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"RF-Board\" title=\"IIROC nominates three candidates for independent director positions\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 29, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>&nbsp;is nominating three candidates for upcoming independent director positions on its board.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees \u2014 Malcolm Heins,&nbsp;Jennifer Newman and Laura Tamblyn Watts \u2014 will be subject to a formal election in September at the organization\u2019s annual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIIROC\u2019s board is confident that the nominees demonstrate a strong commitment to risk management, investor protection and an improved investor experience,\u201d said&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Allison<\/span>, the chairman of IIROC\u2019s board, in a press release. \u201cMr. Heins, Ms. Newman and Ms.&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Tamblyn Watts<\/span>&nbsp;have established themselves throughout their careers and advocacy work as strong champions for effective and responsive regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/nova-scotia-teachers-names-new-trustee-chair-145562\">Nova Scotia Teachers\u2019 names new trustee chair, OMERS promotes Ecclestone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heins, a lawyer, became the chief executive officer of the Law Society of Ontario in 2001. In 2015, he became chair of the Ontario Expert Committee to Consider Policy Alternatives for the Regulation of Financial Advisory and Financial Planning Services. He\u2019s currently a member of the Investor Advisory Panel for the&nbsp;Ontario Securities Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Newman is currently the senior managing director for real estate operations and special projects at the Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Tamblyn Watts is also a lawyer. In addition, she\u2019s president and chief executive officer of&nbsp;seniors\u2019 advocacy and policy group CanAge, as well as a member of the OSC\u2019s task force on seniors. Previously, she was the CARP\u2019s chief public policy officer and a board member of&nbsp;Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments.<\/p>\n<p>The new directors will succeed&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Edward Iacobucci<\/span>,&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">James Donegan<\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Catherine Smith as their terms are drawing to a close.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/omers-names-new-coo-chief-legal-and-corporate-affairs-officers-145267\">OMERS names new COO, chief legal, corporate affairs officer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/iiroc-nominates-three-candidates-for-independent-director-positions-146475\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 29, 2020 The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;is nominating three candidates for upcoming independent director positions on its board. The nominees \u2014 Malcolm Heins,&nbsp;Jennifer Newman and Laura Tamblyn Watts \u2014 will be subject&#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\/18524"}],"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=18524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}