Mark Wiseman directs the team managing all of the investment activities of the CPP Investment Board.  The CPP Investment Board invests the $125 billion CPP reserve fund to help secure future pensions of 17 million Canadians.  The Investment activities of the CPP Investment Board consists of three functional departments – Public Market Investments, Private Investments, and Real Estate Investments.  In total, these departments comprise of over 300 professionals based in Toronto, London and Hong Kong.  Prior to his current role, Mr. Wiseman headed the Private Investments department.

Prior to joining the CPP Investment Board in June 2005, Mr. Wiseman was responsible for the private equity fund and co-investment program at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.  Previously, Mr. Wiseman was an officer with Harrowston Inc., a publicly traded Canadian merchant bank and a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell, practicing in New York and Paris.  He also served as a law clerk to Madam Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada.

From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Wiseman was Chairman of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, a non-profit organization committed to serving limited partner investors in the global private equity industry. The ILPA’s 200 members comprise the leading corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations, insurance companies and other institutional investors in private equity.

Mr. Wiseman is also the past Chairman of Youth Without Shelter, an emergency shelter for homeless youth, and a member of the board of several not-for-profit organizations. He also serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations, including the Board of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and the Board of Right to Play International, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of disadvantaged children using the power of sport and play for developing health and peace.  He is also on the advisory board of the Capital Markets Institute at the University of Toronto.

Mr. Wiseman holds a BA from Queen’s University and a law degree and MBA from the University of Toronto. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University where he obtained a masters degree in law and is a certified member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.  In 2006, he was named to Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.

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