Appointee Biographies

DEBORAH OAKLEY

Debbie Oakley is Chair of the Provincial Judges Pension Board (PJPB) after previously serving as a member of the PJPB. She is currently closely involved in implementing the Plan redesign and plan governance reform initiatives. For several years, she held a variety of senior positions in the Ontario Government including with the Ministry of the Attorney General and with Management Board Secretariat, a central agency of government. More recently Ms. Oakley was for over a decade a senior executive with the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) where during her tenure, and among her many responsibilities, she led the reform of OMERS Governance. She currently sits as a member of the Board of Innocence Canada and of the Board of the Innocence Canada Foundation. Debbie is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors. She holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Toronto. She recently joined the University of Toronto Governing Council as a member of the Business Board.

GUS GATZIOS

Gus Gatzios has worked over 15 years in senior corporate and private market investment positions at OMERS Strategic Investments. Most recently he was the President of Rose water Global, a Global Strategic Investment Alliance for Infrastructure Investments. He also worked at Bell Canada for over 13 years in corporate planning and budgeting, capital investments and asset management. He is currently an angel investor with keiretsu Forum, the largest global investment community of accredited private equity angel investors and he participates on the investment selection committee. He is a CPA and graduate of University of Toronto and Seneca College.

MARY PICARD

Mary Picard, of Toronto, is an Instructor of Pension Courses at Humber College. She is a former Lawyer at Dentons Canada LLP. Her community involvement includes serving as a Member of the Pension Plan Advisory Committee for the Accounting Standards Board of Canada.