Chair, Brookfield Asset Management

Head of Transition Investing

Mark Carney is the Chair of Brookfield Asset Management. He is also the Head of Transition Investing and in this role, he is focused on the development of products for investors that will combine positive social and environmental outcomes with strong risk-adjusted returns. Mr. Carney is an economist and banker who served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, and prior to that as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 until 2013. He was Chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018. Prior to his governorships, Mr. Carney worked at Goldman Sachs as well as the Canadian Department of Finance. Mr. Carney is currently the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and Co-Chair for the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero. Mr. Carney is an external member of the board of Stripe, a member of the Global Advisory Board of PIMCO, Senior Counsellor of the Macro Advisory Partners, a member of the board of Cultivo and Advisor to Watershed. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty, Harvard University, Rideau Hall Foundation, Bilderberg, as well as the boards of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Hoffman Institute for Global Business and Society at INSEAD. Mr. Carney is also Chair of the Advisory Boards of Chatham House and Canada 2020. Mr. Carney holds doctorate and master’s degrees from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Chair and Designated Financial Expert of the Audit Committee

Mr. Coutu previously served as a director of Brookfield Corporation (formerly Brookfield Asset Management Inc.) from 2006 to 2022. Mr. Coutu is the past Chairman of Syncrude Canada Ltd., a former President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Gulf Canada Resources Limited, and has held a number of senior roles in corporate finance, investment banking, mining and oil & gas exploration and development. Mr. Coutu is a board director of IGM Financial Inc., Power Corporation of Canada, Great-West Lifeco Inc. and the Calgary Stampede Foundation Board. He is a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, a past member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and a past member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta. Mr. Coutu holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

Mr. Flatt is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield and has served as a director of the Corporation since April 2001. Mr. Flatt joined the Corporation in 1990 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2002. Mr. Flatt has been on numerous public company boards over the past three decades and does not currently sit on any external corporate boards.

Chair of the Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committee

Ms. Garfield is the Chief Executive Officer of Severn Trent, a FTSE 100 water utilities company. Before joining Severn Trent, Ms. Garfield was Chief Executive Officer of Openreach, part of the BT Group, where she spearheaded and oversaw the commercial roll-out of fibre broadband to two-thirds of the country. She joined BT in 2002 and held the pivotal roles of Group Director of Strategy and Regulation, Managing Director Commercial and Brands, Global Services and UK Customer Services Director. From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Garfield worked for Accenture as a consultant in the Communications and High Tech Market Unit, designing and implementing business change solutions across a number of industry sectors. In October 2020, Ms. Garfield was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the water industry. Ms. Garfield holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committee

Nili Gilbert, CFA, CAIA, is the Vice Chairwoman of Carbon Direct, a leader in scaling carbon management into a global industry through climate investment, technology, and client advisory.

She is also Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s (GFANZ) Advisory Panel of technical experts, as well as a member of its CEO Principals Group. In addition to serving as a Chairwoman of both the David Rockefeller Fund and the Synergos Institute Investment Committees, Nili is an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management. She is also a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Advisory Council, and a member of the Harvard Institute for Climate and Sustainability Advisory Board.

Previously, she was Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Matarin Capital, which became one of the larger women-owned asset managers in the US. She also previously served as a member of the State of California’s Climate-Related Financial Risk Advisory Group, the Social Mission Board of Seventh Generation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever, and the TED Vision Council. Her TED Talk on climate finance has received nearly 2 million views.

She has been honored among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance, as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, LinkedIn “TopVoice” in Finance, Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Securities Professionals, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek “One to Watch.” She is a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.

Nili received her BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, her MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was a Toigo Fellow, and she has completed programs in leadership and sustainability at Oxford and Stanford Universities.

Mr. Johnson is Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Sequoia Heritage, a global, evergreen private investment partnership investing on behalf of entrepreneurs, families, and philanthropies established in 2010. Prior to Sequoia Heritage, Mr. Johnson held several investment and wealth management positions with the Stanford Management Company, Bel Air Investment Advisors and Salomon Smith Barney (acquired by Morgan Stanley). Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the Brigham Young University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mr. Johnson is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Kingston is currently a Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management. and Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Property Group. Mr. Kingston joined the Corporation in 2001 and was named Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Property Group in 2015. Prior to his current role, Mr. Kingston led the Corporation’s Australian business activities, holding the positions of Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Office Properties Australia, Chief Executive Officer of Prime Infrastructure and Chief Financial Officer of Multiplex.

Member of the Audit Committee

Ms. Kirkby is the CEO of BT Group, a British multinational telecommunications company, and has been a member of the board since 2019. In addition, Ms. Kirkby is a member of the Investigatory Powers Governance Committee and Chairs the Executive Committee of the board of BT Group. She is the former President and CEO of Telia Company, the Swedish based digital communications and telecommunications provider to the Nordic/Baltic region and has built deep expertise in the TMT Sector over the past decade. Ms. Kirkby was previously President and Group CEO of TDC Group until October 2019, and President & Group CEO of Tele2 AB from 2015 to 2018, having been Tele2 AB’s Group CFO from 2014. She has also held financial and operational roles within 21st Century Fox, Virgin Media, Procter & Gamble and Guinness. Ms. Kirkby holds an Accounting degree from Glasgow Caledonian University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Cyrus Madon is Executive Chairman of Brookfield’s Private Equity Group and Brookfield Business Partners. In this role, he is responsible for developing strategy and providing investment oversight, while supporting the broader private equity team in executing our growth initiatives.
  
Mr. Madon has held a number of senior roles across the organization, including Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield's Private Equity business.

Mr. Madon holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University. He is also on the board of the C.D. Howe Institute.

Member of the Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committee

Ms. Noble’s background is in private equity, venture capital and international development. She was a partner of Schroder Ventures, later Permira, for 10 years, founder CEO of eVentures and Reed Elsevier Ventures and from 2011-17 was CEO of British International Investment, the British Government’s development finance institution, investing solely in Africa and South Asia, with a dual mission of financial return and development impact. She is currently a member of the Bank of England’s Court (the Bank’s governing Board) and chaired the 2021 Court Review into Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion at the Bank. Her advisory business, Kirkos Partners advises leaders of PE/VC firms on important strategic events, such as leadership transition. She has recently published research on this topic (“When to Go and How to Go” – Founder and Leader Transition in Private Equity) with Professor Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School. She also a Trustee of The Children’s Society and the Investment Committee of MedAccess, which accelerates access to healthcare products for patients across Africa and South Asia through innovative structures such as volume guarantees for manufacturers.

Mr. Pollock is currently a Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management, head of the Corporation’s Infrastructure Group and Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. In this role, he is responsible for the expansion of the infrastructure operating business. Since joining the Corporation in 1994, Mr. Pollock has held a number of senior positions across the organization, including leading the Corporation’s corporate investment group and its private equity business. Mr. Pollock holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant.

Member of the Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committee

Mr. Rai was formerly the Chief Investment Officer at OMERS overseeing all asset classes globally. Prior to joining OMERS in January 2015, he served as Chief Investment Officer at TD Asset Management where he previously chaired the Committee of the Advancement of Visible Minorities in Leadership Roles and was a Diversity Leadership Council member. Mr. Rai is currently a Senior Advisor at OMERS and additionally he serves on the Board of Fairfax India, Richcraft Homes and Second Harvest and on the Advisory Committee for Capitalize for Kids. He is a past member of the respective Boards of the University of Waterloo, Michael Garron Hospital Foundation (formerly Toronto East General Hospital Foundation), Toronto Global and Women in Capital Markets. In 2006 he received the Alumni Achievement Medal from Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics. Mr. Rai holds both a Bachelor of Mathematics (University of Waterloo) and a CFA and is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization/World Presidents’ Organization.