Board of Directors
Barry Blattman is a Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management. In this role, he focuses on senior, strategic client and business relationships, and contributes to general business development and transaction strategy globally. He is also a director of Brookfield Wealth Solutions Ltd. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2002, Mr. Blattman was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, having begun his career with Salomon Brothers in 1986. Mr. Blattman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He serves on the board of Montefiore Health System, and chairs its Real Estate Planning and Development Committee.
Member of the Audit Committee
Angela F. Braly is the former Chair of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of WellPoint, Inc., a health benefits company now known as Elevance Health Inc. She was Chair of the Board of WellPoint from 2010 to 2012 and President and Chief Executive Officer and a Board member from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, Ms. Braly served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Public Affairs Officer of WellPoint and President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri. Since 2016, she has served on the board of Exxon Mobil Corporation. She served on the board of Brookfield Corporation from 2015 to 2025, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. from 2013 to 2021 and The Procter & Gamble Company from 2009 to 2024, including serving on the Audit Committee. She has a Juris Doctor degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, BBA from Texas Tech 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 past 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.
Member of the Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committee
Scott Cutler is the Chief Executive Officer and a director of HealthEquity, Inc., the largest health savings account custodian in the U.S. Prior to joining HealthEquity, Mr. Cutler served as Chief Executive Officer of StockX from 2019 to 2024, and prior to that as Senior Vice President of the Americas at eBay, Inc., from 2017 to 2019. From 2015 to 2017, he served as President of StubHub. Before joining StubHub, Mr. Cutler spent nine years as Executive Vice President at the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Cutler holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. He currently serves on the non-profit board of Vibrant Emotional Health, and previously served on the board of Brookfield Renewable Partners and Brookfield Renewable Corporation from 2020 to 2025 and Brookfield Property Partners from 2019 to 2020.
Mr. Flatt is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield and Chair of the Board of Directors. He 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 investment, science, and client advisory.
She is also Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero’s (GFANZ) Advisory Panel of technical experts and one of its Principals. In addition to serving as an Independent Board Director of Brookfield Asset Management, Nili is Chair of the David Rockefeller Fund Investment Committee. She is also a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a member of the Clinton Global Initiative Advisory Council, and a member of Harvard’s Salata Institute Advisory Board.
With a focus on global macroeconomic forecasting and investment, Nili previously Co-Founded Matarin Capital, growing the firm into one of the largest women-owned asset managers in the U.S. She has also served on two World Economic Forum Global Future Councils, and across committee chair and advisory roles as a permanent member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.
Nili is honored among Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance and TIME100 Climate. Her TED Talk has received nearly 2 million views. She has also been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, LinkedIn “TopVoice” in Finance, Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Securities Professionals, Bloomberg BusinessWeek “One to Watch”, and awarded with a Bellagio Center Residency by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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.
Cyrus Madon is Executive Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management. He is also the Executive Chair of Brookfield’s Private Equity Group; in this role, he is responsible for developing strategy and providing investment oversight, while supporting the broader team in executing our growth initiatives. He is a member of Brookfield's Executive Committee. Mr. Madon joined Brookfield in 1998 and has held a number of senior roles across the organization, including CEO 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
Diana 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 2011-2017 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), chair of the Remuneration Committee and chaired the 2021 Court Review into Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion at the Bank. She is also a Governor of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation, supporting scientific research for step changes in health outcomes, chairs the People and Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Investment Committee. Her advisory business, Kirkos Partners, advises leaders of PE/VC firms on 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.
William Powell is a Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Credit Group. He currently leads Brookfield’s real estate debt team. Since joining Brookfield in 2002, Mr. Powell has held many roles across the organization including Partner in Brookfield’s initial Real Estate Finance business, and Chief Operating Officer of the Brookfield Property Group. Mr. Powell served as CEO of Brookfield’s Australian and Asian businesses from 2013 to 2017. Prior to joining Brookfield in 2002, Mr. Powell held various senior management positions within the real estate capital markets groups at a number of investment management firms. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Darden School of the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Richmond.