Eric Michael Wetlaufer

Eric Wetlaufer provides counsel as a director, advisor, and investor to a large range of public and private companies, with a particular focus on technology and financial sectors.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the TMX Group (Toronto), Niyogin Fintech (Mumbai) and Soulpepper Theatre Company (Toronto). He is an advisor to Enterra, GrainDiscovery, CryptoNumerics and the Aion Foundation in the AI, blockchain and data privacy spaces.

Previously, Eric served on the Boards of the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and is past president of the CFA Society Boston.

As an institutional investor for 35 years, he most recently was responsible for leading the CPP Investment Board’s Public Market Investments department, a multi-strategy platform of 220 portfolio managers analysts and traders investing globally over C$200 billion in publicly-traded assets and related derivatives.

Prior to joining CPPIB in 2011, he was Group Chief Investment Officer, International at Fidelity Investments in Boston. Prior, held the roles of Chief Investment Officer at Putnam Investments and Managing Director at Cadence Capital Management in Boston.

He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a certified member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.