Stephen J. Griggs is the Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, which represents leading Canadian pension plans and investment managers who collectively manage over $1.4 trillion on behalf of Canadians.

Mr. Griggs is also the Chairman and a partner of Investeco Capital Corp., Canada’s first environmental investment company and a leading private equity investor in Canada’s “green” economy.

Mr. Griggs is a financial services executive with significant experience in the retail, high net worth and institutional investment management industry in Canada.  Mr. Griggs was the President and CEO of Legg Mason Canada Inc. from January 2003 to June 2007, with responsibility for the Canadian operations of Legg Mason, Inc., one of the world’s top 5 global investment management firms with assets under management of nearly $1 trillion. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Operating Officer of two leading Canadian mutual fund companies.   Mr. Griggs was also a corporate/commercial and securities partner with the Toronto law firm Smith Lyons (now Gowlings) until 1994 and remains a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Mr. Griggs was on the board of BPI Financial Corporation (TSX listed) and Chair of the Audit Committee prior to its sale to CI Financial in 1999, and is currently on the Independent Review Committee of ING Mutual Funds.

Mr. Griggs has been active in investment industry organizations, including being a director of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada for many years and a member of the Public Policy Committee of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance.

Mr. Griggs is also very involved with his community and a number of charitable organizations and is on the boards of SmartRisk Foundation, Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, The Ontario Board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, The Ojibway Historical Preservation Society (Chair), and the St. Patrick’s Benevolent Society of Toronto. He is also Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Georgian Bay Land Trust and is the immediate past President of The Ojibway Club.