About

Martin Guest currently serves as the chief compliance officer, general counsel and secretary at Manulife’s Canadian division. His current responsibilities at Manulife range from advising divisional senior management on complex legal matters affecting operations across multiple jurisdictions, to overseeing the development and implementation of compliance risk management strategies. Previously Guest worked for three years at the Canadian international law firm Torys, and spent over a decade at Fidelity Investments Canada. A business-oriented lawyer with 15 years of combined in-house experience, Guest is recognised as a lawyer with a long term vision, who uses excellent legal judgement and sound strategic insights to help drive business results, while remaining calm and focused under pressure. In addition, he is seen as a professional who possesses second to none interpersonal skills and exceptional managerial qualities.