About

Sheila Murray is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of CI Financial. She plays a key role in directing the operations and setting corporate strategy for CI Financial and its operating companies, including CI Investments and Assante Wealth Management. As general counsel, she provides strategic, securities regulatory and governance advice to the company and its board of directors. Her activities include leading CI’s mentoring program, which fosters the advancement of high-potential female employees. Murray joined CI Financial in 2008, and was appointed president in 2016. Prior to CI Financial, Murray had a distinguished 25-year career at Blake, Cassels & Graydon, where she practised securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate reorganisations. She is currently Chair of the Dean’s Council at Queen’s University Law School, an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and taught securities regulation and corporate finance at University of Toronto’s Global Professional LL.M in Business Law Program for several years. Murray is a member of the board of director of the Aequitas NEO Exchange, a trustee of the Toronto Symphony Foundation and has been a director of a number of private and public companies. She also serves on the Business Law Advisory Council, which advises the Ontario government on the reform of corporate and commercial statutes. She was also a member of the Business Law Agenda Stakeholder Panel, an expert group whose recommendations led to the creation of the council in 2016, and acted for the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission and was part of a team who advised the Canadian securities regulators on the reformulation of securities regulation.