OTPP CEO Jim Leech to retire

Jim Leech is retiring after serving 12 years with the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan, the last six of which he spent as CEO.

Ron Mock, the OTPP’s senior vice-president of Fixed Income and Alternative Investments, will succeed Leech on January 1, 2014. Mock started as chair of Alternative Investments in 2001 with the OTPP.

“We undertook a comprehensive succession process, with consideration to both external and internal candidates,” says Eileen Mercier, chair of the OTPP. It’s also tradition for the pension plan to cultivate talent and promote internally.

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