The board of directors of the Local Authorities Pension Plan (LAPP) Corp. has appointed Christopher A. Brown as its new president and CEO.
He will take on his new responsibilities beginning Jan. 5, 2015, replacing Laurence Waring, LAPP’s vice-president of investments, who assumed the role of interim CEO in July 2013, after the departure of former CEO Meryl Whittaker.
“We are very excited to have Chris on board and look forward to working with him as we continue to build on the strengths and success of LAPP as Alberta’s largest pension plan,” says board chair Terry Agoto.
A practising member of the Law Society of Alberta for the past 20 years, Brown has been a leading pension expert counselling clients and working with regulators and other pension policy makers on pension legislation and governance at the provincial and national levels.
He has served as co-chair of the Alberta-British Columbia Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards and worked with Alberta’s and B.C.’s experts to review private sector pension legislation in the two provinces. Those recommendations resulted in new pension legislation in both provinces in 2012.
Brown also served as the president of the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) from 2010 to 2013, is a current member of the national board of directors, executive committee and national policy committee of the ACPM, and a past member of its Alberta council. And he sat on the Stakeholder Task Force on Common Pension Standards for the Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities.
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