Private Markets Forum 2025

April 7 – 9, 2025
Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto ON

Private markets investing has been shaped by a variety of economic, climate and technological factors. How can institutional investors navigate the complex landscape and seize opportunities? What strategies are experts deploying in achieving their fiduciary responsibilities? Join us at the Private Markets Forum 2025, from April 7th to 9th at the Four Seasons Toronto to find out! Connect with your peers, foster and build relationships with other experts, and create conversations that could change the industry.

Keynote Speakers

Nicole Musicco


Former CIO


CALPERS

View Bio

Prof. Luis Seco


Director, Mathematical Finance Program

University of Toronto

View Bio

Pedro Guazo


Representative of the Secretary-General (RSG) for the investment of the assets

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)

View Bio

Advisory Board

Jeff Chan

CFA

Director, ESG Investing


Canada Post Pension Plan

View Bio

Tanya Carmichael

ICD.D

Founder


Roxborough Advisory

View Bio

Koblavi A. Fiagbedzi 

MBA, CFA, CAIA

Portfolio Manager, Head of Real Assets

CBC Pension Plan

View Bio

Peter Martin Larsen


Senior Managing Director, Private Markets

University Pension Plan Ontario

View Bio

Sunita V. Mahant


Managing Director, Sustainability

CDPQ

View Bio

Victoria Tallez


Associate Director, Research

FCLTGlobal

View Bio

Supporting Event Partner

AIMA

View Profile

The Event Experience

Participate in peer-to-peer discussions addressing forward-looking topics facing institutional investors

Network with institutional investors and your peers through a series of breaks and roundtable exchange discussions

Hear from a vast array of industry experts through interactive discussions

Extend connections at the off-site reception and dinner

Interact with speakers and make connections through use of an event app

Private Markets Forum 2024
Event Highlights

Ways to Participate

Speak

Propose a speaker for a topic aligned with the conference theme

Attend

Complimentary passes available for qualified institutional investors

Sponsor

Limited sponsorship opportunities available for provider firms

Nicole Musicco

Former CIO

CALPERS

Nicole Musicco is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Square Nine Capital, an opportunistic private credit fund. Prior to Square Nine Capital, Nicole was the CIO at CalPERS, a $500 billion US pension plan. She was previously a Partner at RedBird Capital Partners, a $10 billion private equity firm, predominately in Sports, Media, & Entertainment. Additionally, Nicole spent over 16 years in a broad range of senior investment leadership roles at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (“OTPP”), a $200 billion Canadian pension plan, overseeing Private & Public Equity asset classes, and establishing OTPP’s presence in Asia by building out its Pan-Asian investment platform based in Hong Kong. At Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (“IMCO”), a $70 billion pension asset management firm, Nicole led the $20 billion Private Markets investment program, across Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Real Estate.

Prof. Luis Seco

Director, Mathematical Finance Program

University of Toronto

Prof. Luis Seco is the Director of the Mathematical Finance Program, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto and director of Risklab, a university research laboratory established in 1996, conducting research in quantitative finance, with special focus on asset management. Prof. Seco’s current activity is focused on sustainability, including climate risk. Prof. Seco’s core activity is bringing artificial intelligence into today’s sustainability challenges to build a new better world for future.

Pedro Guazo

Representative of the Secretary-General (RSG) for the investment of the assets

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)

Mr. Guazo was appointed RSG for the investment of the assets of the UNJSPF on 29 July 2020.
Mr. Guazo was the Finance Director at the United Nations in New York for almost eight years. He managed a portfolio of more than USD$10 billion and an annual revenue of US$13 billion. He led the Organization’s finance operations in practically every country in the world.
Prior to joining the United Nations in 2012, he served in a similar capacity for more than two years as the Director of Finance and Treasury at the United Nations World Food Programme, managing a Portfolio of USD$4 billion and supervising finance officials in more than 75 Country Offices.
During a 15-year banking career, he contributed to the modernization of the Mexican Financial System, while serving as its regulator and supervisor. As CFO and Treasurer at the Federal Mortgage Bank (SHF), he negotiated and managed loans from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. Similarly, he championed financial inclusion among people with low and middle incomes as CFO and Treasurer of the National Savings and Financial Services Bank (BANSEFI). His government service included posts at the Ministry of Finance and at the National Banking and Securities Commission, as a member of its Financial Sector Supervisory Body. While a student, he started his professional career at PWC.
A former professor of Finance at ITAM, Mr. Guazo received an International Executive MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid. He earned a Master’s degree in Business Economics from ITESM and graduated from ITAM in 1996 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

Jeff Chan

CFA

Director, ESG Investing

Canada Post Pension Plan

Jeff Chan is Director, ESG Investing at Canada Post Corporate Pension Plan. In this role, Jeff leads all aspects of the plan’s ESG efforts including ESG integration, stewardship efforts and the implementation of the plan’s climate change strategy. Prior to this role, Jeff was Director, ESG at a large Canadian asset management firm where he developed and led the implementation of the firm’s ESG strategy and roadmap, including policy and process creation. Jeff also played an integral role in ESG product development and ESG-related client servicing.

Jeff is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and has completed a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science (Life Sciences) from McMaster University. Jeff also holds the FSA Credential from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). 

Tanya Carmichael

LL.B, ICD.D

Founder

Roxborough Advisory

Tanya is committed to creating catalytic impact pathways through a systems thinking approach. With more than 20 years of investment experience, Tanya carved out an executive pathway in private equity on the back of one key differentiator discovered early in her career: a passion for ESG injection into investment strategy and leadership. She went on to manage a $12B fund portfolio and global investment team as Managing Director and Head of Global Funds, Private Capital for Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. A firm believer in the power of global collaboration, Tanya served as Chair of ILPA and was also a member of the UN PRI Private Equity Steering Committee.

Tanya holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from Western University and earned her ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and Rotman (University of Toronto). With a non-traditional background in the world of private equity and corporate finance, she brings a progressive perspective and vision for a reimagined infrastructure of finance to support people, profit and purpose in equal balance.

Tanya serves as a speaker and advisor partnering with pension fund leaders, Boards, and institutional investors to re-imagine ESG, culture, and DE&I initiatives as part of their broader investment strategy. She believes the next frontier of sustainable, future-proofed investment can be achieved by leveraging holistic systems thinking, interconnectedness of investor and society, purpose loops and operational pathways for change.

Koblavi A. Fiagbedzi 

MBA, CFA, CAIA

Portfolio Manager, Head of Real Assets

CBC Pension Plan

Koblavi Fiagbedzi joined the CBC Pension Plan in 2018 and is currently Portfolio Manager and Head of Real Assets. The Real Assets portfolio is 14.5% of Plan AUM. In his role, Koblavi leads strategy development, investment activity, ongoing monitoring, and risk management functions of the portfolio. Real asset investment activity is executed via direct, JV/co-investment, secondary and Fund structures globally. In addition, Koblavi provides support to the larger team for private equity and private debt investments.

Koblavi began his career at the Bank of Canada in 2004 where he worked on long term research and model development. Later, he joined Export Development Canada “EDC” as an Economist where he focused on current analysis and transactional guidance for political risk insurance, sovereign, and project finance loans in several key markets. When he joined the International Business Development Group at EDC in 2008, Koblavi led EDC’s corporate strategy for emerging markets and conducted due diligence and sourcing for project finance, corporate debt, political risk, and credit insurance. In 2012, Koblavi joined the CMPA Investment Fund where he focused on transaction and portfolio management for the private market portfolio in private debt, private equity, and real assets.

Koblavi earned his BBA (Honors) from Acadia University and MBA from the University of London. Koblavi is also a CAIA and CFA charter holder. 

Peter Martin Larsen

Senior Managing Director, Private Markets

University Pension Plan Ontario

Peter Martin Larsen is UPP’s Senior Managing Director, Head of Private Markets, responsible for UPP’s Private Markets portfolio comprising the infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and private debt asset classes. Prior to joining UPP, Peter held senior investor roles at one of Europe’s largest institutional investors, PensionDanmark, and advisory firm and investment banking positions at PwC and Macquarie Capital. Peter has served on the Boards of Directors of multiple large infrastructure companies, and currently sits on the Investment Committee of the Danish Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Investment Fund, a DKK 5bn public-private partnership contributing to the realization of the 17 UN SDGs through investments in developing countries. Peter has Master’s Degrees in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and the University of Copenhagen.

Victoria Tellez

Associate Director, Research

FCLTGlobal

Victoria Tellez re-joined FCLTGlobal in 2023 following her time at the TPG Rise Fund, where she helped maximize impact for the world’s largest private equity impact investing platform. In this role, Victoria conducted impact and ESG assessments to inform capital allocation decisions in education, life sciences, healthcare, financial inclusion, and climate sectors.

Prior to TPG, Victoria was part of the FCLTGlobal team for four years as a Senior Research Associate and is thrilled to continue contributing to its mission as Associate Director.

Victoria holds a B.S. in Labor Relations from Cornell University and a M.Sc. in Social Policy from The University of Pennsylvania, where she was the singular recipient of the Wilson-Spigner Social Policy Excellence award.