Leadership team

The expert team working to ensure that your pension remains stable and secure

CAAT's leadership

To remain on track and focused on our goals, the Plan relies on the leadership of an accomplished team of professionals. With a mix of industry experience, education, and a commitment to our long-term objectives, we have a team with a wealth of expertise to meet future challenges.


Leadership team

Derek W. Dobson

Derek is a seasoned pension expert with more than 30 years of industry experience. Since joining as CEO and Plan Manager in April 2009, he has led the CAAT Plan to become one of Canada’s most...

Asif Haque

Asif brings over 25 years of experience in finance and investments to the CAAT Pension Plan. As CIO, Asif leads CAAT’s investment team in managing a portfolio designed to generate sufficient long-term...

Evan Howard

As Chief Pension Officer, Evan is responsible for overseeing operational and strategic efforts at CAAT, including legal, public affairs, pension policy, service delivery and communications. With over...

Julie Giraldi

Julie Giraldi is an accomplished and dynamic senior executive with a career dedicated to positively transforming organizational cultures. As the Chief Human Resources Officer at CAAT Pension Plan, she...

Michael Dawson

Michael has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial industry, with a strong focus on technology's transformative role. As Chief Financial Officer, he oversees investment finance, corporate...

Jillian Kennedy

Jillian has over 25 years in the financial services industry, including 18 years at Mercer, where she focused on the Canadian DC strategy, retirement readiness research, thought leadership, and...

Graham Stone

Graham brings over 30 years of pension consulting experience to CAAT. As Vice President, Pension Solutions, Graham is responsible for promoting CAAT’s modern DBplus design and partnering with...

Kevin Fahey

Kevin is responsible for the CAAT Plan’s private equity and real assets (infrastructure and real estate) investments, and brings over 20 years of relevant experience to his role. Kevin is a past Chair...

Marnie Niemi Hood

Marnie brings over 25 years of pension and benefits experience, and has a well-earned reputation for finding solutions that work for employers and members. She currently leads growth initiatives as...

Randy Haug

Randy brings over 20 years of leadership experience in IT managed services, IT consulting, financial services and telecommunications to his role at the CAAT Pension Plan. He is responsible for...

David Gordon

David leads CAAT’s policy development and government and regulatory engagement, with 10 years of experience in stakeholder relations, pension and public policy. Previously, he provided strategic...

Sabeen Purewall

Sabeen Purewall is responsible for promoting CAAT’s modern DBplus plan design through relationship development and product/growth marketing. As Vice President, Solutions and Partnerships Sabeen...

Tom Iannucci

Tom is responsible for governance and strategy at the CAAT Pension Plan. He joins CAAT from Cortex Applied Research Inc., where he served as President and a Senior Consultant. He has over 25 years of...

Sonny Khindria

Sonny brings 25 years of pension administration and service management experience to CAAT and currently leads the Member Services teams within Service Delivery. As the Vice President of Member...

Troy Whetstone

Troy brings over 25 years of pension administration experience to CAAT and currently leads the Employer Experience team within Service Delivery. The Employer Services team strives towards...

Heather Brady

Heather joined CAAT in 2014 and has over 10 years of progressive experience in policy analysis and development. As Vice President of Pension Policy, Heather leads an enthusiastic team of policy...

James Fera

James brings over a decade of experience practising pension and benefits law at both major consulting and law firms. As Vice President, Legal Affairs, James is responsible for pension legal and...

Laura Foster

Laura joined CAAT in September 2022, to build the newly created internal audit function. With over 25 years of executive leadership in internal audit, risk management, corporate compliance and CFO...