Benita is Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Benita is responsible for the treasury, investment risk, operations, investment finance and technology functions within the CPP Investment Board. The CPP Investment Board invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan to pay current benefits. The CPP Fund was $127.6 billion at March 31, 2010.
Prior to joining CPP Investment Board, Benita was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Northwater Capital Management Inc., a privately-owned institutional fund manager specializing in hedge funds, synthetic indexing and other non-traditional investments.
Benita is active on several boards, including Canada Development Investment Corporation (a federal crown corporation), Queen's School of Business Advisory Board (at Queen's University) and Alzheimer Society of Toronto (a charitable organization). She is also a member of the Audit Committee of Queen's University.
Benita holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. She was named to the Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100 list in 2009 and again in 2010.