President and CEO

David G. Creighton

In his capacity as President and CEO of Cordiant, David Creighton oversees the management of the IFPT and CIFA funds. As Chairman of the Management Committee and member of the Investment Committee of Cordiant, he has been directly involved with the analysis and approval of over 80 private sector investments spread over 30 emerging countries. Over the course of his 23 year career, Mr. Creighton has accumulated extensive experience in the field of international capital markets, initially in Toronto with Richardson Greenshields, in the area of International Money Markets, and later with Burns Fry in New York. He spent 13 years in London, England, as Vice President and Director for the merged firm of BMO Nesbitt Burns, where he managed and developed the international fixed income sales team. During this tenure, he expanded the institutional European, African, Middle Eastern and Asian businesses. Under his direction, offices were opened in Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing. Mr. Creighton has had extensive dealings in fund management, financial engineering, derivatives and securitizations.

In 1999, Mr. Creighton returned to Montreal to coordinate the launch of the first IFPT fund.

Mr. Creighton is an honours graduate from the University of Guelph where he studied Agricultural Economics. His directorships include Cordiant, AC Water Canada, Canada/South Africa Chamber and he is Chairman of the Investment Committee for the BCS Foundation. In addition to being a member of the Securities Institute in the United Kingdom and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States, he is also a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. He has been a contributor and fundraiser with a number of local and international causes. He is a governor of the Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art and has travelled extensively around the world.