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Jim Leech
CM CD OOnt[1]
14th Chancellor of Queen's University
Assumed office
July 1, 2014[2]
Preceded byDavid A. Dodge[3]
President and chief executive officer of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
In office
1 December 2007[4] – December 31, 2013[5]
Preceded byClaude Lamoureux
Succeeded byRon Mock
Personal details
Born
James William Leech

(1947-06-12) June 12, 1947 (age 77)[6]
St. Boniface, Manitoba[6]
NationalityCanadian
SpouseDeborah Barrett[7]
ChildrenJennifer, Joanna and Andrew[7]
Alma materQueen's University
Royal Military College of Canada[8][9]

James William (Jim) Leech CM CD OOnt (born June 12, 1947) is a Canadian business executive. Since 2014, he has been the 14th Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Prior to that, he spent 12 years at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), first for 6 years as a senior vice-president of OTPP head of Teachers' Private Capital, OTPP's private investment arm, and then as president and chief executive officer of the pension plan until his retirement in 2013.[9][10][11][12]

Early life, education and military service

Born into a military family,[1] where his father, George Leech, and uncle, Don Laubman, were senior regular force career officers in the Canadian Armed Forces,[7][13] Leech moved around Canadian army bases during his teenage years, including CFB Kingston[6] and Camp Petawawa,[14] both in Ontario, and CFB Edmonton, Alberta.[15]

Leech attended Royal Roads Military College, whose 2-year program bridged with a 4-year degree at Royal Military College of Canada, where he majored in mathematics and physics and obtained his Bachelor of Science in 1968.[6] He joined the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals after graduation and was posted first at the Royal 22e Régiment, and then at the 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group Headquarters and Signal Squadron for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in then-West Germany,[7][16] becoming a captain at the age of 22.[15] He resigned from military service in 1971, and enrolled in Master of Business Administration program at Queen's University, where his father was working as a registrar after his retirement from the military.[15] Leech earned his MBA 2 years later.[6][9]

Early career

After graduating from MBA, Leech joined the Montreal financial and real estate firm Commerce Capital Corporation.[6][15] In 1979, through founder George Mann, Leech joined Unicorp Canada Corporation, one of the first public merchant banks in the country,[6][15], becoming its president in 1983.[6] He led the first hostile takeover in Canada [17] in 1985,[15] gaining control of Union Enterprises Ltd., the parent company of Union Gas Ltd., a Southern Ontario natural gas utility company.[17][18] He became the president and CEO of Union Energy after the acquisition.[6] He then led the 1988 takeover Lincoln Savings Bank, a savings bank in New York, but the deal resulted in Unicorp's US subsidiary losing almost USD$100 million. In 1992, as Vancouver-based Westcoast Energy Inc. (now Westcoast Transmission Co.) was buying Union Energy, Unicorp's assets were liquidated, and Leech ended his relationship with the company.[15][19]

Leech next joined Disys Ltd. in 1993 as president and CEO.[15][19], beginning his career into the technology sector. The main business of Disys was manufacturing smoke alarms, but it also had research in radio-frequency technology, which Leech thought would be funded by the smoke-alarm business.[15] However, a price war led to the split up of the company, and part of it was merged into Kasten Chase Applied Research Ltd, which Leech moved to as vice-chairman in 1996. Kasten also developed radio-frequency technology, but again struggled for profit.[15] Both Kasten and Disys were dissolved in 2000.[20][21]

In 1999, Leech joined Infocast Corp.,[22] an application service provider based in Toronto.[19] He left in 2001.[15]

Career at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Initially planning to retire, Leech accepted an offer from Claude Lamoureux, then-president and CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), to become the senior vice-president of OTPP and lead the Teachers' Private Capital (then named Teachers' Merchant Bank)[23], OTPP's private investment arm.[6] At that time, Teachers' Private Capital was about to change its way of investing, from holding shares in companies to buying them.[17]

Under Leech's leadership, Teachers' Private Capital teamed up with the private equity KKR and acquired Yellow Pages in Canada from BCE Inc. for 3 billion[24] in 2002.[25] Yellow Pages was converted into an income trust and listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange 1 year later.[26][27]

In 2003, a restructuring of the Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), which owns Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and Scotiabank Arena (then named Air Canada Centre) saw OTPP became the owner of the company, increasing its stake from 49% to 58.4%.[17][28] Leech oversaw this transition from longtime owner Steve Stavro.[15] In 2005, MLSE paid USD$10 million[29] for a new team in the Major League Soccer, later named Toronto FC.[30] OTPP sold MLSE to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications in 2012 for CAD$1.32 billion.[28][31]

Leech also led the purchase of GCT Global Container Terminals Inc. from Orient Overseas (International) Limited for USD$2.4 billion in 2006.[11][12][32][33] GCT operates 4 North American container ports, 2 in the Port of New York and New Jersey area and 2 in Port Metro Vancouver.[34] OTPP sold most of its stake in GCT in 2018, forming a management partnership with the Australian-based IFM Investors and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, a Crown corporation in Canada.[35][36]

In 2007, under Leech's leadership, Teachers' Private Capital, together with Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn, started a bidding war for BCE Inc., fighting against Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which teamed up with KKR.[37][38] Owning 5.3% of shares, OTPP was the largest shareholder of BCE at the time.[39] The final bid totalled CAD$51.7 billion, which included CAD$34 billion in debt[40][41] and split into CAD$34.8 billion for stock and CAD$16.9 billion for liabilities,[42] making it the largest leveraged buyout in history.[17][37] As the 2007-2008 financial crisis unfolded, the deal also faced legal challenges from BCE bondholders. The buyout eventually collapsed in 1 year later, as KPMG, its auditor, concluded that debt load would make the company resulted from the transaction insolvent.[32][37][43]

In September 2007, OTPP announced the appointment of Leech as its new president and CEO, succeeding Claude Lamoureux, who was retiring and has been leading OTPP since 1990. He started his new role on December 1, 2007.[4][10]

As CEO, Leech also oversaw a number of major deals, including 4 in 2010 (acquisition of Camelot Group, which operates the UK National Lottery[44][45][46] and of High Speed 1, then and still the only high-speed railway in the UK,[47][48][49] as well as sale of OTPP's stakes in Bell Media Inc. (then named CTVglobemedia Inc.) back to BCE Inc.[50][51] and of its stakes in Maple Leaf Foods, first to West Face Capital and then to BMO Capital Markets and TD Securities.[52] OTPP also sold MLSE to BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications in 2012,[28][31] and opened an office in Hong Kong in 2013, the second major regional office after its London office opened in 2007.[53]

Leech has expressed intention to retire at the end of 2013[54]. He retired from OTPP in December 31, 2013.[5][9]

Career after OTPP

Leech assumed the role of the 14th Chancellor of Queen's University in July 1, 2014.[1][22][55], furthering his involvement with his alma mater, which started with his election to the University Council and the Board of Trustees in the 1980s, and subsequent chairing the Advisory Board of Smith School of Business (formerly the Queen's School of Business).[56][57]

In the same year, he also became Special Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Finance,[58] a senior advisor at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in 2014,[9][59], the chair of the Board of Directors of the MasterCard Foundation,[60] and also Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation.[9] which is now part of the UHN Foundation.[61] His term at these 2 foundations ended in 2018[62] and 2020[63] respectively, although he remained as a board member at the foundations.[64][65] In 2017, Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau appointed Leech Special Advisor on the Canada Infrastructure Bank.[66] He is also chairing the Advisory Board of Peloton Capital Management since its founding in 2018,[67][68] and of the Institute for Sustainable Finance at the Smith School of Business since its launch in 2019,[69][70][71] and sits on Board of Directors of Historica Canada.[72]

In 2013, Leech co-wrote, with journalist Jacquie McNish, The third rail: confronting our pension failures, which discusses the crises facing the Canadian pension system.[73] It won the 2014 National Business Book Award[74][75] and was a runner-up of the 2013 Donner Prize.[76]

Honours and awards

The Jim Leech MCF Fellowship on Entrepreneurship at Makerere University and the Jim Leech MBA Scholarshipare at Queen's University are named after Leech.[82][83]

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