Dorothy Sanford (Chair)

Dorothy Sanford, FCPA, FCA has more than 30 years of experience as a securities regulator, a consultant to a wide range of market participants and the head of an investor protection fund. As President of the MFDA IPC, Ms. Sanford oversaw the fund’s largest insolvency including dealing directly with individual high value claimants, many of whom were in underserviced parts of rural Ontario. As a consultant, she has advised investment dealers, mutual fund dealers and other securities registrants, and executed global regulatory compliance projects for public companies and registrants.

Ms. Sanford also has considerable corporate governance experience having served as a corporate and not for profit Director. She has chaired public company and not-for-profit audit committees, most recently with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.