John Alan MacNaughton (6 March 1945 – 15 February 2013) was a Canadian investment dealer. He was the

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of the

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and was the founding president and

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of the

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB; ), operating as CPP Investments (), is a Canadian Crown corporation established by way of the 1997 ''Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act'' to oversee and invest the funds contributed to and h ...

Biography

MacNaughton was born in Exeter, Ontario to Charles Steel MacNaughton (1911–1987) and Adeline Myrtle Willard Fulcher (1913–1997). He left to study at the University of Western Ontario. MacNaughton was the

of the

and of the

CNSX Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE; ), operated by CNSX Inc., is a stock exchange domiciled in Canada. When recognized by the Ontario Securities Commission in 2004, CSE was the first new exchange approved in Ontario in 70 years. The CSE is a rapi ...

stock exchange. He was a director of

Nortel Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in ...

Networks Corporation and Nortel Networks Limited. He was the chair of the Independent Nominating Committee of the new

Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board The Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB) was a Crown corporation of the Government of Canada, created in 2008, that began its operations in 2010 and was dissolved in 2013. As a parent Crown corporation, under Part X of the Financial ...

. He served as president and CEO of Burns Fry from 1989 to 1994 and president of Nesbitt Burns from 1994 to 1999. MacNaughton was also a director for TransCanada Corp. He was the founding president and

of the

from 1999 to 2005. He was also a member of the

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In 2004, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for his "outstanding leadership in the financial services industry as well as in the voluntary and public sectors".

Death

MacNaughton died on February 15, 2013, at the age of 67 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

References

1945 births 2013 deaths Canadian chairpersons of corporations Canadian corporate directors Canadian financiers CPP Investment Board people Directors of Nortel Members of the Order of Canada {{Canada-gov-bio-stub