FINANCIAL STAKES Manica Gautam moved to to launch a venture capital fund. Now she helps run the Houssian family's investment firm B.C.’S MOST INFLUENTIALmoney WOMEN on the To mark our fifth annual tribute to female leaders making a difference, we celebrate women in finance

or Kai Li, a finance professor atUBC Sauder School of Business, it’s become a familiar sight. In a typical year, about 50 percent of the school’s commerce undergraduates are female. But as third- year specialization approaches, relatively few women choose finance. Li, who teaches a course that readies students for Fthe investment banking industry, thinks there’s both a supply and a demand problem. “People who I invite as guest speakers, there are very few female role models, unfortunately,” she says. At the same time, investment banking’s long hours may not appeal to women seeking work-life balance. Despite such challenges, this province is home to a remarkable group of women working in financial roles. For our fifth annual B.C.’s Most Influential Women fea- ture, we again sought the advice of an expert panel (see p.47)—three of whose five members are women mak- ing their mark in finance—to identify names worthy of recognition. We defined finance broadly, to encompass every- one from CFOs and entrepreneurs to bank executives and money managers. As usual, our list is representa- tive, not exhaustive or definitive. The goal is to celebrate the achievements of female leaders at different career

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28 BCBUSINESS MARCH 2019 LINDSAY SIU ON LOCATION AT INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE VAULTS › MARCH 2019 BCBUSINESS 29 stages, hear some of their stories and show how big an 28 stocks tracked. On average, the researchers found, impact they’re making as a group. This time around, they bought shares for less and sold them for more than we’ve divided the list into six categories, mindful their male peers. For her part, Li co-authored a 2014 that some of them overlap. study of acquisition bids by S&P 1500 companies from In the financial sector and elsewhere, research 1997 to 2009, showing that for each additional female suggests that female leaders make a business more director, the price a firm paid for its takeover target fell successful. In a 2016 global survey of almost 22,000 by 15.4 percent. companies, the Washington, D.C.–based Peterson Asked what can be done to get more women interested Institute for International Economics found that in finance, she points to Wall Street banks’ move to limit nearly 60 percent had no female directors and the number of hours worked, including a ban on weekend fewer than 5 percent had a female CEO. However, toil. Fostering a workplace culture that welcomes gender among profitable companies surveyed, those with and racial diversity is important, too, says Li, who is also 30-percent female leadership in the C-suite could expect UBC Sauder’s senior associate dean, equity and diversity. their net margin to be 1 percentage point higher than the Two more key pieces: mentorship and role others—a 15-percent profit gain. models. “I understand they do not have enough senior Also in 2016, in a study of male and female Finnish women in that industry, but senior males can also be traders from 1995 to 2011, women averaged an impres- mentors,” Li says. “But they also have to overcome the

sive 21.4-percent annual internal rate of return across the backlash of the #MeToo events.” •

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When the U.S. government bailed out Citigroup in late 2008, Manica Gautam was working in its London office as an associate with the global consumer and retail invest- ment banking division. “I was probably for- tunate to be cheap enough not to lay off,” the casually dressed Gautam jokes at the smart downtown Vancouver headquarters of JH Investments, the private holding and investment company of the Houssian fam- ily. Citigroup’s near-collapse turned out be a blessing for Gautam, who gained respon- sibilities when the firm cut most of its mid- level investment bankers. Today at JH, she heads the private investment and venture capital portfolio of Joey Houssian, son of Corp. founder Joe Houssian. Gautam’s other current gig is overseeing the wind-down of venture capital fund Campfire Capital, where she’s a partner with John Currie and Christine Day, former CFO and CEO, respectively, of . The Toronto native moved to Vancouver in 2014 to launch Campfire and lead its US$32-million raise. The Houssian family

30 BCBUSINESS MARCH 2019 MARCH 2019 BCBUSINESS 31 were investors in Campfire, and Joey a brief stint as an associate for BMO Capital special effects. “It’s incredibly rewarding to time for my career Houssian sits on its advisory committee, Markets and joined the investment team of be able to work in so many different areas,” which led to her role with JH. ONCAP, the mid-market platform of Onex Gautam says of JH, which has five staff. Gautam, who laughs easily, was always Corp. She spent almost five years with Gautam sees plenty of women go into good at math, so she earned a commerce the private equity giant, including two as finance. Keeping them there is another mat- time for my MBA and finance degree at the University of director of fundraising at Onex Partners. “If ter. “Retaining that talent is the challenge Toronto. In 2005, with encouragement you think about the private equity invest- we all face,” she says. “As you progress along from informal mentor Kevin Li, who is still ing cycle, it all starts with fundraising,” says and climb the ladder, there are fewer of us a friend and now heads U.S. investment Gautam, whose skills in that area and as an here at the top.” banking for CIBC Capital Markets, she pur- investor caught the attention of her future When it comes to mentoring, sued a career in that industry, landing a job Campfire colleagues. Gautam keeps things informal. Besides sit- with Toronto-based Westwind Partners as Joey Houssian invests in a variety of ting down with people introduced to her an analyst. Around that time, the boutique early-stage ventures in consumer prod- through a mutual connection, she some- investment bank had opened an office in ucts, real estate, and travel and tourism. times responds to cold meeting requests on London, where Gautam worked before He recently launched Vallea Lumina, cre- LinkedIn. “The younger generation’s doing moving to Citigroup in 2007. ated with Montreal’s Moment Factory, a a great job of reaching out on their own,” she Returning to Toronto in 2010, she did global leader in video, lighting, sound and says. —N.R.

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B.C.’S MOST had a job as a customer service representa- law in Vancouver, but she never stopped has a ways to go. She’s encouraged by the the rest of her legacy, she points to things INFLUENTIAL WOMEN tive at Bank of Nova Scotia. She enjoyed the dreaming of a career in the financial sector. number of women in her daughter’s busi- like keeping pace with fintech innovation, field and had inherited her serial entrepre- She did a brief stint in the ’90s at her current ness class at McGill University (Leong says as well as promoting education in avoiding neur father, Carl’s, love of capital markets, workplace, but the watchdog was “going it’s split 50/50 between genders), and hope- fraud, as touchstones from her 10 years as PUBLIC SERVICE but something didn’t seem right. through some operational changes,” she ful that many of those students will go on to CEO of a body that prioritizes protecting “When I reflect back now, one of the rea- says, prompting her to return to law. choose a financial career. “But it’s a compli- investors in B.C. The securities commis- Brenda Leong sons I didn’t stay [in finance] and decided In 2004, though, she was lured back, cated matter, and if it was an easy fix, we’d sion just got a $7.6-million revenue increase CHAIR AND CEO, BRITISH COLUMBIA SECURITIES to pursue law was that I looked up into the becoming executive director of the BCSC be there,” she explains. “My personal view from higher fees to beef up enforcement. COMMISSION executive level of the bank and saw that before being appointed chair and CEO five is that there’s a lot of ingrained systemic “We strive to implement effective, there were no women,” the affable but seri- years later. She was recently named to a biases, or what some writers have referred smart regulation to have a vibrant capital It was the early 1980s, and Brenda Leong ous BCSC head says. third five-year term with the regulator, to as unconscious bias, which makes it chal- market,” Leong maintains. “At the same was conflicted. A couple of years after So it was off to the Osgoode Hall Law slated to end in 2023. lenging for women to succeed.” time, we work to protect investors through graduating with a business degree from the School at York University in Toronto. Leong Although finance has made great strides At the BCSC, Leong is proud that about our enforcement efforts and public educa- University of , the native Calgarian spent about 15 years practising corporate toward gender equality, Leong says, it still half of its 243 employees are women. As for tion campaigns.” —N.C.

34 BCBUSINESS MARCH 2019 BCBUSINESS.CA MARCH 2019 BCBUSINESS 35 the assurance group the same year and became a chartered professional accountant in 2003. Kirk’s very first client was a mine in central B.C. She was ■ Angela ■ Jessica exposed to a lot of different Austman Macht industries when she started Partner, Lawson Lundell Partner, B.C. Region but began to specialize in financial services mining around 2007. It’s big leader, and B.C. Region throughout the province, and innovation leader, PwC has a large mining prac- PwC Canada tice, she points out. “I really liked working with the group and also really liked the cli- ■ Radha ents and some of the techni- Curpen cal accounting challenges Managing partner, and all the transaction work Vancouver office, and that comes along typically co-head, environmental ■ Valerie Mann with mining companies.” law and aboriginal Partner and co-chair, Her work with clients is law practices, Bennett mergers and acquisi- mostly financial statement Jones; director and tions practice group, audit, but it sometimes also executive committee Lawson Lundell; mem- involves areas like auditing member, Greater Van- ber, board of governors, their internal controls, assist- couver Board of Trade Business Council of ing with technical accounting British Columbia analysis or moving to new ■ Jodi Evans accounting standards. Western Canada con- In 2012, Kirk became the sulting market leader, first female partner in the and member, board of PwC BC Region mining assur- directors, Deloitte ance group. PwC Canada, which has several programs ■ Susan to promote diversity and Tomaine inclusion, is aiming for gender Partner, Blake, Cassels parity on admission of new & Graydon partners by 2020. In min- ing, however, women are sig- ■ Kate Furber nificantly underrepresented, Partner and B.C. Region Kirk notes, adding that as private company of last September, Canada’s services leader, PwC top 100 mining companies Canada by market capitalization had ■ Katri B.C.’S MOST just one CEO and 16 CFOs who Ulmonen entrance scholarship in 1995, fresh out of were women, according to data provider Partner, international tax INFLUENTIAL WOMEN high school, she changed her mind. S&P Capital IQ. services, and director, “I was like, I don’t know what I’m going Kirk supports women in the industry U.S. tax services, MNP to do with a science degree,” Kirk remem- by coaching staff coming up through the PROFESSIONAL SERVICES bers. “The typical thing would be a teacher, mining group at PwC, hosting diversity ■ Kari which my [two older] sisters are, but that’s events for clients and contacts, being a Lockhart Lana Kirk just not me.” A basic accounting course in mentor and/or role model and connecting Partner and Deloitte Our lawyers are committed to protecting their innovations. PARTNER, PWC CANADA Grade 11 and a couple of cousins who were with female mining directors. “It’s really private leader for B.C., becoming accountants planted a seed. “I important to have men involved,” she says. Deloitte Growing up in Lavington, a small commu- like practical things, and going into busi- “When we have our diversity events, we do ■ Philippa nity near Vernon in the North Okanagan, ness seemed like a good idea to me as a encourage and really want to have more Wilshaw Lana Kirk was good at math and science, so practical solution,” Kirk explains. She com- men come because I don’t think we can Lead engagement she expected to study science in university. pleted a bachelor of business administra- make change just as a group of women, as partner, global audits,

But when she headed to SFU on a $20,000 tion in 2000, joined PwC as an associate in powerful as we may be.” —F.S. KPMG •

36 BCBUSINESS MARCH 2019 BCBUSINESS.CA MARCH 2019 BCBUSINESS 37 comes from a family that prizes white-label virtual bank that uses what education. Although she’s never it calls conversational AI to help people owned a car, her parents have manage their money better. So far, Finn given her pair of jumper cables AI’s customers include banks in Africa, as a graduation gift, she says, to Europe, and North and South America, remind her to think of educa- such as BMO Financial Group and South tion in a similar way: “It’s some- Africa’s TymeBank. thing that you carry with you Finn AI’s mission is to improve the and you can use for your own financial well-being of 100 million people benefit, but more often than not by 2025, Cartwright says. “We’re aligning you should use it for the benefit doing something good with the world at of other people.” huge scale—banks have incredible scale— After earning a BA in psy- but we’re aligning it with a profit motive.” chology and pathology from When it comes to attracting investment, McGill University in 2005, having a female founder has been an advan- Vancouver-raised Cartwright tage. Last fall, Finn AI raised $14 million in did a master’s in public health, Series A financing. Among the investors: BDC specializing in global health, at Capital’s Women in Technology Fund and Sweden’s Lund University. She New York–based 1843 Capital, which backs worked in international devel- companies with diverse founding teams. opment for the United Nations Half of Finn AI’s board and three mem- B.C.’S MOST before moving to Geneva in 2010 to co-run bers of its eight-strong leadership team are the Global Fund, a US$250-million vehicle women, says Cartwright, who wants to see INFLUENTIAL WOMEN that invested in low- and middle-income society move beyond gender roles. “It’s countries’ HIV, tuberculosis and malaria not just a problem for women; I think that programs. “I loved feeling like I was doing it’s equally a problem for men,” she says, CORPORATE & something that was contributing a net citing the stigma they can face for taking ENTREPRENEURSHIP positive into the world,” Cartwright says. parental leave. Going on to complete an MBA at IE Busi- Cartwright, who often speaks at young- Natalie Cartwright ness School in Madrid, she returned to Van- women’s clubs and at conferences, says CO-FOUNDER AND COO, FINN AI couver in 2014 to co-found what became it’s important to set an example. “My No. 1 Finn AI with fellow student Jake Tyler, who strategy for getting women into tech and Natalie Cartwright, who has two master’s serves as CEO. The company, which had into finance is to be as ridiculously success- degrees and has lived in eight countries, 55 staff as of January, has developed a ful as I can.” —N.R.

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