Media Release
TORONTO / MONTREAL December 12, 2024
The Canadian Regulatory Technology Association (CRTA) is pleased to announce a new board advisory to help advance and drive the organization to the next level. The advisors are David Barrons, Senior Consultant with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario, Edina Cavalli, VP, Strategic Sourcing, Enterprise Procurement Programs, TD Bank and Angelica Wilamowicz, Associate at Gowlings.
The CRTA is a not-for-profit organization focused on solving regulatory challenges through collaborative efforts among key RegTech stakeholders: regulated entities, technology vendors, regulatory bodies, government, and professional service providers.
Commenting on these appointments, Donna Bales, founder and member of the board of directors, said: “The CRTA has done a good job at bringing key stakeholders together and fostering more effective dialogue on key regulatory themes, but we are at an inflection point. It has become clear that the industry is leaning on us more to develop standards and lead more progressive dialogue to bring change to how we innovate and operate within the Canadian financial services ecosystem. These appointments will enable us to be more proactive in how we fulfil this objective”
CRTA Board member Rob Baldassare said: "The regulatory and compliance world is getting ever more complex, and the addition of this new council will add expertise, visibility and insights that will help the CRTA carry out its mission."
New Strategy Advisors
David Barrons
David is a seasoned executive with over 35 years of industry and regulatory expertise with extensive experience leading and mentoring large international cross functional teams.
David is currently working as a Senior Consultant with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario where he leads the Performance Measurement and Valuation Team; he also acts as a Senior Advisor with Accuracy with a mandate to support the build out their financial services practice in North America.
Prior to his current roles, David worked at TD Bank Financial Group for 30+ years focusing on the capital markets business, supporting the TD Securities strategy and growth across its global footprint. At TD Securities, David was responsible for the development of business management, trading supervision, regulatory implementation, governance and non-financial risk management capability within Global Markets trading businesses. He also held executive roles within the TD Securities Global Markets Middle Office and Market Risk Management areas where he played a leadership role in the development of market risk practices and controls as well as the development and implementation of the strategic infrastructure supporting the dealer’s market risk, capital and valuation capabilities.
David earned an MBA from Dalhousie University, a Bachelor of Arts from Western University and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. David is also involved as board member in multiple not-for-profit organizations.
Edina Cavalli
Edina Cavalli is a Vice President in TD's Strategic Sourcing Group and is responsible for Strategy, Market Intelligence, Data Analytics, Preferred Vendor Programs, Operations and ESG.
Prior to her recent role, Ms. Cavalli was a VP at TD's Treasury and Balance Sheet Management Function and the Enterprise Lead for TD's Benchmark Rate Reform Transition and Negative Rates Initiatives. She also acted as the Enterprise Dodd-Frank and G20 Regulatory Reform Liaison for TD’s Corporate Office in Toronto and was the Business Lead for the Enterprise –wide implementation of Volcker Rule requirements.
Previously she led RBC’s US Bank Regulatory Law practice and served as the US Intermediate Holding Company’s Corporate Secretary. While located in New York, she was the Global Head of PE & PI and Risk as well was Americas Head of Funds & Advisory and IBD FIG Advisory Compliance and served as CCO of an SEC registered investment adviser at Barclays Bank.
Ms. Cavalli served as in-house counsel to Carpathian Asset Management and worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, London. She started her career as a solicitor with the debt capital markets practice of CMS Cameron McKenna and with the corporate finance and financial services regulatory practice of Norton Rose in London. Ms. Cavalli is an English qualified solicitor and holds both a common law and a civil law degree.
Angelica Wilamowicz
Angelica is an associate lawyer at Gowlings WLG’s Toronto office and a member of the Financial Services and Technology Group (FSxT)
Angelica works with many clients in the financial services, technology and insurance sectors. She regularly assists on corporate, commercial, regulatory and lending matters pertaining to payments and digitization.
In April 2019 she published an article entitled “The Great Fintech Disruption: InsurTech” in the Banking and Finance Law Review (Thomson Reuters Canada Ltd)
Angelica has a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a MBA from Schulich School of Business.
The Canadian Regulatory Technology Association
The Canadian Regulatory Technology Association is a not-for-profit organization focused on solving regulatory challenges through collaborative efforts between key RegTech stakeholders: regulated entities, technology vendors, regulatory bodies, government and professional service providers. The goal is to facilitate dialogue, raise standards, and promote growth and innovation within the Canadian RegTech eco-system. The organization will endeavour to solve regulatory challenges through collaborative discussion and engagement in proof-of-concept initiatives.
For more information and for details on our membership please see the CRTA website www.canadianregtech.ca
Press contacts: Donna Bales donna@canadianregtech.ca 647-530-8380
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