Bert Clark named president and CEO for Infrastructure Ontario

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) recently announced Bert Clark as its new president and CEO.

He will begin his new role on Aug. 7, 2012 and was also nominated to the IO’s board of directors.

Clark spent the past four years as the managing director of Scotia Capital’s Global Infrastructure Finance Group. Previous to that role, he worked for IO as its senior vice-president of projects.

While working for IO, Clark established procurement practices designed to ensure the IO’s public infrastructure projects were completed on time and on budget.

Clark held the role of senior policy advisor to the Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2005 and assisted in the creation of Ontario’s first long-term infrastructure investment plan.

He worked at Toronto law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP for five years, before taking on the senior policy advisor in 2003.