Mark MacDonald

Mark MacDonald, MBA, ICD.D
SPECIAL ADVISOR

Mark MacDonald has worked with Barlow Capital as a Special Advisor since August 2008.  His role in this capacity is to assist Barlow's portfolio management team execute the deployment of its Private Capital portfolio allocations. Mark is also a member of Barlow's Investment Strategy Committee.

Mark has over 25 years experience in the financial industry, with broad experience in private equity investment management.

Mark was Managing Director of Private Investments at C.A. Bancorp from the spring of 2006 to February, 2009 and helped raise and manage a structured equity capital portfolio, accessing capital from the institutional and high net worth marketplaces.

Prior to joining C.A. Bancorp, Mark was Vice President, Teachers’ Private Capital, the private equity arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. He joined Teachers’ in 1995 and was responsible for originating, structuring, negotiating and managing private equity and mezzanine debt investments in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Prior to Teachers’, he held senior investment management and advisory positions, focused on corporate development, restructuring and lending, and project finance, with organizations such as Citibank Canada, Morgan Financial Corporation and Enterprise Management Group.

Mark has extensive Board of Directors’ experience on both private and public boards in Canada and the U.S., having served on the Board of Trimac Corporation, AT&T Canada, Osprey Media Holdings and Sun Media Corporation, amongst others.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree (Honours) in Economics from Queen’s University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University. Mark is also a graduate of the ICD Corporate Governance College, Directors Education Program and holds the ICD.D designation.

Mark currently sits on the board of High Fidelity HDTV Inc., Everus Communications Inc. and Windward Telecom Ltd.

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