Randy has over 35 years of experience advising employers, plan trustees, governments, executives, unions, administrators, pension consultants and financial institutions on all aspects of pensions, benefits and executive compensation matters.  Since 1983 Randy has been involved in many of the leading pensions and benefits cases in Canada, including Schmidt, Dominion Stores, HOOPP, Maple Leaf Foods, Indalex, Dayco, Stelco, and Nortel, not to mention the recent ongoing Beer Store matter in which a court last year made the highest cost award ever granted against a pension regulator in favour of his client, the employer and the pension plan members. He has also had important international assignments from foreign governments and non-governmental agencies. For example, he assisted the Governments of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in drafting the Northern Employees Benefits Services Pension Plan, a modern, sustainable defined benefit pension plan for public and private sector workers in Canada's far north;  he lead a team that helped Bermuda design, draft and implement its National Pension Scheme; he has provided Canadian advice to the United Nations on ESG and climate change investment policy for pension funds and other institutional investors. 

Randy also has practical governance and leadership experience as a plan trustee, as President of one of Canada's leading theatre companies and as a director of institutions in the scientific, education, medical technology, data management, healthcare and entertaninment sectors, including the Canadian Cancer Society, the University of Waterloo, the Scarborough Health Network Foundation and the Canadian National Exhibition Association.

Randy is widely respected for his depth of expertise on pension fund governance, regulatory and investment issues.  He is considered a passionate, engaged and creative problem solver.  

As a result of his experience as a corporate director and benefit plan trustee, Randy understands the importance of perspective in providing practical and useable advice. His clients often comment on his creativity in resolving complex problems to achieve workable solutions that are sustainable. They also acknowledge his willingness to get into the trenches and fight tenaciously to achieve the best result possible.