Gopikannan Pillai
Principal - Legal, Risk and Compliance
Gopi’s has over 20 years of experience in the Canadian commercial real estate banking space, in relation to managing financial, legal and compliance risk. Currently, Gopi is a Trustee for Canna 8 Investment Trust and is a Director for Shine Box Capital Corp., both TSX venture listed capital corporations. Prior to that, Gopi spent close to a decade at GE Capital where he led the transactional and regulatory compliance for its Canadian operations. Some of his career highlights includes: GE’s $2.4B post acquisition integration of compliance and operational strategies of Dundee REIT. Successfully project managed and migrated the operating entities to a new regulator and completed multiple regulatory audits. Implementing new Risk Based AML and Privacy platform for Canada.
Gopi sat on GE`s Global Compliance Review Board which was responsible for identifying key regulators and developed a system to monitor and handle regulatory changes. Gopi received his Master of Laws from University of Toronto, Canada and Bachelor of Laws from University of Madras, India. He is currently called to the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, India.
