OTPP Taps Ord for Enterprise Data

Data management veteran Rob Ord has joined the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan as director of enterprise data platforms, responsible for overseeing the organization’s enterprise data platform capabilities that support its asset management business. This includes oversight of architecture, modeling, data acquisition and reporting, and for collaborating with developers and business staff to produce solutions for portfolio management, compliance and fund reporting activities.

Ord was most recently director of valuation product control at BMO Financial Group, prior to which he spent seven years at Scotiabank as director and head of data management.

Before that he was director and partner at data management consultancy LakeFront Data Ventures. Before that, he spent a decade working alongside LakeFront co-founder Dale Richards at SunGard, where Ord was VP of enterprise data management; at Fame Information Services (acquired by SunGard), where he was director of consulting sales; and Benton Associates, where he was director of sales and account management.