Stephen Taylor

Board of Directors, Morguard Corporation, and former Vice President, Real Estate, HOOPP at Morguard Corporation

Speaker

Stephen Taylor has over 45 years of experience in the Canadian real estate industry. He retired as the Vice President, Real Estate for the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) at year end 2019, where he oversaw the Plan’s Canadian and international real estate investment programs, including holdings of nearly $15 billion in office, industrial, retail and residential properties located in Canada, Europe and the United States. HOOPP is one of Canada’s largest pension plans with over $100 billion in net assets and 440,000 members in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining HOOPP in 2014, Stephen worked for 16 years with the Morguard Group of Companies, where he served as President of Morguard Investments Limited, the Group’s real estate advisory and management arm. Over that time Morguard’s portfolio under management grew from $2 billion to over $15 billion. Before joining Morguard he was employed in the Real Estate Division of a major Canadian financial institution (Confederation Life) and in two large Canadian real estate development companies (Markborough Properties and Abbey Glen Property Corporation). Stephen remains active in the real estate industry through involvement in a number of corporate boards and advisory committees. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Morguard Corporation (TSX:MRC) and is on an advisory board for a private real estate technology firm (Refined Data) and a Not-for-Profit research group examining options for eliminating harmful emissions from the heating and cooling of buildings (the Boltzmann Institute). He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and holds a Master’s Degree in Management Studies from Oxford University. Stephen is active in the real estate community – he is the Past Chair of the Board of Directors of REALPAC (the Real Property Association of Canada), and has served as a Board member for NAREIM (the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers) and AFIRE (the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate). He is also engaged in the Not for Profit sector, having been a Board Member and Past Board Chair for Covenant House Toronto (providing shelter for homeless youth) and the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.