Bruce Hogg

Head of Power and Renewables, CPPIB

Bruce Hogg

Head of Power and Renewables, CPPIB

Biography

Bruce Hogg is the Head of the recently-established Power & Renewables (P&R) team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). His mandate is to build a diversified global portfolio of value-add power and renewables investments, taking advantage of growing market opportunities as the energy sector transitions and global power demand grows, especially for low-carbon energy alternatives.

Since its establishment in late 2017, the group has invested approximately C$2.8 billion in three transactions across North America, South America and Europe.

Most recently, Bruce was Managing Director, Head of Americas for Infrastructure where he was responsible for teams in Toronto, Sao Paulo and Sydney. Prior to joining the CPP Investment Board in October 2007, Bruce led the private markets infrastructure team at OPTrust. Previously, he spent a number of years working with Macquarie Bank in London and Toronto in corporate finance after having worked in investment banking at RBC Dominion Securities.

Bruce holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Toronto.

CPPIB is a professional investment management organization that invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to pay current benefits on behalf of 20 million contributors and beneficiaries. In order to build a diversified portfolio of CPP assets, CPPIB invests in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, Sao Paulo and Sydney, CPPIB is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm’s length from governments. At June 30, 2018, the CPP Fund totalled C$366.6 billion.