Peter Slan, MBA, FCPA, FCA

SmartCentres (TSX: SRU.UN) is one of Canada’s largest fully integrated REITs, with a best-in-class portfolio featuring 197 strategically located properties in communities across the country. SmartCentres has approximately $12 billion in assets consisting of income producing value-oriented retail, purpose-built rental, first-class office and self-storage properties. SmartCentres owns 35.6 million square feet of leasable space with 98.6% in place and committed occupancy, on 3,500 acres of owned land across Canada.

Founder and head of Scotiabank’s family office business with responsibility for the bank’s largest and most valuable enterprise-wide clients, focusing on clients with particularly complex needs. Additional responsibilities for Scotiabank’s wealth management businesses in Bahamas and Cayman Islands, the bank’s representative office in Miami and its joint venture with Bank of Beijing in China. Led a team of over 100 people across five cities, overseeing client assets in excess of $20 billion. ► Provided advice and solutions to multiple large, global, single-family office clients, each with assets at Scotiabank in excess of $1 billion. ► Served for six years on Scotiabank’s Global Wealth Management Executive Committee responsible for setting the bank’s global strategy in wealth management across all client segments and geographies. ► Attracted new client assets from prominent families in Canada, the U.S. and internationally of more than $6 billion during last year of tenure.

Enhanced board effectiveness in corporate governance, diversity, nominations, transformation, risk management, and succession planning across multiple boards of directors: ► Chair, The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company (Bahamas) Limited, Bahamas, 2015-21 ► Director, Bank of Beijing Scotiabank Asset Management Co., Ltd., Beijing, 2017-21 ► Director, BOB Scotia International Asset Management Company Limited, Hong Kong, 2017-21 ► Director, Scotia Investments Jamaica Limited (JSE: SIJL), Jamaica, 2017-20 ► Shareholders’ Committee Member, Banco Colpatria Multibanca Colpatria S.A., Colombia, 2017-19

Responsible for all of Scotiabank’s wealth management, asset management and pensions business units outside of Canada. Led a team including six vice-presidents, with a combined total of 2,280 employees; Operations in 15 countries, mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean; Total client assets of $112 billion and net income of $235 million in fiscal 2019. ► Doubled Scotiabank’s mutual fund business in Chile through the acquisition of BBVA Chile. ► Drove efforts to bring the asset management expertise from Scotiabank’s acquisition of Jarislowsky, Fraser Ltd. to the bank’s international footprint in Latin America and the Caribbean. ► Launched Scotiabank’s wealth management presence in Colombia with the acquisition of Citibank’s local operations, integrating a team of 28 people in three wealth management offices managing US$320 million of client assets. ► Optimized Scotiabank’s pensions businesses through the divestitures of Scotia Crecer AFP in the Dominican Republic to Grupo Rizek and AFP Colfondos in Colombia to AFP Habitat. ► Served on both the International Banking and Global Wealth Management Executive Committees.

Reporting to the bank’s CFO, with responsibility for all of Scotiabank’s external financial communications, including quarterly earnings releases, M&A announcements, conference calls, and investor presentations. ► Principal bank executive liaison for the 17 research analysts and four rating agencies who offer investment opinions to the marketplace concerning Scotiabank. ► Drove Scotiabank’s financial communications efforts to the capital markets during a period of unprecedented activity, including the acquisitions of Banco Colpatria, Tangerine (formerly ING Direct) and DundeeWealth, as well as smaller acquisitions in Latin America and Asia; and the bank’s poison pill negotiations and ultimate divestiture of its stake in CI Financial. ► Received the IR Magazine award for Canada's “Best Investor Relations During a Corporate Transaction” for Scotiabank’s $3.2 billion acquisition of DundeeWealth. ► Co-ordinated the bank’s $1.7 billion common share issuance to finance the acquisition of Tangerine. ► Launched Scotiabank’s practice of hosting an annual institutional investor day. ► Led shareholder solicitation efforts during Scotiabank’s initial adoption of a “say-on-pay” resolution at its Annual General Meeting. ► Regularly presented to the bank’s board of directors on the capital markets’ views on Scotiabank. ► Oversaw the bank’s Sarbanes-Oxley audit and reporting practice, and served on the bank’s executive steering committee supervising the adoption of IFRS accounting standards.

Responsibilities included advising clients on Initial Public Offerings, follow-on equity offerings and Mergers & Acquisitions from progressively senior roles, including Managing Director in Investment Banking, and Equity Capital Markets, as well as Head, Private Equity Sponsor Coverage Group. Selected to participate in an 8-month secondment for high potential employees to Scotiabank’s Executive Project Office reporting to the bank’s Vice Chair and Chief Operating Officer. ► Advised on capital markets financings totaling more than $12 billion, with a primary focus on real estate ($4 billion), consumer products ($2 billion), and infrastructure/utilities ($2 billion). ► Underwrote more than $4.6 billion of Initial Public Offerings during one of the most active periods for IPOs in Canadian history.

Focused on clients in the real estate and consumer products sectors in both the Corporate Finance and the Audit areas of the firm.