{"id":1,"name":"blue","url":"","description":"Until recently, I was the head of Corporate Development at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) where among other responsibilities, I was responsible for the Innovation portfolio, the development and launch of international joint ventures, and the creation of strategic access platform development in healthcare, life sciences and media\/communications.  \r\n\r\nI was a key advisor to OMERS and to government during the privatization of OMERS from the provincial government and acted as the negotiation manager and drafter of the agreements among unions, professional organizations and employers during the initiative.\r\n\r\nI have also had the privilege of working with some very special people in the pioneering, developing and launching a number of initiatives designed to increase collaboration and joint venture among global institutional investors, including the Institutional Investors Round Table.  I have been an active member of the Sherpa Committee of the Long Term Investors Club, on the Board of the Quebec City Conference, and on investment committees of a number of public \/ private sector partnerships investing in economic development and technology driven business.\r\n\r\nI have had an opportunity to develop broad experience as an executive and senior advisor in business, investment, financial institutions, and government and the public sector, in areas of governance, finance and policy, corporate strategy, financial analysis and commercialization.\r\n\r\nMy academic background in physics and mathematics, and have also studied finance and international law.  I have been active in charitable institutions working in global health and with indigenous persons.\r\n\r\nRecently,  I developed a rare neuromuscular condition, perhaps as a result of a very lovely and special meal that I had enjoyed with dear friends while visiting Fez, Morocco as part of a Sherpa Round of the Long Term Investors Club, or perhaps a thanksgiving dinner served out of a messy family kitchen.  Initially diagnosed as GBS, as the disease lingered, the diagnosis was changed to CIDP, and then further to CMT disease.  At this point, we have a working diagnosis that it is all of the above.  But my medical team has been successful at arresting the progression, so whatever the diagnosis is, the treatment is working.","link":"http:\/\/haggerty-weisse.com\/?author=1","slug":"admin","avatar_urls":{"24":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b21dc622e8ad10d72eb3cdd1025f8cd2?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b21dc622e8ad10d72eb3cdd1025f8cd2?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b21dc622e8ad10d72eb3cdd1025f8cd2?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haggerty-weisse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haggerty-weisse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}