Our Team

John is currently the Honorary Chairman of CBRE Limited and has served as Chairman of the Board of Slate Office REIT. John currently Chairs the Investment Committee of BentallGreenOak and the Investment Committee on the Board of CT REIT. He is a member of the Real Estate Advisory Committee for The University of Toronto, an advisor to AMICO Infrastructure, and has chaired the Advisory Board of Broccolini Corporation. John is a member of The Institute of Corporate Directors and has completed the Competent Boards ESG Certificate Programme.
John has over 45 years experience in the real estate industry and was Chairman of CBRE Limited. Prior to joining CBRE in 2008, John was a Managing Director of TD Securities. John started his career at A.E.Le Page where he founded the Appraisal Division and went on to became a Senior Vice President in charge of the national brokerage operations. John has also served in the following roles: Director of REALpac, President and Lifetime Achievement Recipient of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), a member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). John also holds an honours degree in Estate Management. John continues to be active in many community initiatives and most recently chaired the JDRF campaign for the Canadian real estate industry.

Kristen Ede is a Real Estate Executive and Portfolio Manager with an exceptional track record of creating value in real estate assets over a 3-decade career. She has informed strategy and acquired or managed over $12B of real estate assets for blue chip private (BentallGreenOak) and public (Kimco REIT, Trizec Properties) companies in Canada, as well as served as Chief Operating Officer of two boutique private equity real estate funds.
Kristen holds a Master of Laws for Global Professionals from the University of Toronto, a Masters of Business Administration from Queen’s University, and an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Lakehead University as well as Executive Management Certificates from Harvard Business School.
Kristen sits on the Urban Land Institute’s Mixed-Use Platinum Council. She is a Trustee and Investment Committee member on the Board of Trustees at Eglinton St George’s United Church, where she also Chairs the Refugee Steering Committee.

Stephen Taylor has over 45 years 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, Mr. Taylor 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).
Mr. Taylor 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 University of Toronto graduate with 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.

Tammy Pighin Moore has a breadth of experience that allows her to uniquely contribute at a strategic leadership level. As an entrepreneur, Tammy started a successful marketing agency with a diverse clientele including publicly-traded companies, government agencies and manufacturers. Within the real estate sector, her firm marketed over $3B of residential and recreational real estate. Applying this broad experience to a management consulting practice, Tammy worked with private equity firms, contributing at a leadership level through acquisition and restructuring. Tammy is currently the CEO of a national not-for-profit profit with a mission that extends from directly supporting individuals living with a terminal disease through to long-term investments in research and advocating for system change at a national and international level.
A seasoned governance expert, Tammy has served on Boards internationally, nationally and regionally – including the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations – Board, Innovation & Technology Advisory Council, Advocacy Committee; Health Charities Coalition of Canada; Palliative Care Matters; BC Cancer Agency – Southern Interior; Women’s Enterprise Centre of BC, and local arts and service organizations.