Chris Hind

Chris is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Cordelio Power, a renewable power development company with 1.8 GW of operating assets in Canada and the United States and an approximate 18 GW development pipeline focused on wind and battery storage in the United States.  Cordelio is a wholly-owned portfolio company of CPP Investments with its head office in Toronto, Canada.

Chris brings 30 years of experience across the renewable energy sector, private equity investment and investment banking, with the last 15 years of his career focused on energy infrastructure. Prior to joining Cordelio, Chris was a Managing Director in the Sustainable Energies Group (“SEG”) at CPP Investments, with leadership responsibility for renewable power and regulated utility investments in the Americas. He represented CPP Investments as a board member of Cordelio Power, Puget Sound Energy and Pattern Energy, as well as other companies in the mid-stream sector in North and South America. 

Prior to CPP Investments, Chris spent 18 years in a variety of investment and merchant banking roles, including Managing Director and Head of Energy M&A at CIBC Capital Markets as well as three years in the audit and corporate finance groups at PwC.

Chris holds a Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto Rotman, where he was a Governor General Gold Medalist, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant.