Lois Tullo

CRO/CCO, Professor, Author, Exec-in-Res Lois Tullo has over 30 years of business, risk and technology experience at the Board, CRO/CFO, and Academic level.
Lois Tullo is CRO & CCO at Novera Capital Inc. Novera Capital is a blockchain digital asset capital firm focusing in the area of providing liquidity to the market through regulated secure synthetic derivatives. She has been teaching risk management and financial services at the Schulich School of Business for the past 24 years at the executive, MBA, and undergraduate level. Schulich has awarded her the John Peace Prize for outstanding contribution to teaching.
She is an Executive in Residence with the Global Risk Institute. She is the author of “COVID-19: Implications, how did we get her? How and where do we go from here?”, “Back to the Future: 2007 to 2030”, “The Global Risks and Trends Framework” and “Risk Management – ERM Canadian Best Practices, How did they get there?” She is the Canadian expert in the research and management of Nonfinancial risk. Ms. Tullo was previously CRO & CCO at BlockMine Development Inc. BMD developed a blockchain platform to issue Regulated Security Tokens (STO’s). She was CFO at CIBC Finance Inc, responsible for Finance, Treasury, HR and interim risk management. She led a $6 billion portfolio of car loans and student loans. She securitized one of the first portfolios of car loans in Canada. Director of Finance, Business Process Redesign, and Human Resources at Unitel Communications. Early in her careers she was a Management consultant at Nolan, Norton Canada/KPMG. She worked in Ethiopia with Food for the Hungry, a relief and development organization. At TransCanada Pipeline, she provided systems design was a data analysis. She holds her CPA,C.A. and she articled with Clarkson Gordon Toronto (E&Y) and PWC in Calgary. She has an MBA from The Ivy School of Business, a B.Comm from the University of Saskatchewan, and holds her C.C.O and ICD.D designations. Ms. Tullo is currently the Chair of the Board at Urban Promise, Jlt & Associates, VC of The Richview Residence Foundation, and a former Board of Director for Jameson Bank, The Boulevard Club, and the Girl Guides of Canada.