secondment puts total fund management veteran at heart of CPP Investments strategy
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is seconding one of its senior financing leaders to serve as chief of staff to its chief executive.
Bloomberg reports that Sam Dorri, managing director of financing and balance sheet management at CPPIB, is moving into the chief of staff role for chief executive officer John Graham for a one-year stint.
John Sim, a managing director in the total fund management group, will take over Dorri’s financing and balance sheet management responsibilities during that period.
Dorri’s LinkedIn profile lists him as “Chief of Staff - Office of the CEO” from February 2026, on an on-site basis.
It also shows that he has held a permanent full-time managing director role at CPP Investments since June 2021 in “Total Fund Management - Beta, Collateral & Liquidity Management,” with responsibilities that include “Debt Financing, Leverage and +1 skill.”
He joined CPP Investments in June 2020 as a portfolio manager in “Financing, Collateral & Trading,” focusing on debt financing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sim’s LinkedIn page shows that he has worked in fixed income at CPPIB since 2017.
Before joining CPP Investments, Dorri worked in debt capital market roles at Royal Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch, according to his LinkedIn profile.
At RBC Capital Markets, he served as a director in “Debt Capital Markets - Government Finance” in the Toronto area from April 2017 to April 2020, covering and syndicating central government debt, including the Canadian federal government, federal agencies, federal pensions, provinces and CAD-denominated supranational debt.
His earlier roles include serving as vice president and director at Deutsche Bank from 2010 to 2016 in Toronto and London.
From 2004 to 2009, Dorri was a vice president at Merrill Lynch in the Toronto area in “Debt syndication & origination - with focus on cross-border financing.”
His LinkedIn profile notes previously worked as a research analyst at the Bank of Canada from 2003 to 2004.
