Annette Aquin is the Executive Vice-President of Finance and Operations of the Hamilton Community Foundation (HCF). In this capacity, Annette oversees the organization’s finance, investment and administrative activities, and is responsible for all regulatory compliance. She has been instrumental in HCF’s role as a social finance market builder, aligning more of its assets with its mission and multiplying its impact locally, nationally and internationally. Over the course of her 35-year career as a chartered professional accountant, she has worked in public accounting and in the private sector, and has led her own consulting practice. She has served as a director of the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) and the Vancity Community Investment Bank, and is a member of the National Impact Investment Practitioners Table.