Ralph Gill

Overview

Dr. Gill comes to TRSM with broad experience in business, government, and academia. Prior to joining the Ted Rogers School of Management, Dr. Gill pursued a career in investment banking at major U.S. and Canadian firms and in private investing. As a banker, he participated in the privatization of Petro-Canada, the sale of Highway 407, and the restructuring and recapitalization of Ontario Hydro into Hydro One and Ontario Power Generation. He has also advised and participated in a variety of transactions for emerging growth companies and private equity clients, with a recent focus on acquisition and strategic consolidation opportunities in the legal generative artificial intelligence space. As the sole Canadian political appointee in the first Bush Administration, he served as Chief Financial Officer of the Resolution Trust Corporation Oversight Board, the cabinet-level agency responsible for resolving the nation’s failed thrifts after the savings and loan crisis which involved the sale and securitization of the largest portfolio of real estate assets in U.S. history. Dr. Gill has previously taught at Yale College, the Yale School of Management, and Georgetown University; he was a Fellow in Sociology and Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and a Visiting Scholar and Researcher at Harvard Law School, and has been a Guest Lecturer at Dartmouth College and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.  Dr. Gill’s research interests focus on the dynamic relationships among corporate governance, corporate culture, and innovation; he holds degrees in law, economics, and business from Yale, Oxford, and the University of Toronto.