Until his retirement in 2015, Mr. Osmar served as Managing Director and Head Market Infrastructure at Royal Bank of Canada based in Toronto for 30 years and New York for five years.

Mr. Osmar was also responsible for implementing RBC Capital Markets regulatory reform initiatives in a range of regulatory areas and jurisdictions notably including the reforms in the Global OTC derivatives space. Mr. Osmar is a former Director of Currency Exchange International Corp and Exchange Bank of Canada. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in 1979 and subsequently earned a Master of Arts degree in Economics from Queens University in 1981.