The Scotiabank Women Initiative

Loretta Marcoccia was appointed Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer (COO), Global Banking and Markets in November 2018.  In this role, she is responsible for the day-to-day operations of Global Banking and Markets and for developing and implementing strategy and priority initiatives.

Loretta joined Scotiabank in 2015 as Managing Director and COO for Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) before taking on the expanded role of Managing Director and COO of Global Capital Markets. In her most recent role, Loretta led global wholesale operations, regulatory initiatives, global analytics and financial engineering.

Before joining Scotiabank, Loretta previously served as Managing Director and COO at a global corporate and investment banking firm.

Loretta graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a Specialist in Administration. She is a member of Scotiabank’s Inclusion Council and Global Banking and Markets’ Diversity and Inclusion Committee.  She served on the inaugural Board of Directors for Women in Capital Markets.  

Laura Curtis Ferrera, a chartered marketer, currently holds the position of Senior Vice President, Marketing, Global Wealth Management, Global Business Banking and Canadian Retail Banking. Since joining Scotiabank in February 2015, Laura has had an integral role in strategic marketing of the brands within her portfolio domestically and abroad, including the launch of Scotia Wealth Management. 

Within the Global Business Banking portfolio, she has been working to create a consistent client promise and brand experience across all business banking units including notably the launch of the Scotiabank Women Initiative^TM.

Prior to joining Scotiabank, Laura’s prospecting strategies helped Macquarie Private Wealth double their national network of advisors and she developed a comprehensive suite of marketing support resources and services to assist those advisors to serve clients and build revenues. Laura’s boutique marketing team won top ranking for advisor support among all national independent investment firms in Canada in the Investment Executive Brokerage Report Card in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and again in 2014. 

Laura’s marketing interests extend beyond her role at Scotiabank. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian not-for-profit Children’s Aid Foundation and currently a member of the Duke of Edinburgh Board of Governors in Canada.

​Pruyn's responsibilities focus on global equity, which includes Scotiabank’s global presence in institutional equity sales and trading, equity derivatives, prime services and equity research. Since joining Scotiabank in 1998, Pruyn has held progressively senior roles within the capital markets business. He currently chairs the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee within Global Banking and Markets and has previously served as a Director of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC).

Pruyn is currently a board member of the Investment Industry Association of Canada and the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, as well as a member of the SickKids Campaign Cabinet.

He holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and is a CFA Charterholder.

​Rania is responsible for Scotiabank’s global payments vision and strategy. She oversees the Bank’s enterprise-wide payments mandate, including technology infrastructure development, enhancing operational efficiencies and key initiatives to drive growth and create a seamless customer experience. Rania is also responsible for the execution of the cash management, trade finance, global business payments and correspondent banking businesses. Since joining Scotiabank in 1994, she has held progressively senior roles across Commercial Banking, Roynat Capital, and Retail and Corporate Banking, most recently as Senior Vice President, Global Transaction Banking.

Rania holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, Master of Business Administration degree and an honorary doctorate degree from Saint Mary’s University.

Brian is the Global Head of Commodity Derivatives and G10 Foreign Exchange, overseeing the integrated Scotiabank Commodities platform for precious metals, base metals, and energy sales and trading. He joined Scotiabank in 2011, and previously was Global Head of Energy Trading and Sales.

Prior to joining Scotiabank, he held progressively senior roles at CIBC, JP Morgan, TD Securities, Lehman Brothers, and RBC, across Foreign Exchange Sales and Trading, and Commodity Sales and Trading. He has worked in various Canadian and U.S. markets, including Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and New York.

Janet was appointed Vice President, Human Resources Business Partner for Global Banking and Markets in April 2019.  In this role, Janet is accountable for supporting the execution of People related priorities in service of the business strategy within all geographies (Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific and the U.S), and all areas (Corporate & Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Global Business Payments, Operations and Corporate Functions.)

A seasoned HR Executive and Scotiabanker, Janet has held a number of roles within HR including Talent Management, Leadership, and most recently was VP, HR Business Partner for Scotiabank’s International Banking and Digital Banking businesses.

Previous to this, Janet spent time covering Marketing, Strategy and Communications portfolios within Scotiabank’s Wealth Management and International Banking businesses.

Janet holds a Masters of Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has completed a certificate in Strategic Human Resources Planning at the University of Michigan -Stephen M. Ross School of Business.  She has also participated in Scotiabank’s iLead Executive Program at Duke University.

Janet lives in Toronto, and is married with one daughter.  

As Co-Head, Global Investment Banking and Canadian Corporate Banking at Scotiabank, Adam is responsible for Global Investment Banking across all industry groups, Canadian Corporate Banking, Merger and Acquisition activities and Equity Capital Markets. He also oversees the Bank’s investment banking practices in Canada, the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Adam has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, debt, equity and M&A (New York, San Francisco and Toronto). He has advised on over $20 billion of M&A transactions and has helped his clients raise over $100 billion (debt and equity). Adam is a member of a number of committees, including equity liability, new names, and diversity & inclusion. He is also a Board member of the NHL Coaches Association.     

Prior to joining Scotiabank, Adam spent over 11 years at Barclays where he was most recently Head of the North American Depositories group and Head of Canadian FIG. Prior to Barclays, he spent eight years at Citibank in New York, San Francisco and Toronto.

Adam completed his Honours BA at Dalhousie University and his MBA (Finance) at McMaster University. Adam and his wife Allison are the proud parents of three children.

John leads the Bank’s U.S. Capital Markets business and serves as CEO of Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. (“SCUSA”). Additionally, he serves as Head of U.S. Equities, Prime Services and Collateral Management and Funding. John joined Scotiabank in 2010 as Co-head of Global Prime Services to build out the U.S. Global Prime Brokerage offering.

Prior to that John was with Barclays Capital, where he held senior roles within Prime Services, including Head of U.S. Prime Brokerage and Global Head of Electronic Equity Execution, and at Morgan Stanley within their Equity Finance group. John sits on the Global Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee for Scotiabank’s Global Banking & Markets division. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Statistics from Baruch College in NY.