Our Leadership Team

As Executive Chairman of People Corporation’s Board of Directors, Laurie is responsible for leading the board in its governance and oversight responsibilities, approving strategy and business goals, and ensuring effective execution thereof. Laurie is one of the co-founders of People Corporation. Under his guidance and leadership, the organization transformed from a regional firm to one with a national presence. Today, People Corporation is one of the largest and fastest growing companies in the group benefits, group retirement, and human resources industry in Canada.

Laurie’s experience also includes being the Chief Operating Officer and President of Assante Corporation, formerly a TSX listed company. During his tenure with Assante, he grew the organization from approximately 100 employees to over 2,500 employees and advisors, managing more than $22 billion in client assets. In 2003, the Canadian operations of Assante were sold. Prior to joining Assante, Laurie was Managing Partner with Arthur Andersen (now Deloitte). Laurie graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba and is a Chartered Accountant. He contributes as a member of the board for both non-profit community organizations and private and publicly traded companies.

André is a managing director in Private Equity within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, primarily focused on investments in the insurance, investment management, and financial technology sectors. He initially joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division and rejoined the firm as a managing director in 2022.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, André worked at OMERS Private Equity, where he helped lead the firm's investments in tech-enabled outsourced services, notably for insurance services, information services, and pharma services. Prior to OMERS, he was a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group. Earlier in his career, André worked as a senior associate at Nautic Partners.

André earned a BSc, with honors, in Finance and International Business from New York University Stern School of Business in 2006, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.

Anthony is a partner in Private Equity within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, leading the financial and information services private equity investing effort in the Americas. Anthony initially joined Goldman Sachs in 2001 in the Investment Banking Division in London. He rejoined the firm in the Merchant Banking Division in London in 2005 and moved to New York in 2007. Anthony was named managing director in 2013 and partner in 2018.

Anthony is a member of the Goldman Sachs Asset Management Corporate Investment Committee and serves on the boards of HUMAN Security, Inhabit IQ, and People Corporation. In addition, he’s a board observer at IrisGuard and serves as a director of American Friends of Leket Israel, a non-profit food rescue organization. Previously, Anthony was a director at Financeit, Genesis Capital, Ipreo Holdings, ProSight Specialty Insurance, and Sigma Electric, and was a board observer at Axioma.

Anthony earned a BSc in Economics, with first class honours, from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of People Corporation, Brevan is responsible for providing leadership and overall strategic direction to our corporation and its subsidiaries. He oversees the company’s operations, policies, procedures, and strategic initiatives set out by the Board of Directors.

As a co-founder of the company, Brevan has been with People Corporation since its inception in 2005, playing a critical and influential role in the strategic and operational growth of the organization. Brevan has held a variety of essential roles: leading acquisitions prior to the company creating a corporate development function, leading the finance function when the company was taken public, running various back office and client services functions, and ultimately leading the Administration, Consulting, Brokerage, and Shared Services business units which culminated in his appointment to President and then President & Chief Executive Officer. Throughout this time, Brevan has furthered his commitment to the company’s mission of helping clients recruit, retain, reward, engage, and care for their employees and plan members. Before joining People Corporation, Brevan held corporate development, finance, and project management roles at CanWest Global Communications and prior to that, at Band-X Ltd., which provided him significant international financial and accounting experience.

Dominic Casserley is a business leader in private and public markets, including during his 30-year career at McKinsey & Company and as Chief Executive Officer of Willis Group, the global insurance broker.

Dominic was at McKinsey & Company from 1983 to 2013, based first in New York, then Hong Kong, and from 2000, in London. As one of McKinsey’s most senior partners, Dominic’s consulting focused on financial services, risk management, and transformations. A McKinsey board member for fourteen years, Dominic oversaw global finances and risk management processes and served eight years on the committee that reviewed senior partners’ performance. Dominic also led McKinsey’s review of its own strategy in 2011, a process that led to a six-year period of growth and change.

Dominic left McKinsey in January 2013 to become the Chief Executive Officer of Willis Group where he undertook a series of acquisitions, transformed the business, and grew revenues and profits significantly until his departure in 2017. He initiated the 2016 merger with Towers Watson to create Willis Towers Watson and oversaw the first year of integration. Since 2017 Dominic has focused on private equity investing. Dominic also has held a range of non-profit leadership positions. In the UK he was the Chairman of the Charities Aid Foundation, a core member of the Davies Commission to increase the number of women on corporate boards, and one of the only four non-academics allowed on the Council (Board) of Cambridge University.

Dominic has also served as a board member for several theatre companies dating back to the 1990s and is currently Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Board at the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York.

Laura Deutscher is a seasoned industry professional and corporate board member with over 35 years of experience in the financial services, insurance, and professional service sectors and was recognized as a Business Insurance’s 2013 Women to Watch honoree. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Women Corporate Directors (WCD), and Extraordinary Women on Boards (EWOB).

In her role as the Chief Financial Officer of Gallagher Bassett she achieved dramatic improvements in business performance including a 43% increase in revenue with accompanying earnings growth of 61%. She also conceived and launched the Finance Architecture Transformation, which set a five-year road map that leveraged technologies and processes to scale the business and support multi-billion-dollar growth targets.

Serving as Executive Vice President and COO of CNA’s eBusiness Unit at CNA Financial Corporation, Laura executed the e-commerce strategy, driving ongoing development of an industry leading platform for the small business market, supporting 2,500 independent agents and $700 million in revenue. Laura led the 200-person organization with a $200 million investment plan through the successful delivery of six major releases. She was Vice President and Controller for the $3.5 billion Commercial Insurance Business unit, responsible for FP&A, Management Reporting, Internal Controls and Compliance, and management of a $730 million expense budget.  

Starting her career in audit at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Laura moved to financial consulting providing services relating to mergers & acquisitions, financing transactions, and business reorganizations participating in over 100 transactions across a varied group of industries.

Phil is a Vice President in Private Equity within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, focused on financial and information services private equity investing. Previously, Phil spent four years in the Private Credit Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, responsible for structuring, executing, and managing leveraged loan, mezzanine debt, and preferred equity investments. Phil initially joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division in New York, focused on mergers and acquisitions within the Industrials sector; he also spent time in Equity Capital Markets in London, providing strategic advice to large companies across the UK.

Phil earned an AB from Princeton University in 2015, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

In 1990, Terry founded Milne Scali & Company Insurance Services (MSC) which he later sold to a publicly traded national bank. Under Terry’s leadership, MSC grew to over $210 million in sales and more than $17 million in commission revenues with net income exceeding 30%. 

In 2006, Terry combined the National Commercial Insurance and Surety Specialist inc. with Mike Lapre Insurance Agency to create Lapre Scali & Company Insurance Services. LLC. In a span of only five years, Lapre Scali & Company grew to over 140 colleagues with annual operating revenues topping $20.5 million.

When NFP Property and Casualty Services acquired Terry’s firm in 2011 he served as Chief Executive Officer and leader of the P&C expansion team. His vision was to grow NFP, which was predominantly an employee benefits broker at the time, into a top full-service brokerage with robust P&C capabilities. In 2018 when Terry transitioned to a new role focusing on broader corporate strategy, he continued to serve as a member of the NFP board, employing his P&C industry experience to help fulfill the company’s vision. Over the course of his tenure at NFP, P&C revenue grew from $50 million to $500 million through a combination of strategic acquisitions and organic growth.

Glenn Spencer is a goal-oriented executive with decades of experience helping organizations achieve and exceed their strategic and operational business objectives. Glenn brings over 35 years of experience in leading professional services organizations. Since 2018, he’s served as the Chief Executive Officer of Prime Capital Investment Advisors, one the fastest growing investment advisory firms in the United States, having more than quadrupled their revenues and grown their offices by tenfold in less than five years.

Prior to his current role, Glenn spent 30 years in the insurance industry, with 27 years in the employee benefits consulting, risk management consulting, and corporate insurance brokerage segments. Over his career, Glenn has held leadership roles in sales and business development, operational leadership, and numerous senior executive roles. He spent 13 years with Marsh McLennan Companies in progressive leadership roles culminating in being the Chief Operating Officer of their Baltimore and Washington, DC operations. He also spent two years as the Managing Partner of Palmer and Cay’s Northeast Region which spanned eight offices from Richmond, Virginia to Boston, MA.   From 2005-2017, Glenn spent 12 years with Lockton Companies; during this tenure, Lockton grew from less than 1,000 employees, 10 offices and less than $300 million in revenues, to more than 6,500 employees, over 130 offices, and more than $1.5 billion in revenues. Throughout his time with Lockton, Glenn held the positions of US Chief Operating Officer, Global Chief Operating Officer, President of US Operations, and Global President & Chief Executive Officer.

Glenn has served on various corporate and industry boards including Prime Capital Investment Advisors, Lockton Inc., Lockton International, Western Extralite, Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers, American Management Association Risk Management Board, Junior Achievement of Washington, DC, and Gamma Iota Sigma Board of Advisors. Glenn is a graduate of The George Washington University (BBA, Finance).