Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Advisor, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

Dr Mark Machin is Co-Founder and CEO of Opto Investments. He is also an advisor to the GIC Investment Strategies Committee. From 2016 to 2021, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Pension Plan Investments (CPP Investments, previously known as CPPIB). He joined CPP Investments in 2012 and was Senior Managing Director and Head of International based in Hong Kong. Prior, Dr Machin had a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong where for 11 years he headed Capital Markets and Investment Banking in Asia ex-Japan. He is also on the board of the Atlantic Council and Serendipity Capital.

Dr Machin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physiological Sciences from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Cambridge University.