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Giorgio Riva has over 10 years of private equity and investment banking experience. Prior to joining Whitehorse,
Mr. Riva spent 7 years at CPPIB, most recently as Principal within the Secondaries & Co-investment group. In
this role, Mr. Riva had responsibility over CPPIB’s North American secondaries business, originating and
executing on many of CPPIB’s largest secondaries transactions. During his time at CPPIB, he played a key role in
building the secondaries program from 3 to 22 people across two offices and from C$2 billion to C$8 billion with
transactions across traditional limited partner secondaries, fund restructurings and team-spin outs. Mr. Riva has
led secondaries transactions aggregating C$6 billion across over 100 fund interests and over C$600 million in
direct co-investments. Mr. Riva has been recognized by industry publications as a thought leader in the
secondaries market.

Additionally, Mr. Riva represented CPPIB on several limited partner advisory boards in North America and was a
member of investment committees reviewing private equity funds and Asian private equity opportunities.
Prior to joining CPPIB, Mr. Riva worked in the investment banking group at Scotiabank in Toronto. During his
time at Scotiabank, Mr. Riva focused on mergers & acquisitions and equity/debt underwriting for the bank’s
largest relationships across insurance, banking and asset management. Mr. Riva holds a Bachelor of Commerce
and a Master’s degree in economics from McGill University.