MAC VAN WIELINGEN BIOGRAPHY
Mac Van Wielingen is an investment management executive, corporate director, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His vision, knowledge, and insights have been developed through extensive experience in building and directing businesses, with a focus on leadership and governance.
Currently, Mac is the founder and chair of Viewpoint Group and a co-founder of Viewpoint Investment Partners (VIP). VIP is a global, multi-asset, quantitatively-focused investment management company offering specialized strategies to high net-worth families and institutional investors. He is a founder, director (1989-2018), and partner (present) of ARC Financial Corporation, the largest private equity investment management company in Canada focused on the energy sector, with approximately $6 billion of capital under management.
In 2019, Mac was a founding member of the Business Council of Alberta, and currently serves as chair of the board (2022). The Business Council of Alberta was created with the purpose of “making life better” for Albertans and all Canadians.
He served on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Corporate Directors (ICD) (2018-2022) and was a member of the Chart the Future Committee sponsored by the ICD and TMX Group (2020-2022). This Committee was created to review how corporate governance in Canada must evolve to support competitiveness and contribute to positive societal outcomes.
Mac served as chair of the Board of Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) (2014-2017), where he joined as an original director in 2007. AIMCo is the fifth largest investment management company in Canada, managing approximately $165 billion on behalf of 32 endowment, pension, and government funds in the province of Alberta.
Mac is also a founder and former chair (1996-2016) of ARC Resources Ltd., a leading company in Canada’s oil and gas sector. In 2015 and 2016, while Mac was chairman of the Board, ARC Resources was ranked #1 in Brendan Wood International’s Shareholder Confidence Index in the Energy and Power Group and was selected as the TopGun Board of the Year. In addition, the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance selected ARC Resources as the 2016 recipient of the Governance Gavel Award, presented for the Best Disclosure of Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Practices.
Mac served on the Alberta Economic Recovery Council (ERC) from March 2020 to July 2022, and previously served on the advisory committee that created the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (AIOC).
Mac is a founding partner of the Creative Destruction Lab and is part of the Platform Advisory Roundtable as an honorary member, which provides counsel and support to the Platform Innovation Centre in Calgary.
In 2012, Mac co-founded the Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership (CCAL) at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and served as chair of the External Advisory Group from 2012-2020.
His lifelong passion for learning and sharing keeps him actively involved in speaking engagements, writing pursuits, and community events, with the goal of advancing dialogue and positive change among directors and business leaders.
Mac is an honours graduate of the Ivey School of Business in finance and has studied post-graduate economics at Harvard University.