John Matthew Walsh

John Walsh joined AIMCo as Chief Legal Officer in 2025. Prior to his arrival at AIMCo, Mr. Walsh was General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Timbercreek Capital and Timbercreek Financial. In this role, he had full oversight of all corporate and investment-related compliance obligations. He also oversaw Timbercreek’s corporate legal activities, including fund formation and launches, ongoing capital markets activities, and general corporate operations. Prior to Timbercreek, Mr. Walsh spent 15 years as a senior executive at OPTrust, both as a Managing Director in the Private Markets Group (worldwide infrastructure and private equity investing) and then later as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, where he created and led transaction-based legal, governance, enterprise risk management, compliance, and privacy teams. Before leaving private practice, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Davies Ward and Beck (as it then was) and Osler Hoskin and Harcourt. Mr. Walsh obtained his B.A. in History from Roberts Wesleyan College, his M.A. in Political Science from Carleton University, and his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School.