Legend Power Systems Inc.

Jan Carr

Jan Carr was the Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Power Authority from the time of its founding in January 2005 until September 2008. Prior to that, he was Vice Chair of the Ontario Energy Board during its transition from a government department to a self-funding independently operated tribunal.

Dr. Carr has more than 35 years of experience in the electricity sector as a professional engineer, holding senior positions in the design and planning of electricity transmission and distribution systems. He has worked on projects in many parts of the world, including Asia, Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. He has been a consultant to utilities, governments and other stakeholders on the financial, business, strategic and policy aspects of the electric power industry.

He is a member of the Board of the Alberta Electric System Operator which is responsible for long-range planning of the provincial system as well as its operation through a competitive wholesale electricity market. He is also an independent member of Gowlings International Strategic Advisory Group, providing business advice to both the firm’s international law practice and its clients. Dr. Carr has served on the Board of Directors of both TransAlta Power, a publicly traded generation company, and Macquarie Canadian Infrastructure Management, a privately held infrastructure investment fund. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Competition in Ontario’s Electricity System (the Macdonald Committee) and Chairman of the Electricity Task Force of the Toronto Board of Trade. He was a publicly elected Commissioner and Chairman of the municipally-owned electric utility serving the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake and a board member and regional Chair of the Municipal Electric Association (today’s Electricity Distributors Association) in Ontario.

In 2007 he received a medal for Management in the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards.