With over 20 years of experience in wealth and portfolio management, Ryan specializes in servicing the unique needs of affluent clients, along with building personalized investment strategies for individuals, families, charities, foundations, and corporations.

Ryan’s investment philosophy was built on the understanding that no two clients are the same. He emphasizes spending time with each client to gain insight into their values and lifestyle. Ryan strives to develop long-term, custom-tailored strategies to preserve and protect the wealth that his clients have spent a lifetime building.

Ryan believes that informed clients make better decisions, placing the utmost value on providing ongoing communication and education through various channels. In turn, his clients gain an understanding – and with it, comfort around recommended strategies and why they are suitable.

While Ryan’s interest in finance developed from a young age, he quickly learned that his fascination with the industry went beyond market analysis and investment opportunity, to a personalized dimension of financial advice. Once he began working one-on-one with clients, he was able to implement unique strategies to help match investments with the psychology of the individual investor, helping to bridge the gap between the academic approach and its practical application to the everyday lives of people.

Ryan is active in several charitable organizations, including promoting financial education for Canadian youth. In his free time, Ryan enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, avidly reading, searching for unique collectibles, and striving to improve his game on the golf course.

Ilya’s primary responsibilities are focused on research, quantitative analysis, financial modelling, and asset allocation. His keen interest and attention to detail serve to seek high quality financial opportunities for our clients.

Ilya graduated with a Bachelors of Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Waterloo, with a focus on capital markets and economics. He has various professional experience in financial audits, buy-side asset management, and institutional fixed income sales & trading.

He has a passion for capital markets, across a broad spectrum of asset classes such as equities, commodities, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives. In his spare time, Ilya enjoys conducting research for capital market assets through fundamental and technical analysis, with thorough corroboration of macro- and micro-economic factors. Furthermore, Ilya enjoys modelling quantitative data to develop investment strategies and experiment with algorithmic trading.

Sebastian focuses on strengthening our day-to-day operations and enhancing client communications and outreach. Sebastian graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the DeGroote School of Business, with a focus on finance and harbours prior experience within the Financial Services industry centred around financial reporting and claim analysis. Sebastian is passionate about people and aims to deliver the best client experience. He is keen on entering the world of wealth management and taking his Canadian securities course. Sebastian is an avid photographer who enjoys partaking in nature and street photography. He also is a powerlifter and has competed with McMaster's Powerlifting Club.

With over 20 years of experience in the life insurance industry, Aram works with affluent families, business owners and executives to create tax efficient insurance based strategies that build and safeguard wealth. Insurance planning with both personal or corporate wealth is tailored to each client with the end goal of providing certainty that enhances the lives of clients, their families and businesses.

Aram strongly believes best results are achieved through a holistic team approach. He will work collaboratively with other trusted advisors ensuring wealth is sheltered for both future generations and philanthropic aspirations.

Aram is fully committed to his profession and views continuing education as vital. He has earned several industry designations, including the Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP), Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Financial Management Advisor (FMA), Certified Health Insurance Specialist (CHS) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designations. It is his knowledge, experience and high ethical standards that allows him to add value and educate each client.

As CIBC’s tax expert, Jamie supports CIBC Wood Gundy investment advisors in delivering integrated financial planning and advisory solutions to our high-net-worth clients. Jamie is quoted frequently in the national media and writes a weekly National Post column called Tax Expert.

Chris specializes in providing financial planning services to high net worth clients. He is committed to providing holistic financial planning and customized strategies to assist them with their goals around wealth accumulation, preservation and distribution. Chris holds his CFP and PFP designations, bringing over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and maintains his dedication towards ongoing professional development. Chris has been a financial planner for 16 years and throughout he has provided clients with value; creating plans which serve as the framework for their financial aspirations.