My educational background is an undergraduate degree in Business Administration (HBA)m from the University of Western Ontario (1984), and a joint MBA with McGill University, Montreal, and L'Institut Superieur des Affairs, Jouey-en-Josas, France, in 1987.

I have been in the financial services industry since 1987.

Beginning in London, UK, I worked for a large Japanese brokerage firm dealing with institutional clients in the UK and Sweden - pension funds, insurance companies, wealth management firms and unit trusts.

I transferred to the Singapore office of the same firm (the first non-Japanese staff to ever be transferred to another office in this fashion), where I developed experience in Asian markets, visiting companies in the region, writing reports, and continuing to deal with institutional clients back in the UK and Sweden.

I became an independent trader at a large Singapore company, where for 5 years I traded my own capital on the floor. After moving back to Canada, I worked as a trader on the floor of a Toronto firm.

After being repeatedly asked for advice by friends and family, I finally decided to join Manulife Securities Incorporated as a Financial Advisor. Manulife Securities Incorporated, my sponsoring dealer, is fully licensed under IIROC, (Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada), and I am fully life insurance licensed, and also hold the Canadian Investment Manager, and Branch Manager designations.