Our Partners

With over 15 years in Banking, Jeff has worked in both Commercial and Private Banking. With a broad and deep knowledge base spanning across both lines of business, Jeff is able to find the right solutions for his client’s needs.

Jeff spent 14 years in Commercial banking as Senior Relationship Manager Canadian Commercial Banking, Director – Corporate Finance, and 7 years as VP Commercial Banking leading a team of sales professionals. Jeff’s breadth of experience in Commercial Banking is particularly important for his Business-for-Self clients as he has the breadth and depth of knowledge to understand how our client’s business operate and in turn how it builds wealth.

Magnus is passionate about providing high net worth individuals, families and business owners with comprehensive financial planning advice and solutions, including cash flow and retirement needs analysis, tax planning strategies, risk management, philanthropy and estate planning. Drawing on his experience in tax and public accounting, his clients benefit from a depth of insight and unique foresight into a diverse range of situations, facilitating actionable recommendations.

Sarah graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Commerce, with a focus on Finance and Risk Management. She joined the financial industry in 2006 and been helping with high net worth families achieve their goals ever since. She assists high net worth families with complex affairs, to preserve, grow and transition their wealth to future generations. 

Sarah has enjoyed a very successful and impressive career to date, being a leading professional consultant in the insurance industry for major financial services firms. With over 12 years of experience in the Wealth Management industry, Sarah believe in long term, trusting relationships and works closely with advisors and their clients to provide customized solutions and strategies to meet their assets, and growing their estate. She provides each advisor, and their clients, with professional customer service and efficient timelines. Sarah is able to provide advice on Life Insurance, Critical Illness, Disability and Long Term Care.

Phil assists high net worth individuals and families in structuring their personal and corporate affairs in a tax-efficient manner. Leveraging more than a decade of experience in the tax and assurance advisory space for private companies and their owners, Phil knows that his clients care about the “big picture” and how taxation factors into that from a practical perspective. His areas of expertise include owner-manager compensation, corporate reorganizations & divestitures, business succession, estate planning, charitable giving, and other related tax planning matters.  

As part of BMO Philanthropic Advisory Services, Karen is a specialist in philanthropic planning and execution, helping families develop and execute strategic plans aligned to their charitable giving priorities. The demand for strategic advice on philanthropy is growing. Increasingly, Canadians are
looking for guidance on how to make a meaningful and tax-efficient impact with their donations to causes that are important to them. When done strategically, this can have an immense impact on one’s financial well-being and, perhaps more importantly, the legacy left behind.

Karen joined BMO Private Wealth in 2011 as a High Net Worth Planner, following progressively senior roles in the financial services industry that specialized in wealth planning, marketing and communications, and business development. In these roles, Karen engaged clients in meaningful conversations about their family’s needs and desires, providing strategies to meet their goals in the
most tax-efficient manner possible, all within the framework of a comprehensive and holistic approach to wealth planning,