John is a serial entrepreneur with a history of success building profitable financial services organizations. He has transformed his vision for the wellbeing of Canadian families into highly successful companies, recruiting and motivating large high-performing teams. John has an exceptional understanding of the financial planning and life needs of Canadians through having conducted hundreds of kitchen table financial consultations. Previously he founded Debt Freedom Canada and built it into a national organization with a captive sales force focused on the financial needs of middle-class Candians. John was previously Senior Vice President at Primerica Canada for 10 years, and has been on the Board of Directors and an Advisor to various FinTech companies.

Eric is an experienced Product VP in the Financial Services and FinTech space with a speciality in digital assets, payments, analytics and project management. His background includes over 5 years at CIBC where he led analytics and project management initiatives to improve business operations and the success of various retail/business product lines. He also worked in a management capacity in the Retail and Small Business Lending area at ScotiaBank. Eric started his career as an IT consultant working with various consulting firms. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and Master of Business Administration from Ryerson University, and a Master of Finance from the Rotman School of Management.

Linda is an experienced technology industry marketing and growth VP with a speciality in FinTech. Her background includes marketing leadership roles for multiple emerging Canadian and Silicon Valley companies such as Blockstation, Blanc Labs, Coinchange, Clarity Systems and Aduva. She also previously held marketing leadership positions at KPMG, IBM and Telesat. Linda has launched or repositioned more than 20 companies and launched 35 new products/services in her career. She has also taken 5 companies public as an investor relations professional. Linda is a volunteer advisor to emerging companies through MaRS Discovery District. Her educational background includes two degrees in business and marketing from the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.

Courtney is a marketing, events and project management professional. She has a track record of success in the financial services industry including almost eight years at Debt Freedom Financial Services as Events and Marketing Director. Her past experience also includes Corporate Event Planner at Union Gas and Events Manager at Priority One Insurance. Courtney has achieved multiple educational certificates in her field from Western University, York University and Sheridan College.

Bonnie is a financial planning professional with more than 14 years of industry background. Her experience includes regional sales for a leading insurance company, business development and marketing roles for two leading MGAs (Managing General Agents), and branch management for a mutual fund company. She also operated her own financial planning and consulting practice. Bonnie’s heart lies in the training and motivating teams. She is known for providing direct and sound financial advice to clients. Bonnie is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), a Chartered Financial Divorce Specialist (CFDS), and is a graduate of York University’s Family Mediation Program.

Paul has a passion for computer programming and has been engaged in various projects, languages and tools since eight grade. His background includes roles as a software engineer and developer for various early stage and consulting companies such as Planswell, Rangle, Plumtales, Enginuity Group and PT7 Inc. His interests include contributing to the developer community, learning new solutions to solve problems and learning about newer technology. He has spent years working on open source software and projects in topics related to User Automation, Constraint Solving and Language Development. Paul studied Computer Science at Carleton University.

Aaron has been developing application and systems software since the age of seven. His background focuses on retail and financial services product development. Aaron previously operated his own company, Hamilton Professional Services. Prior to that he was a software developer and progressed to senior software developer for various application development consulting firms such as Rangle, and various FinTech companies such as Planswell. He is known for both his technical expertise to easily move across programming languages and frameworks, and his communications skills. Outside of work, Aaron has learned to be conversant in Esperanto and Japanese languages.

Iván has been a full stack developer both leading and contributing to projects since 2007. He has worked for both small and large companies in the financial services, banking and gaming sectors. He has experience with a wide range of languages, web development projects, database migration projects and has worked with cutting edge technologies. Past companies he has worked for include IBM, Getronics, BBCA, La Caixa and international consulting firms. Iván has a Bachelor of Computer Science from Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain. In his spare time he’s a rock climber.

Oleg is a skilled Interactive and visual designer with experience building polished web and mobile applications. He has over a decade of experience working for organizations including Questrade, Actra, Rukuku, and in his own design consulting company. Oleg has honed his expertise in iOS development, user experience (UX), art direction, and has also spent time teaching others. He has a bachelor’s degree in Robotics from Moscow Power Engineering Institute.