ILAN ZOR “I get my energy from sitting in front of a person and, at the end, they say, ‘Oh, I get it now.’ That aha moment is what I wake up for every morning.” Ilan grew up a beach kid. He spent most of his high-school days on the sand in Tel Aviv, surfboard under his arm, and by his own cheerful admission, he was not much of a student. “I paid for that quite a bit,” he laughs. But underneath the sun and the surf ran a current he couldn't shake, a low, persistent worry about money. Will I...

SCOTT STARRATT My approach to portfolio management is deliberately unglamorous. The goal is to participate in market growth while helping reduce the volatility clients experience along the way. My lessons in finance began early in life, says Scott Starratt, Senior Portfolio Manager with Starratt Wealth Management of Canaccord Genuity. “When I was a boy, my dad would come home from his job at the bank and I’d always want to know, ‘Who did you talk to today?’” It was an early lesson on the...

MEGAN DEEKS "Theatre threw me into the deep end of every human emotion. That's exactly what lets me hold a client's hand through the biggest financial decisions of their life." There was no telling how Megan’s career in theatre would inform her ways in helping people manage their money. At Queen's University, where Megan earned an Honours BA, she spent her nights the way the most committed drama students do, in her room running lines. After her degree, she and five of her closest friends...