Meet Our Team

Mark leads the North American-based Equities team that provides independent and objective guidance on individual stocks to BMO Private Wealth Investment Advisors, Portfolio Managers, and their teams across Canada and the U.S. Mark and the team are tasked with helping these professionals build scalable equity models that can be used across their practice, and ensuring that they and their clients are well supported with day-to-day counsel  and thought leadership on relevant stocks, sectors, investment themes, and broad macro topics. Mark and the team collaborate closely with other internal investment strategy teams in BMO Private Wealth and partners across BMO Capital Markets and BMO Global Asset Management to bring the best of BMO to professionals and their clients.

Before joining BMO, Mark spent 25 years with RBC Dominion Securities where he assumed leadership positions across various investment management roles. This included coverage of U.S. equities, building out and supporting the firm's suite of guided portfolios, engineering a practice management and multi-asset class offering, and overseeing a team of individuals responsible for asset allocation, equity and fixed income security coverage, portfolio construction, practice management, and investment analytics.

Mark is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University.

Richard has been involved with Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivative markets for over 21 years, including seven years in direct sales and trading. Early in his career, Richard worked as an interest rate Futures and Options institutional representative for BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and an international bank advising national and international clients. This was followed by a three-year period as a provincial and municipal trader for the Private Client Division of BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.

In 2001, Richard participated in the launch of the newly created Portfolio Services Group within the Private Client Division to provide a low-cost alternative for management of fixed income portfolios for high net worth individuals and institutional clients. Richard has been actively managing fixed income portfolios for more than 10 years. He is a CFA Charterholder and a registered portfolio manager.

Since 2011, Richard is the Fixed Income Strategist for the Private Client Division of BMO Nesbitt Burns and is a member of the Investment Strategy Committee.

Bernice leads a collaborative team of professionals and works closely with advisors across BMO to support high and ultra-high net worth clients in achieving their goals. With extensive knowledge in advanced tax, business succession and estate planning, including cross border estate planning, Bernice develops customized wealth and tax planning solutions to meet the unique and complex needs of affluent individuals and families.

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.

An avid cyclist and skier, Sarah brings that same discipline and commitment to a variety of community and personal causes. Having biked across Canada twice for Kids Cancer, it is evident she is dedicated and determined at whatever she puts her mind to.

Kimiko is part of the Business Advisory & Succession Planning team, which provides high net worth business owners in transition with a sophisticated, forward-thinking wealth management plan. She works with individuals and business owners in the areas of business succession, transition, sale, mergers & acquisitions, and valuations for the purposes of wealth planning and transfer. Kimiko is an experienced business advisor who brings more than 10 years of technical and business planning expertise to BMO Wealth Management.

Kimiko joined BMO Wealth Management in 2018 after more than a decade as a mid-market M&A advisor at a Big 4 professional services firm. With a focus on sell-side advisory services for private Alberta-based companies, Kimiko has worked with companies in a range of industries including oil and gas services, manufacturing, distribution and construction. Kimiko has advised on complex transactions including sales to financial and strategic buyers, management buyouts, and shareholder disputes.