Barbara Thompson-Walker has over 40 years of financial industry experience in the banking and corporate sectors, as well as 15 years of experience in the deposit broking business. Barbara has been a board member since 2015.

Ewa Lewinska is a Compliance Officer at a CIRO-regulated investment dealer. Prior to this, she worked as a Certified Deposit Specialist for over a decade in Vancouver, B.C. Ewa is life insurance licensed through the Insurance Council of British Columbia.

Ewa holds a Master’s Degree in Sinology and has completed several courses in Social Psychology. Ewa is fluent in Polish and Mandarin, and she is a volunteer Group Comissioner for Scouts Canada.

Michael is one of the longest serving employees of DUCA Financial Services Credit Union, having joined the DUCA team in 1985. Michael is a graduate of York University and a CPA, CGA. For the past 10 years, Michael has been heading the treasury group, where he is accountable for managing liquidity and structural risk within a rapidly growing balance sheet.
Michael also works on building alternative channels for both loans and deposits to help DUCA achieve growth targets and reach new potential Members. He is passionate about executing DUCA’s purpose of serving Members and, with his team, rallies around DUCA’s mission to help Members do more, be more, and achieve more.
The deposit broker network is an important funding channel for DUCA, and Michael is excited to collaborate with the other directors to help continue to advance the partnership between brokers and financial institutions.
Michael and his wife love travel and spending time with their children and grandchildren splashing in their backyard pool.

Frank began his financial services career in 1987, working with families and business owners to develop financial plans and implement them with life and health insurance and investment funds.
In 1993, Frank completed the CLU designation and was awarded the Leslie W. Dunstall medal.  Frank then enrolled in the MBA program at the Schulich School of Business while continuing to build his practice.  He graduated with distinction in 1997 and later joined Sun Life’s Canadian individual insurance division where he directed marketing efforts across both managed and external distribution channels, and was a member of the leadership team for the Clarica integration.
By late 2004, Frank assumed the general management role at Page and Associates Ltd.  He now focuses on supporting the firm’s advisors with their affluent and business-owner clients to deliver advanced financial planning, tax and estate planning advice, and portfolio management services.

Brian Evans, Chair of the Board of Directors for the RDBA.
Brian’s association with the RDBA began almost 25 years ago and he has been connected to the management of the organization for most of those years. Developing a strong Canadian deposit industry in this changing environment for current and future brokers and agents continues to drive his involvement in the association.
Brian is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), and manages a financial services business started by his father, W. Laurence Evans in 1965. Deposit products maintain a vital place in the services offered through the financial planning process at Brian J. Evans Financial Services.
Brian and his wife Luanne have six children, all of whom are now married. Family holds a special priority for the couple and should you talk to them, you might have to endure stories of their children and their many grandchildren! Brian is involved in various volunteer opportunities throughout his hometown including his church. Throughout his life, music has held an important place for Brian. As part of the male gospel music group called Reflections Trio, he continues to present music programs at churches, events and senior’s residences throughout the GTA.

Brandon’s extensive financial services experience, coupled with his post-graduate studies in Marketing and Finance make him a valuable addition to the RDBA Board of Directors.
After graduating with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Schulich School of Business, Brandon gained valuable experience working with one of Canada’s largest consulting firms before moving into the financial services industry.   Now with over 15 years of financial services experience, Brandon brings valuable insight into the challenges facing deposit brokers, and their clients.

Richard has over 30-years’ experience in the manufacturing and distribution of Financial Services products. An astute leader and planner he believes, the key to successful distribution is to ensure that your distribution chain is effective and that you are providing valuable products and services to your distributors and end users.
His expertise has been formed through a unique combination of personal, professional and leadership experience. He has focused his career on building profitable distribution networks for Independent brokers. After selling his own insurance and wealth practice he held senior leadership roles at SunLife Financial and AXA Financial. He has also been instrumental in acquiring many Investment Dealer’s and MGA’s.
Richard joined EXOS Wealth Systems in July 2012 as Managing Partner and is currently the largest individual shareholder and Chief Executive Officer of EXOS Wealth Systems Inc. and the Monarch Wealth group of companies. Richard uses his experience as a sales agent, sales manager and executive to help empower Advisors and Brokers to grow their business by engaging technology and providing solutions, products and services that consumers need.

Martone, COO/ CTO is a PEng, MBA and has 30 years of experience in engineering, operations and international business. Don has a successful track record of complex business start-ups in an institutional framework and oversight with focus on compliance, processes and controls.

Inderjit Lal is a financial services professional with experience across deposit operations, accounting, and treasury. Since joining Haventree Bank in 2018, he has been instrumental in shaping the Deposit Operations function and improving the way deposits are processed, helping the team work more efficiently and deliver a better experience to clients.

Inderjit is known for taking a practical, data informed approach to solving problems and for introducing improvements that simplify work for both clients and internal teams. As a leader, he focuses on efficiency, puts stakeholder at the centre of decisions, and enjoys empowering his team to grow and do their best work.