Headquarters:
600-200 King Street West, Toronto, ON M5H 3T4
Year founded:
1992
Number of employees:
128
Phone:
(855) 213-MCAN (6226)
Email:
hello@mcanfinancial.com
Website:
mcanfinancial.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/mcan-financial-group
“Everything we do as an organization is to serve our agents in a meaningful way, which is to provide industry-leading insurance solutions when they need them the most”
Mark Maher, Jencap
MCAN Financial
Group
Karen Weaver
Chief Executive Officer and President
Floriana Cipollone
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President
Avish Buck
Senior Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer,
MCAN Financial Group
President, MCAN Home
Leadership
Karen Weaver has over 30 years of experience in real estate, financing and financial services, and corporate operations. Prior to joining MCAN, Weaver served as EVP and CFO of publicly listed corporations, including DH Corporation and First Capital REIT. She held previous positions as SVP and CFO at Brookfield Properties’ Canadian operations and Gentra.
Chief Executive Officer and President
Karen Weaver
Floriana Cipollone has over 30 years of progressive business experience, including 15 years as CFO of publicly listed entities and over 20 years spent in the real estate or real estate financing sector. Prior to joining MCAN, she most recently served as CFO of Plaza REIT.
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President
Floriana Cipollone
Avish Buck has over 15 years of business experience in the investment, financial services, and real estate financing sectors. He is responsible for MCAN’s residential mortgage business as well as information technology and marketing across the organization. Prior to joining MCAN, Buck served as VP of operations at First National Financial.
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, MCAN Financial Group
President, MCAN Home
Avish Buck
Carl Brown
Senior Vice President, Investments and Corporate Development
Carl Brown has over 30 years of experience in the real estate financing sector, holding various progressively senior positions at MCAN and MCAP. His experience extends to treasury and funding management, servicing, investor operations, and credit and risk management.
Senior Vice President, Investments and Corporate Development
Carl Brown
Brandon Wiener
Partner, Member of the Management Committee
Brandon Wiener’s practice focuses on personal, corporate and trust planning for high-net-worth individuals, professionals, executives, owner-managers and their businesses, both domestic and international, including corporate reorganizations, structuring of investments and businesses including professional incorporations, purchases and sales of businesses and real estate, estate planning, immigration and emigration, and non-profit organizations and charities including private foundations. He also advises investment funds and their managers and advisors in connection with structuring and other fund-related tax issues.
Prior to joining Thorsteinssons LLP in 2010, Wiener worked in the litigation and tax departments of the Montreal office of a large national law firm. He also worked as a law clerk for the Honourable Mr. Justice Michel Bastarache at the Supreme Court of Canada. Having a strong background in tax litigation, Wiener also assists and represents clients in their dealings with the taxation authorities in the context of an audit or assessment or voluntary disclosure.
Partner, Member of the Management Committee
Brandon Wiener
Investing in communities and homes for Canadians
MCAN Financial Group’s mission is to provide sustainable growth and returns to all its stakeholders through its relationship-driven lending and investing activities and quality work delivered through an expert team, with a focus on excellent client service. Since its beginning in 1992, the company’s goal has been to be the preferred mortgage lender and investor in its chosen markets in Canada.
Our foundational experience and knowledge of Canadian real estate means we build mortgage solutions that reflect the needs of real Canadians, solutions inspired by real life, and we deliver access to unique financing and investment opportunities through exclusive partnerships and initiatives built for impact. Our offerings include:
“Our team has successfully executed on an aggressive acquisition and integration plan over the last few years, which has contributed greatly to our strong market position”
John Jennings, Jencap
Kin Lee-Yow
Chief Information Officer
Catherine Sieniewicz
AVP of Travel and Retail
Rhonda English
Chief Marketing Officer
Evelyn Peng
Chief Risk Officer
Kin Lee-Yow’s combination of banking, payment, retail, e-commerce, and insurance technology experience has enabled him to contribute to the success and leadership positions in three large organizations in Canada, culminating in his current role as the CIO of CM Club Group. Kin is a graduate of Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Waterloo. He also holds a Kellogg-Schulich master’s degree in Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Chief Information Officer
Kin Lee-Yow
With decades of experience, Catherine Sieniewicz has always been devoted to growing within the travel and retail industry. Catherine became director of retail and travel at CCG in May 2019. In February 2020, she was promoted to AVP of travel and retail where she continues to guide all her decisions by what she has learned in member, associate, and business experience.
AVP of Travel and Retail
Catherine Sieniewicz
Rhonda English is a CPA, CMA and obtained her Honors Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and her MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario. Rhonda joined CM Club Group as vice president of insurance, then took the role of vice president corporate marketing, overseeing business insights & analytics and the acquisition and retention of the CM lines of business. In 2016, she was named chief marketing officer, taking on additional responsibility for travel and membership product, digital, and the government & community relations advocacy team.
Chief Marketing Officer
Rhonda English
Evelyn Peng started at CCG in 2017 as director of risk management and now serves as the chief risk officer for the organization. She has a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology and a Master’s in Accounting from the University of Waterloo. She has extensive experience with enterprise risk management, specializing in operational risk management, and financial risk management. Evelyn is a Chartered Accountant and a Financial Risk Manager.
Chief Risk Officer
Evelyn Peng
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Dave Longbottom
Chief Technology Officer
Alex Ventura
Head of Marketing
Damian Palovick
Senior Vice President of Underwriting
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Dr. Mary Lavoie
Head of Risk Management and Senior Vice President
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Mark Bernacki
Chief Underwriting Officer
Ryan Armijo
Chief Operating Officer, Underwriting Division
Bob Petrilli
President, Underwriting Division
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Melissa Abramowitz
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer
Melissa Abramowitz has been practicing corporate and commercial law for over 20 years, with an emphasis on the financial services industry. She joined CAA Club Group in 2014, and currently serves as the General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer of CCG and its affiliated companies. At CCG, Melissa provides strategic legal advice on a broad range of matters including corporate governance, licensing, distribution, marketing and advertising, commercial contracts and regulatory compliance. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.CL) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from McGill University and a Certificate in Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions from Osgoode.
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer
Melissa Abramowitz
Earlene Huntley joined CAA in 2014 as director, tax and was promoted to AVP, tax in 2016, and to her current role as group chief financial officer of CAA Club Group in February 2017. In her role, she is responsible for all aspects of finance. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies where she earned her BSc. Accounting (Hons) and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom.
Group Chief Financial Officer
Earlene Huntley
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homeownership through mortgages.
residential construction and commercial lending.
a portfolio of REIT investments expertly managed for long-term investment income and capital appreciation.
private investment funds that are focused on lending and developing in our communities.
our ownership interest in MCAP, privately owned and Canada’s largest mortgage financing company.
With people-first financing and investing solutions that help Canadians achieve homeownership and build wealth through real estate, we are reframing our investment in community and home.