Meet the team

Penny is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Penny completed her Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Wilfrid Laurier University (major in Accounting) and has completed Part I & II of the CICA In-Depth Tax Course.

Prior to joining RBC in 2015, Penny was a tax manager at one of the world’s leading accounting firms. She specialized in providing tax compliance and tax planning services to high net worth individuals and private businesses. She was also a member of the firm’s learning committee and trained colleagues on personal and corporate tax matters.

Penny’s role is to work with and support your advisor in preparing and presenting comprehensive Compass Financial Plans.

Ilana received her Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 2004 and Bachelor of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2007. She was called to the Ontario bar in 2008.

Prior to joining RBC, Ilana practiced in the areas of estate, incapacity and commercial litigation at a major national law firm.

Ilana joined RBC Wealth Management in November 2010 and worked for seven years as part the Wealth Management team, providing tax, estate and financial planning information to RBC advisors for their clients.

Ilana is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.

You’re the biggest beneficiary.

Colin Ardill stays humble. Even so, he’s not shy about being a man on a mission: to overturn 150 years of misunderstanding about life insurance, one day at a time.

Most Canadians see only one dimension to life insurance: that it’s of no use to the living. But Colin sees it in three dimensions. There is the death benefit that everyone can see – but life insurance also provides tax-exempt growth, and it allows the holder to spend more money in retirement than they otherwise could. Says Colin: “The person buying the policy is going to be the biggest beneficiary.”

Colin has been in the estate planning business for over 15 years. His core purpose – the heart of everything he does – is to leave everyone he meets better off.