I have been building a track record of providing successful investment leadership to high net worth investors since 1994. My career began at Midland Walwyn where I worked as a broker and became number one in my training class. The firm was sold to Merrill Lynch Canada in 1998 and I became a Financial Consultant and Sales Manager for seven branches in the Ontario Region, managing over 100 Financial Consultants throughout Ontario. Merrill Lynch Canada was sold to CIBC Wood Gundy, where I was proud to be ranked the number one advisor in York Region and one of the top 40 advisors in Canada. In 2008, I was invited to join the predecessor firm to Macquarie Private Wealth as Senior Vice President, Investment Advisor. There, I formed The Zakka Team* to offer my select group of affluent clients my disciplined, conservative investment approach with a higher level of independence, service excellence, research resources, and technological sophistication.