Our Network Team

 In this once-in-a-century economic reset, global financial services firms are re-imagining themselves. Disruptive technologies, ever-increasing consumer expectations and changing regulations are reshaping the industry. It’s too much to navigate alone.

What industry leaders don’t need is large consulting firms selling expensive projects, vendors pushing complex solutions or coaches offering soft skill development. Today’s leaders need a team of expert advisors delivering unbiased custom support grounded in decades of experience. Leaders need wisdom advisors.

 Valemount Network’s Wisdom Advisor Decapod is a team of ten seasoned experts with a combined 300+ years of experience in finance, risk, and compliance. We provide on-demand, unbiased advice to help you navigate complexity and make confident decisions. One contact, with access to the wisdom of ten.

• No sales agenda— to sell more FTE; just actionable trusted advisor insightsfrom your personal wisdom advisor 
• Better-than-managing-partner-level expertise without buying millions in consulting work
• Direct access to advisors who have been in your shoes

• Strategic Pulse Reviews: Quick sanity checks on your plans—3–5 bets, 90-day milestones
• Quarterly Check-Ins: Outcome-driven reviews with dashboards and crisp decision options
• Stress-Test Advisory: Scenario design, resilience planning, and governance readiness
• On-Demand Expertise: “Phone-a-friend” for deep dives into urgent issues
• Alignment Tools: Goals vs. skills diagnostics, stakeholder alignment, and leadership tweaks

• One point of contact, but access to the wisdom of ten
• One retainer contract, one NDA, one invoice
• You choose where and when to deploy Wisdom Advisors
• You own all wisdom guidance and outputs

• Senior executives in new roles
• Seasoned executives who just want to stay on top of their game
• Boards seeking technical expertise.
• Project teams needing super-SME support
• Organizations building leadership capability

Bringing cyber, financial crime, data, and enterprise risk leadership to help boards and executives navigate complex regulatory and strategic transformation.

• Former CRO and Big Four Risk Partner across insurance, banking, and wealth
• Specialist in cyber, operational resilience financial crime, and data governance
• Drives strategic enterprise risk and compliance culture and transformation

Reimagining board effectiveness by challenging governance orthodoxy.

• Podcaster & Board Effectiveness Advisor to public and private boards and family offices
• Executive in Residence – Rotman School of Management
• Former Director – Governance Innovation Centre

Activating and transforming finance, risk and compliance through technology-driven innovation.

• CFO, CRO & Chief Compliance Officer – Blockchain Payments with successful exit
• Founder of Risk & Compliance Advisory
• Former Senior Partner PwC | Capco in large-scale regulatory & financial management

Bringing CEO and Family Office finance and general management expertise and insights across the public and private finance space.

• Fractional CEO and Non-executive director
• Chair of Board of National Gallery of Canada
• Senior advisor to family office and capital raise and fund management companies

 Building enterprise resilience and regulatory trust through strategic risk leadership. 

• Fractional Chief Risk Officer & Enterprise Risk Senior Executive
• Regulatory Assurance & Operational Resilience Senior Executive
• Credit & Investment Risk Foundations

Championing financial crime and human trafficking prevention and governance with a global impact.

• Board Leadership & Governance
• Anti-Financial Crime & AML Proven Senior Executive
• Global Advocacy Against Human Trafficking

Delivering quantitative risk intelligence and governance solutions for complex financial ecosystems,

• CEO – iModXInternational Model Exchange
• Former Partner – KPMG Quantitative Risk Advisory
• Academic & Governance Leadership 

Driving global risk innovation and fintech transformation with entrepreneurial vision.

• Serial entrepreneur and Senior Advisor – AI Fintech, PropTech Scale-Ups 
• Fraud, policy, consortia and AML KYC and Transaction Monitoring Transformation 
• Former GRC managing partner risk & regulatory transformation

 Integrating global finance and tax expertise with sustainability strategy to shape resilient organizations .

• Global Finance & Tax Senior Executive Leadership at TD, SunLife & PwC
• Sustainable Finance & Climate Governance, Senior Fellow at CD Howe Institute
• Professor Goodman School of Business

Leading large-scale banking transformations with digital innovation and regulatory precision.

• Principal – Zerafa Financial Services Group 
• Former Senior Partner OW, KPMG & Capco
• Proven Open Banking, GenAI and Enterprise Architect across Banking, Wealth & Capital Markets