Rob is responsible for Retail Financial Services portfolios, retail network and distribution channels to our clients. He and his team ensure that ATB Financial is there for Albertans to help them reach their goals with financial solutions tailored to their needs. He also serves as a senior spokesperson in the province and contributor to the overall strategic vision of ATB Financial.

Prior to joining ATB, Rob gained 20 years of banking experience across multiple markets in Ontario and the Prairie Provinces. Most recently, Rob was a Regional Vice President and Regional Sales Manager with RBC and was previously the Vice President - Manitoba and Saskatchewan for CIBC Retail Markets.

Rob is a member of the Retail Banking Executive Circle, an organization which includes the retail leads of most of North America's largest financial institutions, and the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors. He has also served on the Board of Directors for various community organizations and is a former Division Chair of the Winnipeg United Way campaign cabinet.

A native of Burlington, Ontario, Rob spent much of his youth in St. Albert, Alberta. He later returned to Ontario where he earned an undergraduate BA majoring in Law at Carleton University in Ottawa.

Rob is a former national rowing champion and still enjoys being on the water. Hiking, hockey, volunteering and spending time with family are among his favourite activities.

Samson leads all aspects of the Credit Card and Card Payment Processing businesses at ATB. This covers all components including product development and distribution strategies, service, credit, operations, co-brand management and strategy analytics.

Samson is passionate about community involvement and has acted as Director for the Wood's Homes Foundation, which provides programs and services for troubled children, youth and their families. He also contributes his time to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, as well as the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

As Vice President of Retail Financial Services (RFS) – Sales and Operations, Karen Comeau provides guidance and oversees services to improve policy and procedures for sales, credit risk and operational support to the lines of business. Her team works closely with all imbedded partners and oversees the business planning process for RFS.

Karen started her career with ATB almost 25 years ago. She has held numerous positions in both branch and corporate during this time—including 10 years in Business Credit as a credit adjudicator. She also helped organize and host the first ATB Women’s Conference and is an active participant in ATB mentorship programs.

In her spare time she enjoys bike trips through the mountains and travelling.

Steve leads a dynamic group of leaders and associates that serve ATB customers where they want, when they want, and how they want. Whether by phone, email, or meeting customers at their place of business or home, his team works hard to earn the love and respect of Albertans. Moving forward, Steve's goal is take the Contact Centre and Mobile Personal Banking team into the future with a seamless customer experience that takes full advantage of new technologies, channels, and customer offers.

Steve knows Financial Services, accumulating over 20 years of Executive & Leadership experience in Retail, Independent Business, Wealth Management, and Financial Planning across Western Canada. Most recently at ATB, he served as Regional Vice-President for the Branch network in the Calgary Region. Steve has also achieved his MBA and Bachelor of Commerce Degrees, specializing in Marketing and in Finance.

Steve invests in the community through various organizations, currently serving on the board of directors for Red Cross in Southern Alberta. He also volunteers as a member of the Calgary Search and Rescue Ground Search team and the Red Cross Disaster Management team. Steve balances out his work and community life with a love of outdoor activities and world travel.

Sue's chief responsibility is the development and implementation of a leadership strategy for ATB Retail Financial Services including a long term strategy to enhance key leadership roles within the branch network at ATB. Her work will impact all areas of talent management within ATB including identifying, shaping, and retaining key skills that will help create and maintain world class leaders. Her goal is to develop a truly unique banking experience at ATB through great leadership development.

Sue comes to ATB after ten years with Best Buy Canada, where she served in several senior leadership roles including Vice-President HR, Leadership & Communications for Future Shop, as well as Vice President Corporate HR and Communications for Best Buy Canada. A native of Zimbabwe, Sue grew up in six different countries – mostly in Africa – before finally migrating to Vancouver, Canada. She has a diploma in Human Resources Management and a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University in Victoria.

Sue currently sits on the board for Lester B. Pearson College in Victoria. In her spare time, Sue enjoys home renovations, travelling, golf, and horseback riding.

Kim Irving oversees 34 branches and 10 agencies, leading a team of associates to success in the Edmonton and surrounding areas. He oversees all the facets of the branch operations including human resources, sales, and long and short-term goal setting. As one of five regional vice presidents for Retail Financial Services, Kim and his team are responsible for delivering an exceptional client experience, providing world-class solutions for clients, day-to-day operations, while maintaining a positive working environment for associates.

Kim's experience in the banking industry spans 20 years. His experience includes estate and trust administration, portfolio management, retail and independent business branch and regional leadership.

Kim strongly believes in the value of safe and healthy communities, and this passion has led him to serve as an executive board member of Crime Stoppers. He also stays physically active and involved in his community through coaching hockey, baseball and other sports.

Chuck oversees the north region, consisting of 40 branches and 36 agencies, extending from Elk Point to High Level and Jasper to Cold Lake. His team is responsible for providing sales and service excellence to our expanding marketplace through an engaged team of associates.

As one of the five regional vice presidents in Retail Financial Services, Chuck and his team are responsible for delivering an exceptional client experience, providing world-class solutions for clients, managing day-to-day operations and maintaining a positive working environment for associates.

Chuck is a firm believer in the benefits of community involvement and participates in amateur sports associations.

Rob oversees 26 branches and 33 agencies spanning the entire southern part of Alberta. As one of five regional vice presidents for Retail Financial Services, Rob and his team are responsible for delivering an exceptional client experience, providing world-class solutions for our clients and the day-to-day operations, while creating a positive working environment for our branch associates.

Rob has been in the financial services industry for 22 years. He is an active member of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners and an instructor at the Terry Royer Institute for Business Training and Development.

Rob is also the author of As Long as I'm Sitting Here (2007), a light-hearted look at motivational seminars.

John is responsible for sales and service delivery in 37 branches and 51 agencies. He oversees all the aspects of the branches and agencies including human resources, sales and goal setting.

John joined ATB Financial in 2000 as the District General Manager, Central Region. In this role, he saw consistent high performance and strong employee engagement results within his districts. In November 2006, he became the Director of Operational and Strategic Initiatives, overseeing many successful initiatives, including the development of ATB's strategy for managing new branch builds.

John serves as Director of the Sutter Fund charity, which is a non-profit organization that raises funds for worthwhile projects in Central Alberta. One of their main events is the Sutter Fund Charity Golf Classic. John has volunteered for the Red Deer Centrefest and Canadian Parents for French. He enjoys curling and golfing.

Ian is responsible for the Corporate Financial Services portfolios. He and his team are charged with ensuring ATB Financial has a strong market share that reflects the needs of Albertans.

Ian brings to ATB 25 years of banking experience from RBC Capital Markets, where he was Vice President, Investment Banking. His tenure of 16 years at Royal Bank Financial Group included the role of Vice President - Corporate Banking, Calgary, and senior account management roles in Oil & Gas Banking. Prior to his immigration to Canada, he worked for National Westminster Bank Ltd., International Division in London, U.K., where he held positions in international credit, corporate finance and trade finance.

As a volunteer, Ian is heavily involved with his children's school. He is also a member of the Chairman's Circle of SAIT, an advisory group that provides direction on the institution's overall educational plan and goals.

Ian is a Member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of the United Kingdom.

Mario is responsible for three crucial drivers for the future success of ATB Corporate Financial Services and its vision of enabling businesses to succeed and helping Alberta become a global centre of finance. Leadership accountability for the Core banking project as it pertains to the CFS line of business, cash management and, strategic initiatives/new line of business and new products.

Previously Mario was responsible for the Solutions team in ATB Investor Services and before that lead the Commercial team within CFS with leadership responsibility for diversified and real estate lending throughout Alberta.

Before joining ATB Financial in 2004, Mario spent six years with RBC, between Calgary, Toronto, and Windsor. He has more than 15 years of banking experience with some of Canada's major financial institutions. Mario achieved his Bachelor of Commerce degree and MBA at the University of Windsor in Ontario and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mario is actively involved with Habitat for Humanity in Calgary.

Bruce is responsible for helping to build ATB Financial's Energy business and capabilities. His team consists of industry specialists in all aspects of the energy industry, including: drilling and service, pipelines, utilities, midstream, exploration and production.

Before joining ATB, Bruce was a senior Royal banker and has more than 39 years of experience with a focus on the oil and gas industry.

Bruce is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers, has attained the ICD.D designation, and is a very active participant in community and church activities. He also serves as a Director for the Calgary Counselling Centre and sits on SAIT's Board Advisory Council. He has also been a speaker at numerous oil and gas industry seminars on finance.

Tim is responsible for the strategy, direction and leadership of the division in our southern region including the centres of Calgary and Lethbridge. This group provides expert services (direct and syndicated) to mid- and senior-market businesses in Real Estate, Diversified and Food & Forestry sectors operating throughout the province.

Tim is an experienced banker with more than 20 years dedicated to the financial services industry to date. Prior to his current role, Tim was Director in the division’s Commercial Group where he was responsible for building and nurturing a strong relationship portfolio, primarily focused on the transportation, telecommunication, technology and manufacturing sectors. He has been with ATB Financial for over 5 years, and also has significant banking experience with both another major Canadian financial institution as well as a Denmark-based institution where he specialized in all areas of lending with specific emphasis on technology.

Outside of work, Tim is active in the city of Calgary, both from a business and industry perspective, as well as from a community perspective. Tim has past and current board involvement with the ASTech Foundation, the Calgary Soccer Foundation and the Calgary Minor Soccer Association. Tim is based in Calgary and holds a CFA designation.

Sheldon Dyck leads the Investor Services business at ATB Financial, which is made up of four subsidiary companies: ATB Investment Management, ATB Investment Services, ATB Securities, and ATB Insurance Advisors Inc. This includes leading teams of advisors, portfolio managers, compliance and operations staff, and Investor Services senior executives. Sheldon is also the Chief Investment Officer for ATB Investment Management's Compass Portfolio Series of Mutual Funds.

Before moving to Investor Services, Sheldon led the Business and Retail Banking Sales teams at ATB Financial for four years and was responsible for asset and liability portfolios of $3-$5 billion. Prior to joining ATB in 1998, Sheldon worked with CIBC in specialized finance. Sheldon is also an experienced entrepreneur, having owned and managed a number of business and investment ventures.

Currently, Sheldon is a member of the Chairman's Circle of SAIT, the mandate of which is to provide advice regarding SAIT's overall educational directions and goals, and recommendations for expanding and strengthening external partnerships. Sheldon is also a member of Mensa Canada.

Previously, Sheldon served a three-year term on the Board of Governors for CGA Alberta and enjoyed teaching Sales Management at the University of Alberta for a number of years.

Sheldon is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and he balances his pursuit of life-long learning with a passion for golf, hockey and scuba diving.

Ursula joined ATB Investor Services as the Managing Director, Finance, in December 2008, bringing 13 years of brokerage industry experience to ATB. She subsequently moved into the VP, Finance role in August 2009, assuming the additional responsibility of overseeing the Investment Operations Group (IOG).

In her current role as Chief Financial Officer, Ursula is responsible for driving operational efficiencies and regulatory excellence through a strategic view to budgeting; financial and regulatory reporting; as well as management reporting for all three Investor Services subsidiaries.

Ursula holds an Honors Degree in Public Administration from Carleton University and a CGA accounting designation, obtained via the Alberta Chapter of CGA Canada.

As a mother of two young girls, Ursula is a strong believer in maintaining a healthy balance between work and personal life. ATB has provided Ursula with the opportunity to commit more time to her children and to be a better role model in their lives. She is also an avid fitness and sports enthusiast.

Miles Kotylak has been working in the financial industry for 21 years. The last 9 years have been with ATB Financial. He started as one of the company's original Investment Advisors and was an integral part in developing and launching ATB Investor Services from day one

Currently Miles is responsible for leading the advisory team at ATB Investor Services. His direct leadership to the Regional Managers throughout the province helps focus on building the best team of Advisors to serve Albertans by maintaining industry leading customer service, and creating an engaged team of employees that are among the top in Canada.

In addition to helping launch one of ATB Financial's most successful line of business, Miles also credits a trip to Rwanda, Africa as a major life accomplishment. There he helped build a church and schools, which he believed helped build his character and personal philosophy toward leadership.

In his spare time, Miles is an active family man with a wife and two young boys. The family spends a lot of time outside in the summer and lead various group studies within their community.

Brian oversees several key areas within Investor Services that center on us producing more revenue while consuming fewer resources. Working closely with our internal partners, Brian is focused on discovering opportunities to link existing and potential ATB customers who have wealth management needs with Investor Services advisors. Brian also leads the team of ATB Insurance Advisors who offer life insurance, disability, critical illness, estate, farm, and business succession planning to ATB customers and beyond.

In terms of consuming less, Brian leads our efficiency initiative that is focused on developing and implementing processes and tools that allow our advisors to work in the most efficient manner possible. This includes refining work procedures to save time spent on administration, as well as using technology in ways that allow us to reduce costs such as travel and office expenses.

Prior to joining ATB, Brian worked as a private consultant, offering sales training and consulting to many great companies including ATB. Brian is also the author of Rocket-Man: The Resurrection!, which is a fictional book written to help sales people become brilliant at the basics.

Michael Frederick brings over 16 years of experience in the investment industry to his role of Senior VP & Chief Operating Officer for ATB Investor Services. Mike drives the maximization of operating performance for Investor Services. His areas of accountability include: strategic planning, financial metrics reporting, regulatory compliance, investment operations and IT projects and infrastructure.

While in the Certified Management Accounting program he earned the CMA Scholarship in Accounting for his academic achievement and community involvement. He obtained both his Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designations.

Maureen leads the business partner and recruiting teams for ATB. In addition to her leadership role, she is ATB's Chief Negotiator and is responsible for Retail Financial Services' human resources strategy as a member of that line of business's leadership team.

Peggy leads a team responsible for external communications and positioning of ATB across the province, internal communications with associates, media relations, stakeholder relations with our government shareholder, and the growing area of corporate responsibility.

Before joining ATB, Peggy ran her own consulting firm, where she was responsible for a number of award-winning communication programs.

Peggy is a founding member of the Board for the St. Albert Community Foundation and a past member of the St. Albert Rotary Club. Peggy is also a supporter of the Capital Region River Valley Alliance.

With over 20 years banking experience, John brings a wealth of knowledge to ATB Financial. His varied career began in sales, then marketing, and then into several key projects within ATB.

John is currently the vice-president of ATB Financial's Community and Government Relations group. He is responsible for a team of dedicated individuals who support, run and promote ATB Financial in the communities across Alberta. John's team is responsible for ATB lead community initiatives, sponsorships, events, and promotions.

John is an active volunteer, driven to support his community in many endeavours. Currently sitting as the Chair of the Northlands Board of Directors, John has been the director responsible for both Capital Ex and the Canadian Finals Rodeo. He has previously chaired the 65 Roses Sports Committee (Cystic Fibrosis Research), the TELUS Edmonton Open (9 years) and he currently sits as the Commissioner of the Canadian Finals Rodeo.

John has a wife and daughter and resides in Edmonton. He has a passion for his family, sports, his company, and his community.

Nolan is a 20-year veteran of marketing and marketing communications. He has led marketing strategy within companies including DuPont, has consulted to companies on marketing strategy and ran two successful North American advertising agencies. He loves and lives brand experiences.

Nolan and his team are responsible for the ATB Financial customer experience and works closely with the lines of business and other brand stakeholders to deliver a consistently superior ATB experience. On top of this, Nolan and his team lead the creative aspects of the brand experience including advertising and promotion.

In his spare time he enjoys experiencing the wonderful amenities of Alberta with his wife and two daughters.

As Chief Financial Officer, Jim is responsible for leading a group of internal service providers and providing overall financial management processes for the organization. These include finance, treasury, facilities and real estate, legal services, and central administration. Jim also serves as a director of four ATB subsidiaries: ATB Investment Services Inc., ATB Investment Management Inc., ATB Securities Inc., and ATB Insurance Advisors Inc.

Prior to joining ATB Financial, Jim served as VP of Finance and CFO for Lilydale Foods. He also spent two years in Prague, Czech Republic, as Controller for a wireless phone company, as well as nine years with both the Telus Corporation and Echo Bay Mines in various capacities.

Jim graduated from the University of Alberta with a degree in Business Administration and Commerce. He is also a chartered accountant.

Stuart McKellar is proud to lead the Facilities, Real Estate and Supply Chain, and the Legal Services departments. These creative, service-oriented teams focus on finding and delivering the best possible solutions for their internal partners. Stuart also provides corporate secretary support to the ATB Board of Directors and to the Investor Services subsidiaries of ATB.

Stuart joined ATB in 1997 after seven years in private practice with a respected local law firm. He is recognized for his work on the highly complex Asset Backed Commercial Paper restructuring file, which had an international impact.

Stuart earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary and his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta. Stuart is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, holding the ICD.D designation. A native Albertan, he balances his pursuit for life-long learning with spending time with family and friends.

Michelle breathes life into the people strategic initiatives and processes that impact the organization, with a focus on the 200-people CFO Portfolio team. Michelle’s passion for people and enabling their success, along with her 20 years of broad management experience bridging a number of different industries, uniquely positions Michelle to help make ATB the place to work. Prior to joining ATB in 2004, Michelle held senior finance positions at Lilydale and KPMG in Edmonton, and the JD Irving group in Frederick, New Brunswick.

Michelle earned her bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Alberta and went on to complete her CA designation with KPMG Edmonton in 1996.

Michelle, her husband Rodger, and daughter currently call Sherwood Park home. Outside of work, Michelle enjoys traveling, reading and spending time at the cabin with family and friends.

Lukasz’s love of travel makes him a perfect fit for leading all global financial market functions at ATB Financial. His responsibilities include staying abreast of trends within the money markets, foreign exchange, investment management, and global financial products.

He and his team of financial markets professionals are responsible for managing the foreign exchange position, bidding on large money market term deposits, as well as managing investment portfolios. They are also responsible for risk management solutions and trading in the areas of derivatives, as well as institutional foreign exchange and institutional money markets.

Lukasz holds an MBA in Financial Management with Presidential Honours. He also holds equivalent degrees of Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Arts (Economics).

Doug leads the Finance-Service team who provides strategic financial advice, business modeling expertise and business process optimization services. Doug also oversees the embedded finance functions to the lines of business who are responsible for reporting and analysis and financial management controls for the lines of business.

Prior to joining ATB in 2003, Doug served as interim Director of Finance for Lilydale Foods. He also spent time in Bermuda, acting as Chief Financial Officer of a U.S. SEC-registered investment firm and as an Audit Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers where he led the audits of Canadian and offshore mutual funds, international pension funds and investment operations of multinational companies and reinsurance companies. Doug moved offshore after articling with KPMG in Edmonton.

Doug earned Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degrees at the University of Alberta and is both a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst. In his spare time, Doug enjoys reading, camping and travelling with his wife Shelly and is an avid hockey and football fan.

As Treasurer, Vic is responsible for optimizing asset and liability management, improving capital planning and enhancing funding and investments. In other words, Vic and his team play a pivotal role for ATB: they look after the money.

Vic's career encompasses over 25 years of experience in the financial industry. In his 14 years of senior financial institution experience, Vic has been a driving force in finance and risk policy-making, corporate planning, and risk management for some of the biggest banks in the United States. He joined ATB in 2011 from Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, where he most recently served as the Senior Risk Officer-Commercial Banking.

In his spare time Vic enjoys an active lifestyle on the ski hills with his wife and teenage kids, and exploring the sights and culture of their new home.

Colleen heads up the Finance Operations team responsible for corporate and management accounting functions and the enterprise financial performance activities, which encompasses short-range planning, leadership of the enterprise financial management framework and providing financial reporting and financial business information. In addition, Colleen oversees the embedded financial support to the strategic service units.

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Colleen moved to Alberta with her young family over 20 years ago and is passionate about her community and helping others, which contributed to her 18-year tenure with Capital Health prior to joining ATB in 2009. She was actively involved in minor hockey, lacrosse and dance when her children were young and currently sits on YWCA board. When Colleen isn't busy with her family or community efforts, she likes to travel and discover exotic new locales with her husband.

Bob and his team are responsible for all aspects of risk management across the organization, including assessment of portfolio risk, decision support and loan adjudication, operational risk, compliance and privacy. These include all policy issues as they relate to risk, loan collection and recovery activities, and compliance. Bob also oversees ATB's Internal Audit team.

Bob joined ATB Financial in 1975 and has held numerous branch management and corporate office positions since then. He most recently held the position of Executive Vice President, Credit, from 1997 to 2008.

Bob holds an Associate Diploma from Medicine Hat College's Bachelor of Commerce Program. He has also completed numerous banking-related courses, including courses from ATB's Agricultural Lending Program and the Canadian Institute of Bankers Professional Banking Program.

Dwayne leads a team responsible for all credit and risk approval functions at ATB Financial, including decision support and loan adjudication, all policy issues as they relate to credit risk, the maintenance of ATB's risk rating and scoring systems, as well as all loan collection and recovery activities. His team also pursues new opportunities to build on its expertise and expand business in small business and agriculture, investment capital for selected commodity-based sectors, and real estate lending.

Dwayne was born and raised in Ontario but is enthusiastic about being based in Calgary, a city he fell in love with before he came to ATB Financial. After achieving his MBA from University of Western Ontario, Dwayne wanted to combine his interest in finance with the ability to interact with people. Banking was the perfect fit.

Recently Dwayne completed several industry-specific courses to enhance his knowledge of derivatives, portfolio theory and asset/liability management.

Omar Rehman is a chartered accountant (CA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and has 13 years of experience in audit including stays at Barclays Captial in the U.K. and Royal Dutch Shell in Calgary.

As Chief Internal Auditor, Omar Rehman is responsible for evaluating and improving the effectiveness of the organization's risk management, control and governance processes.

In his spare time he likes to spend quality time with his family, kickboxing and travel.

Andy and his team support the profitable growth and risk-managed credit philosophy of ATB Financial through the timely and appropriate adjudication of all corporate, business and agricultural applications for credit in excess of $250,000.

The Business and Corporate Credit team consists of 30 staff in Edmonton and Calgary who possess extensive experience in agriculture, small business, oil and gas, real estate, hospitality, manufacturing, and many other sectors and businesses in Alberta. All are dedicated to meeting the unique needs of Albertans while ensuring ATB Financial's reputation as a disciplined, ethical and self-sufficient financial institution is maintained

Andy was born in Cold Lake, Alberta and joined ATB Financial over 30 years ago in St. Paul, Alberta. He has extensive experience in small business, real estate and hospitality, and corporate lending as a result of his previous tenures as General Manager of Corporate Credit and a senior relationship manager with Corporate Financial Services. Andy also brings with him a strong sense of the culture and history of ATB Financial and Alberta.

Jay Hamblin is responsible for Asset Management, a group that provides professional management of ATB's high risk and impaired loans portfolio with emphasis on maximizing recoveries and ultimately enhancing ATB's profitability.

Jay joined ATB Financial in 1980, after establishing himself in the banking industry with the Bank of Montreal. He has held various leadership positions during his 28 years with ATB, including: Vice President Commercial Banking, Regional Vice President Edmonton South Region, and Branch Manager in several branches. Prior to ATB Financial, Jay spent seven years with Bank of Montreal.

Jay has his FICB designation (Fellows of the Institute of Canadian Bankers).

Neelam leads the Compliance department consisting of Anti Money Laundering, Privacy and Regulatory Compliance.

Compliance works with the different lines of business to provide our customers with sound and safe practices and a positive customer experience.

Neelam joined ATB in 2009, and has over 15 years of experience in legal and compliance positions in the financial services industry.

Neelam earned her undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Alberta and her Master's Degree in Law (Alternative Dispute Resolution) from York University.

Curtis is responsible for the overall enterprise strategy and operations for ATB Financial. Curtis' team ensures we can accelerate, facilitate and support strategies across the entire enterprise and, at the same time, make sure good ideas get easily implemented through good processes and leading systems. Curtis jointed ATB in 2009 and was responsible for building a new line of business serving business and agriculture customers. With his new role, Curtis will ensure that the lines of business are well served and customers' needs are always front and centre.

Prior to joining ATB, Curtis spent 23 years with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, most recently as Vice President, Retail Markets for Alberta where he led 2,000 employees and was accountable for 800,000 clients.

Curtis earned an agriculture diploma from the University of Saskatchewan, along with a management diploma and an MBA from Athabasca University. He also has a strong commitment to his community. Curtis serves on a number of boards including, Ag for Life, the Campaign Cabinet for the United Way in Calgary, and Theatre Calgary.

Curtis resides near Calgary with his wife and two sons. He enjoys dirt biking, golf and any other outdoor activity.

It might seem like a bit of a paradox to have strategy and operations within one group, but for ATB Financial to succeed we need to keep these two integrated areas focused on the same end goal. Liz is charged with the strategic areas of: acting as a catalyst and steward of ATB 2.0; enabling and accelerating multi-line strategies; and being a thought starter of the un-enunciated needs of our customers.

Reporting to Liz will be our Alberta Intelligence & Innovation group, along with the Corporate Business Planning team. Both areas ensure a unique understanding of Albertans and strong collaboration with all the line of business, creating a consistency in planning.

Liz joined ATB in January 2010 as the VP Sales & Service, Strategy within IB&Ag. During her time there, Liz created a team that focused on delivering on IB&Ag’s associate and customer value propositions. Prior to joining ATB, Liz worked within the financial industry for 23 years in numerous positions. Liz has earned the FICB designation, an MBA from Dalhousie University, and is a Certified Financial Planner. Liz is very excited to join the Strategy and Operations team.

Mike is responsible for providing information technology leadership in computing operations, security, architecture, communications networks, and disaster recovery for IT services as well as corporate project management implementation and tracking to all business units.

Michael joined ATB Financial in May 2007 after spending 11 years with IBM Canada, focused on delivering quality information technology services within the financial services industry.

Born in Edmonton, Michael has worked in cities across Canada including Vancouver, Toronto, Regina and Calgary. Michael is a graduate from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Revolutionize, transform, metamorphose...these are all synonyms for innovate and are words that could easily fit within Don Good’s job description. The VP Innovation is responsible for continuously finding new ways to harness the power of our new banking system, and who better to do that than Don Good. Don first joined the Core team in 2007 and throughout the last four years has been a key leader in seeing the implementation succeed and establishing the Enterprise Support Centre.

Don’s role will oversee a newly created innovation centre within ATB.This centre will make ATB’s banking system a showcase for innovation. Working with SAP and other strategic partners, both internally and externally, the innovation centre will act as a sandbox for new ideas within our banking system. This centre will also act as a demonstration centre for banks around the globe to understand our world leading and fully integrated solution.

Don joined ATB in 1980 and his wealth of experience has seen him working in various roles in branches and in ITSD, Central Services, Internal Audit, Operations, just to name a few. Don will continue to oversee the Enterprise Support Centre for the interim.

Dean Ozanne is responsible for Central Services and Operations, providing service and support to the sales network. Central Services provides processing services for all retail, business, agricultural loans and deposits. Dean's team also includes Loan Review, Branch Support — a one-stop help desk that is the primary contact point for branches to obtain answers to questions on ATB policy, business rule or process and the Business Ownership Group, which looks after all of the enhancements and operational requirements of ATB's sales-related software applications.

Dean has a degree in Economics from the University of Alberta. He has a diverse background, having held many different jobs prior to starting his banking career. They range from managing a golf course, a crane company and a hotel, to script-writing for Occupational Health and Safety movies to working as a construction tech for Bechtel on the construction of the Syncrude plant.

Dean was recently appointed as a founding trustee for the First Nations Market Housing Fund, is a board member of the Canadian Payments Association, is an ex-board member with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and is a volunteer advisor with Canadian Executive Services Offshore (CESO) International Services. CESO provides subject matter experts in Canada and abroad to help with local economic development initiatives.

Kirsti Jansson leads ATB's Channels and Payments Group, which is one of the most dynamic places to work in all of ATB. Technology has had and continues to have a profound impact on all of our lives. Learning how to leverage technology to make our clients' lives easier is very rewarding and is what drives our team of keen and energetic ATB associates. In addition to the new and shiny, Kirsti's team also works hard within the operations group to make sure your money safely gets to its destination, that the ABMs are ready and waiting for you and the you can pay your bills online, anytime you want. Understanding the customer and making life easier can be achieved through channel and payments innovation.

Kirsti's experience in banking began on the front lines 20 years ago as a teller in Vancouver. From there she worked her way through the ranks eventually hitting Bay Street in Toronto where she had hands-on experience in innovative payments by working on the very first mobile banking pilot in Canada. Her passion was sealed and she knew exactly where she wanted to be. Having been on the front lines, she has a real appreciation for the simplicity that customers truly desire.

Kirsti's passion is life in the mountains. Having been a nature and animal lover over for years, the move to Alberta was certainly a good one for her. She is constantly taken aback by the unique beauty of this province and she and her husband spend as much time as possible soaking up all of the adventures they possibly can.