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Board of Directors for 2024

The following members are currently serving as your Board of Directors.

Blair Carruthers

President

Blair holds a Honours Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science with Electrical Engineering Electives from the University of Waterloo. Blair learned at an early age that you had to work for your money, so you should make your money work for you as well. This led to investing in stocks, GIC’s and real estate.

After many years of being a member of the Oakville Chapter of the CSTA, Blair took on the Chapter Head position. As the CSTA moved to become a professional only organization, Blair became the lead negotiator, with the CSTA and helped with the creation of CATA.

Julia Bruce

Board Member

Julia holds a BA in History from Queen’s University and after graduating in 2006 she moved to Edmonton and started work with TD Waterhouse, where she fell in love with finance and wealth management. After several years in the Financial Planning department, Julia left to start a family. Julia has since joined the CSTA (2019), joined CATA’s BOD as Secretary (2022), completed the Chartered Financial Technician (CFTe) certification (2022) and has joined the ATB Financials’ Wealth Management department (2022).

Faye Hamm

Board Member

In 2010 our financial advisor disappeared after losing 90% of our life's savings. Since then I've managed all aspects our finances and the results have exceeded our dreams. Around the same time we became empty nesters and it became a game to reduce our living expenses and invest the difference. I've beat the indexes every year but one. In 2019, I quit my job at an accounting firm to spend more time on the portfolio and pursue a healthy lifestyle. My husband still works as we're not financially ready to retire yet and still mid-50s. Recently we're enjoying a travel lifestyle by dog-sitting for friends in various places. We are making the most of the work from anywhere lifestyle!

Kevin Berwick

Board Member

Kevin holds a diploma in Electronics Engineering from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton along with a certificate in Project Management from Mount Royal University in Calgary. He has worked as a IT Project Manager / Business Analyst for the City of Calgary for a number of years in various IT project areas.

Currently Kevin works on IT projects as a contract Project Manager / Business Analyst through his own company based in St. Albert, Alberta.

Kevin has been an investor / trader for over 15 years and has developed a strong interest and reliance in technical analysis over the years to determine entry and exit strategies in trading.

Mark Kelly

Board Member

Mark graduated with a BSc in Chemistry and began his career at Dow Chemicals in Sarnia before returning to the University of Waterloo to obtain a PhD in Polymer Chemistry. After a 3-year stint in Leverkusen Germany with Bayer he returned to Alberta, Canada and worked for NOVA Chemicals. After 25 years of working on improving NOVA’s various gas phase polyethylene processes, he retired as a Senior Research Scientist. He started investing in the stock market by getting tips from his fellow workers at Dow and from there began to learn about technical analysis. After many years of online courses, live workshops, books and a lot of stock and option trades he transferred his many experiences and insights into his first book Dating the Stock Market - 10 Key Mindsets You Need to Excel as a Trader. The book explores some of the inner changes he feels are necessary to improve a trader’s performance. Through CATA, he is able to explore the markets with other knowledgeable traders and continues to learn the art of technical analysis.