Mark Barnicutt has over twenty years of North American wealth management experience diversified by both area of responsibility (client sales & service, investment management, product management, risk management, technology, operations, & finance) & business line (investment counselling, financial planning, trust, private banking, and brokerage).

Mark is the Co-Founder and President of HighView Financial Group,  an experienced investment counselling firm, acting as an outsourced Chief Investment Officer, that designs, implements and helps manage tailored investment portfolio for Advisor, Family & Institutional clients since 2005.

Previously, as the Chief Operating Officer of the High Net Worth businesses of RBC Financial Group, Mark was responsible for the investment solutions delivery and the coordination of operational and technology support for one of Canada’s largest investment counselling firms and trust companies: RBC Private Counsel, and RBC Trust Services. During this time, Mark was also the President & Chief Operating Officer of RBC Private Counsel (USA) Inc., an SEC regulated advisory firm. With roughly $23 billion of client assets under care for these businesses, Mark co-led the delivery of an innovative multi-manager investment offering specifically designed for Canadian High Net Worth clients.

Prior to his role, Mark was the Vice President & Director of the discretionary investment management program of RBC Dominion Securities: Private Investment Management. In this role, Mark led a team of investment professionals who established a core set of operational, technological and risk management practices that facilitated the subsequent five-year growth of this program from $600 million to $6 billion in assets under administration.

In addition to his management roles, Mark worked for five years, with TD Financial Group, advising and servicing many high net worth families, as both a Private Banker and Investment Counsellor.

Mark is an alumnus of the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor where he earned both a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Finance & Accounting, and a Master of Business Administration degree. Prior to attending the University of Windsor, Mark completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Western Ontario. Professionally, Mark holds the designations, Chartered Financial Analyst, and Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.  Mark is a past member of the Private Client Committee of the Toronto CFA Society, a current member of the Advisory Board of the Odette School of Business and a past member of the Investment & Corporate Governance Committee of the Portfolio Management Association of Canada.