Colin Reid is the owner and president at Reid Financial Strategies Inc., located in Ancaster, Ont.. Colin has been licensed as a Portfolio Manager with the IIROC dealer Aligned Capital Partners Inc. since April 2014, and as an Investment Advisor since September 2012. For four years prior to that he was licensed with the MFDA dealer FundEX Investments Inc. Colin has been life licensed since September 2010 and has been able to leverage this along with his expertise in tax planning and preparation to offer clients a holistic approach to their finances. He was named as one of the top 25 “Young Guns” in the industry in the April 2017 edition of Wealth Professional Magazine. Colin obtained his PhD (with a focus in mathematics) from McMaster University in 2010 and his Masters of Science degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2006. He has recently earned the Chartered Investment Manager (CIM, 2014) designation and has been a Certified Financial Planner since February 2013. He has taken various other industry and income tax courses and the full list can be viewed on his LinkedIn profile. Colin is very active as a volunteer in his community of Dundas. He was been a member of the Dundas Lions Club since 2009, was a former First Vice-Chair of Dundas Community Services (DCS) and was a board member from 2011 to 2014. As part of his volunteer work at DCS, he was also Co-Chair of the Dundas Community Food Drive. He was formerly the Treasurer of Dundas Youth Soccer Club and was a board member from 2009 to 2014.