About us

Dana spearheads the collaborative efforts of the Client Strategies Team support for your financial advisor. She is part of a multi-disciplinary group of professionals who provide guidance on investment management, estate planning services, credit solutions, insurance and annuity strategies, professional trustee services and trust consulting, retirement solutions, capital markets engagement, banking solutions and more. Called upon for support at various times throughout your wealth management journey, Dana works diligently to address clients’ unique situations.

As an RBC Echelon wealth strategist, Robert partners with financial advisors and their ultra-high-net-worth clients to understand what is most important to them and to help develop appropriate strategies that address the client’s objectives and concerns. Robert serves as a knowledgeable resource in the area of complex wealth, including planning strategies for corporate executives, trust and estate planning services, concentrated stock options, business succession planning and philanthropic planning. He also coordinates solutions and external professional services tailored to RBC Echelon clients' needs. 

Jen serves as a resource for your financial advisor in determining and developing wealth transfer strategies for high-net-worth clients in areas including estate strategies, lifetime giving, personal trust planning, charitable giving, concentrated equity position diversification and employee stock options. In this role, Jen partners with financial advisors to meet with individual clients and their attorneys and/or accountants, as well as present at client seminars.

As a member of the Managed Portfolio Strategies Team, Brian serves as the primary source of advice on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and managed accounts. The team provides customized advisory support via investment strategy, product selection and portfolio construction, as well as contributing to the management of discretionary model portfolios.

Melissa serves as a resource for your financial advisor in determining and developing wealth transfer strategies for high-net-worth clients in areas including estate strategies, lifetime giving, personal trust planning, charitable giving, concentrated equity position diversification and employee stock options. In this role, Melissa partners with financial advisors to meet with individual clients and their attorneys and/or accountants, as well as present at client seminars.

Michael is a high-net-worth lending specialist and as such works with financial advisors and their high-net-worth clients to develop tailored solutions to help achieve their unique lending needs.

As a trust consultant, Aaron specializes in personal trust planning and assists in the movement of client trust assets, provides educational and technical guidance relating to personal trusts and advises clients on opportunities with third-party professional trust partners. 

Susan is a member of the Fixed Income Business Development team based in Minneapolis, where they help market taxable and tax-exempt bonds to both the Transactional and Advisory platforms. She works closely with advisors to assist with portfolio evaluation and construction, generate proposals, provide tax loss swap ideas, along with giving branch presentations featuring our best trade ideas across the fixed income market.