Executive Leadership Team

Damienne is General Counsel and Head of the FP Canada Standards Council.  She also acts as FP Canada’s Privacy Officer. 

Damienne leads FP Canada™’s certification program and requirements for CFP^® certification and QAFP^® certification, overseeing policies, exams and professional standards and competencies, in the public interest. Damienne also leads the FP Canada Standards Council’s complaint intake, enforcement and discipline tribunal functions. 

Called to the Bar in Ontario in 2002, Damienne began her career as a commercial litigator in private practice with Bennett Jones LLP before transitioning into professional governance and regulation with the Law Society of Ontario in 2009. Damienne joined FP Canada in 2014. 

Named one of Wealth Professional’s 2017 Women of Influence, Damienne is committed to volunteerism and community involvement. She is a Hearing Panel Chair and Member of the Discipline and Fitness to Practise Hearing Panel Roster with the Ontario College of Teachers, and the past Chair of both the Review Committee Panel for the Human Resources Professional Association and the Advocates’ Society Regulatory and Administrative Law Practice Group.