President
Industrial Alliance Securities
In October 2018, John Kelleway was named president of Industrial Alliance [iA] Securities, which has quickly become one of the leading independent advisor networks. In 2017, iA acquired HollisWealth from Scotiabank and has been growing from that acquisition since. Kelleway was an instrumental part of that acquisition; as a former advisor himself, he’s looking to provide all iA advisors with the tools they need to succeed.
“I think it all comes down to the end-client experience and enabling advisors to expand on that experience,” Kelleway told WPC earlier this year. “We offer the tools and technology to help them do that.”
Kelleway is also working on aligning all of the different silos at iA Securities and spreading the word about just how big a footprint the firm has in the Canadian investment landscape. “Our wealth division – IIROC and MFDA – has over $82 billion in assets under management,” he told WPC, “and I don’t think people realize we are one of the largest non-bank wealth managers in the country.”
