Scott Burk, Background

Scott Burk is a founding partner and president of Wealhouse Partners, a capital management firm, and a member of CIGI's Operating Board of Directors since 2007.

Mr. Burk began his investment career with Marleau Lemire Securities in Toronto in 1993 as a salesman on the firm's institutional equities desk. In 1995, Mr. Burk was appointed the head of institutional equity sales for Marleau Lemire. In that capacity, Mr. Burk oversaw a 12-person sales staff that covered North American accounts from the cities of Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and New York. In 1996, Mr. Burk joined Griffiths McBurney and Partners (now GMP Securities L.P.) as a senior partner on GMP's institutional sales desk in Toronto. Between 2001 and 2003, Scott was the president of Alternum Capital, a Canadian investment management firm that featured two pooled funds for the high net-worth marketplace.

In addition to serving on the operating board, Mr. Burk has also assisted CIGI's management team with its communications strategies. In February 2008, Mr. Burk was appointed a board member, an audit committee member and the treasurer of the newly formed Canadian International Council (CIC), a non-partisan think tank devoted to developing research-based international policy initiatives directed towards the Canadian federal government.