Ali Jaffer

CFO/Director

Ali has over 15 years of financial and administrative management experience in the software, alternative energy, and real estate sectors, working in both public and private companies. Prior to joining Donville Kent, Ali was the Chief Financial Officer of a software company ranked as one of North America’s Fastest Growing Companies in Deloittes’ Fast 500 program. Ali is a Chartered Professional Accountant and holds a Master of Business Administration in Investment Management from the Goodman Institute, Concordia University.

Anthony Pistillo

Senior Vice President

Anthony is a dedicated mortgage professional with over 20 years of industry experience. He graduated from the Seneca College Financial Services Underwriting Program in 2002. Just prior to joining RiverRock, Anthony was a Director of Underwriting with Home Trust. In that role, he worked closely with the senior management team to help grow the mortgage portfolio while ensuring files met company guidelines. Prior to making the switch to the lending side of the business, Anthony ran a successful mortgage brokerage operation.

Phil Braginetz

President of P. Braginetz Associates

Chairman of RiverRock Mortgage Investment Corporation & RiverRock Management Inc.

Phil Braginetz is the President of P. Braginetz Associates, a provider of consulting services to small and medium-sized financial institutions. Since 2008, his practice has focused on balance sheet risk assessments and regulatory compliance requirements. Over a prior career in treasury and capital markets, he held the positions of Chief Financial Officer of Home Capital Group Inc., Chief Operating Officer of Credit Union Central of Ontario, and Treasurer of Deutsche Bank Canada. Phil is a graduate of Montreal’s Concordia University, holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and serves on the board of directors of motusbank, Canada’s newest Schedule 1 chartered bank.

David Guiney

Director

David practiced corporate law for 15 years, mostly in his own firm, Tanner & Guiney Associates. He specialized in credit union and cooperative law on the local, provincial, and national levels. He was legal counsel on many credit union mergers and spent his entire legal career providing advice on corporate governance matters. In addition, David represented the credit union system in the drafting of Ontario’s credit union legislation and Canada’s cooperative credit association legislation.

In the final 10 years of his career, David was the COO of Ontario’s private, not-for-profit, new home warranty program.

David is a board member of: Lumenus Community Services,  GTA’s largest not-for-profit mental health, developmental, and community services, as well as, Xenia Concerts Inc., and Markland Wood Golf Club.

Charlotte Wang

Director

Charlotte is an AWS Enterprise Technologist, former CTO of IBM Canada and an IBM Distinguished Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the IT Industry. As a technical executive, Charlotte works closely with business and IT Executives to facilitate and accelerate cloud adoption. Key focus areas are people, culture and introducing new ways of working through Cloud Adoption Frameworks. Charlotte is known for bringing first rate strategic thinking, structure, and value to challenging digital and data as currency transformations. Charlotte brings clarity from chaos, never losing sight of achieving customer growth and cost optimization outcomes through cloud adoption. 

Charlotte is an active Out Executive at AWS, giving seminars, participating in panels, and providing leadership coaching and mentoring to ally’s and self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQ+i community.