Our Partners
Mo Zhou, M.Sc., CFA, CFP
Director of Wealth Planning, BMO Wealth Planning
Mo is passionate about helping people becoming more knowledgeable and confident about their finances. He draws on extensive financial planning experience. With robust analytical skills, he leverages the knowledge and expertise of our in-house tax, estate, insurance and philanthropic professionals. Mo advises high net worth families and business owners on complex issues. This includes retirement and income planning, tax planning, cash management, business succession, estate planning, and charitable giving.
Sean Harding
Senior Wealth Planning Consultant, BMO Wealth Planning
Sean advises high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals, families, professionals and business owners on comprehensive wealth planning and structuring. In addition to drawing on his own extensive experience, Sean is a member of the BMO High Net Worth Planning team of specialists with expertise in taxation, estate and trust planning, business succession planning and philanthropy. Sean helps clients understand and define their needs and goals and can explain complex solutions in an easy to grasp approachable manner.
Sarah King, B.Comm. (Fin), PFP
Senior Estate & Insurance Advisor, BMO Estate Insurance Advisory Services
Sarah graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Commerce, with a focus on Finance and Risk Management. She joined the financial industry in 2006 and been helping with high net worth families achieve their goals ever since. She assists high net worth families with complex affairs, to preserve, grow and transition their wealth to future generations.
Sarah has enjoyed a very successful and impressive career to date, being a leading professional consultant in the insurance industry for major financial services firms. With over 12 years of experience in the Wealth Management industry, Sarah believe in long term, trusting relationships and works closely with advisors and their clients to provide customized solutions and strategies to meet their assets, and growing their estate. She provides each advisor, and their clients, with professional customer service and efficient timelines. Sarah is able to provide advice on Life Insurance, Critical Illness, Disability and Long Term Care.
An avid cyclist and skier, Sarah brings that same discipline and commitment to a variety of community and personal causes. Having biked across Canada twice for Kids Cancer, it is evident she is dedicated and determined at whatever she puts her mind to.
Amanda McCloy, CFP, CLU, TEP
Estate and Insurance Advisor, BMO Private Wealth
Amanda works with our clients to develop an estate plan and insurance strategies that can preserve or enhance their estate, communicate their wishes, provide protection in the event of critical illness or disability, and look after their family in the event of untimely deaths. Amanda began her career in the insurance industry over a decade ago. She brings a thirst for expanding knowledge and technical skills and has achieved her CFP, CLU and TEP, all of which focus on Estate and Tax planning. She is actively involved in the local financial planning community and sits on the board for the local chapters of Advocis and STEP.
Shawna Albornoz, MTI, TEP
Vice President of Trust Services, BMO Trust Company
Shawna Albornoz is the Vice President of Trust Services (Prairies) with BMO Trust Company, the fiduciary arm of the BMO Financial Group. Shawna has been in the Estate and Trust Industry since 2001 and she has administered over 130 Estate, Trust, Power of Attorney, and charitable foundation accounts during her career.
Through her experience as a corporate Executor and Trustee for high net worth clients, she has acquired the expertise to help families effectively plan for the transfer of wealth to the next generation and deal with all fiduciary responsibilities. Shawna holds her MTI designation from the Canadian Securities Institute, she is a member of The Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners (STEP), an international professional organization dedicated to promoting financial and estate planning considerations between generations and is a member of the Calgary Estate Planning Council (EPC).
Ching Du, B.Sc., CFP
Associate Director and Sr. Trust Officer
As a Trust Officer at BMO Private Wealth, Ching specializes in the efficient and effective transfer of wealth through estate and trust administration, power of attorney services, and financial concierge programs. Ching has worked in the financial industry for 25 years, and has over 15 years of experience in Wealth and Estate planning. Ching manages estates with various complexities and is well equipped to recognize and plan against potential issues in estate administration.