Our Team

As Regional Vice-President, Wealth Planning, Sara works closely with our high net worth clients to identify issues and provide complex, tactical wealth planning support that complements their wealth plans. Sara has a particular focus on tax and financial planning strategies for business owners, professionals and other affluent individuals and families.
Sara joined CI Assante Private Client in 2019 after working as a Senior Tax Manager at Kraft Berger LLP. As part of Kraft Berger’s tax team, Sara provided tax planning and compliance services to owner-managed companies and cross-border businesses. Sara also previously served as Senior Tax Manager at KPMG LLP in their real estate tax group. There she worked with some of Canada’s largest asset management companies and real estate developers as well as their high net worth families. Sara has experience advising clients on estate and succession planning, corporate structuring and excise tax. Sara brings more than a decade of professional wealth planning experience to CI Assante Private Client.
Sara is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who has completed the CICA’s In-Depth Tax Courses. In addition, she holds the Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) designation.

As  Regional  Vice-President,  Wealth  Planning,  Dilmini  works  closely  with  our  high  net  worth  clients  to  identify  issues  and provide complex, tactical wealth planning support that complements  their  wealth  plans.  Dilmini  has  a  particular  focus  on  estate  planning  and  wealth  transfer  strategies  for  business owners, professionals, and other affluent individuals and families. 

Dilmini   joined   CI   Assante   Private   Client   in   2019   after   practicing  estates  law  in  private  practice.  During  her  time  in  private  practice,  she  worked  both  as  an  estate  planning  lawyer  and  represented  clients  in  estate  litigation  matters.  Dilmini  assisted  clients  with  establishing  and  implementing  individualized   estate   plans   that   prioritized   their   wishes   and views with respect to legacy building. As a litigator, she represented beneficiaries, estate trustees, and guardians for property and personal care. Dilmini has appeared before all levels of Court in Ontario. 

Dilmini is a lawyer with a Bachelor of Law degree  from the University  of  Birmingham  (UK)  and  a  Bachelor  of  Science  degree  from  York  University.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Law  Society of Upper Canada  and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. 

As a Regional Wealth Planner, Shane Kirby facilitates the delivery of wealth planning reports. Using a needs-based approach, Shane works with our clients to not only gather pertinent financial information, but more importantly, to identify issues and help our clients articulate and document their goals to build a plan that meets their complex needs. Working with the support of the wealth planning team, Shane delivers a strategy that addresses retirement planning, cash flow management, risk management, business planning and estate planning.

Shane became part of CI Assante Private Client in 2001. His experience in wealth planning and financial services spans over 20 years. First, he was a member of the Sales and Service team in Central Ontario, where he formed strong relationships with advisors and their teams. This led to the role of Private Client Manager in April of 2004 as well as Regional Wealth Planner in 2009.

Shane holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Carleton University.

As Vice-President of Estate Planning, Troy Rumpel is well-positioned to deal with the technical aspects of our clients’ more complex situations. He works to mitigate risk, protect assets, and provide tax deferral strategies and solutions that allow a smooth transition of estate or business assets to the beneficiaries or surviving partners. He provides in-depth information on various insurance products and services that compliment the overall wealth management for our clients.
Troy provides more than 25 years of financial services industry experience with roles of increasing responsibility from advisor to regional manager to vice-president with several leading Canadian insurers prior to joining Assante in September 2004.

He has earned the Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Registered Health Underwriter (RHU) designations and is a member of CALU, Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting.

Troy is based in Hamilton and services the province of Ontario as well as looking after the Assante Estate & Insurance Services field teams across the country.