John C McLeod

John has spent most of his career in the financial services sector working with RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) a large multi-national banking group where he held a number of roles including global head of sales at RBC Global Private Banking, as well as an executive role at a Swiss based privately held wealth management conglomerate which focuses on investments, banking and trust companies where he served as CEO of a group of international trust companies as well as a member of the group executive committee.

After a successful career in the financial services industry John founded GFP Alliance Limited (Global Fiduciary Partner Alliance). GFP is an association of some of the world’s most prominent independent advisors. During his career John has enjoyed the opportunity to work with some of the worlds’ top independent advisors in such fields as law, taxation, accountancy, banking, insurance, investments, citizenship and residency, healthcare, art and collectables, yachts and aircraft, personal and commercial real estate, privately held businesses, majority shareholders in publicly traded businesses, cyber and personal security experts to name a few.

John has presented to numerous professional associations and wealth groups such as the Met Circle in New York, TTN (Transnational Taxation Network) and Tiger 21 on topics around intergenerational wealth transfer, asset protection, private trust companies as a tool for wealthy families.

GFP Alliance Limited provides independent unbiased advice to wealthy individuals, families, family offices and professional advisors. Our specialty is identifying undetected risks and opportunities and to develop an intergenerational wealth preservation strategy for each client. GFP works in complete collaboration with clients existing advisory team (lawyers, accountants, corporate managers, insurers, asset managers, art advisors, citizenship and residence advisors, healthcare advisors etc.) to develop a customized intergenerational wealth preservation and rejuvenation strategy. The 100-year plan. GFP is the only company in the world which looks at every asset, liability and risk facing clients and develops strategies which will protect and enhance wealth and facilitate family self-actualization. GFP is not aligned with any single bank, trustee, insurer, asset manager, health care provider, law firm, accountancy firm, real estate broker, but has direct access to a number of the top practitioners in each of these specialties in 35 countries around the world. If your advisory team doesn’t have the specialized skills required, we will work with existing advisors to bring in best in class resources and reasonable cost.

What sets GFP Alliance apart from other firms is that we remain engaged during the implementation of the strategies we recommend and which our clients and their advisors endorse. We bring the ideas and deliver them to completion and we are there for periodic review. This 100-year plan becomes the centerpiece of the client / family governance plan and activities and often acts as a source of family education for subsequent generations.