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The Fall of the House of Sharpe: What Exactly Happened to Bridging Finance?
– canadianbusiness.com
When they started out in the ’90s, David Sharpe and Natasha Hilfer were both both fiercely smart and exceedingly ambitious, with eyes on the finance sector. But both believed they had to overcome, as David once said, the implicit need-not-apply sign Bay Street hung to ward off anyone who was different. Natasha, who holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, had to battle the old boys’ club. David, meanwhile, who is Mohawk and a member of the Tyendinaga First Nation, felt he had to hide the fact that he is Indigenous. He would repeatedly say that, for the first 15 years of his career, he refused to acknowledge his roots to anybody he worked with: “Because,” as he put it, “I wanted to grab power.”
The pair married in 1996 and soon made it on Bay Street. David graduated from Queen’s University with a law degree, got his Master of Laws at Osgoode Hall and then earned his MBA from Ivey Business School. From there, he worked as the chief compliance officer at several firms, including Citigroup and CI Financial, and served as director of investigations at the Mutual Fund Dealers Association…
