President of Lending
Dean Kirkham
With over two decades of diverse finance experience, Dean Kirkham has held executive leadership roles, including president, co-chief executive officer, chief operating officer and chief credit officer. In these positions, he has driven corporate strategy and aligned operations to achieve organizational goals while navigating complex market cycles and delivering long-term value.
His leadership journey is defined by a commitment to inspiring teams and fostering talent. With the belief that effective leadership hinges on setting a clear vision, empowering others to excel, and maintaining a disciplined focus on execution, he takes pride in creating opportunities and driving sustainable results. Dean began his career with ABN AMRO’s investment bank in Amsterdam and later New York. He spent over a decade at Bank of Montreal, the eighth-largest bank in North America by assets, where he held executive leadership roles on the business’s origination and risk sides.
Most recently, Dean held progressively senior roles over nine years and served as a partner at Trez Capital, a diversified real estate investment firm and preeminent provider of private commercial real estate debt and equity financing solutions in Canada and the United States. Dean earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Schulich School of Business at York University.