Neil McLaughlin

As Group Head, RBC Wealth Management, Neil McLaughlin has global oversight and strategic leadership of RBC’s wealth management businesses, including wealth advisory businesses in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia, RBC Global Asset Management, RBC Investor Services, and RBC’s online brokerage, RBC Direct Investing. These businesses provide industry-leading wealth management solutions to individuals, families, and institutions globally, including advice-led and self-directed investment, credit, asset management and asset servicing solutions.

Together with other members of Group Executive, Neil is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC.

Prior to his current position, Neil was Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, where he was responsible for RBC’s banking businesses in Canada, the Caribbean and the U.S., including personal and commercial financial services, credit cards and payments, and digital solutions, as well as RBC’s sales and branch distribution, operations and advice centres. He was also responsible for RBCx, the tech banking and innovation group focused on re-imagining the role RBC plays in clients’ lives now and for the future. Neil played a critical leadership role throughout RBC’s acquisition and integration of HSBC Bank Canada, including executing a complex close-and-convert transition within a single weekend.

He joined RBC in 1998 and has held a wide range of senior management and executive positions including roles in commercial banking, credit card and personal lending, marketing, and risk.

Neil currently serves on the Sunnybrook Foundation Board of Directors. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an MBA, and lives in Toronto with his wife and their two children.