An experienced wealth management and private banking leader, Mr. Wright has most recently performed the role of Senior Vice President & Head, International Wealth Management for Bank of Nova Scotia in Toronto with specific responsibility for their wealth management business in the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. He was also Chair of the BNS trust company in the Bahamas and a Director of a number of Caribbean based businesses in the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.

In that role and prior roles he defined, planned and executed the strategy to build and grow the wealth management group of businesses internationally and led wealth management professionals globally in many disciplines. In prior roles he was an original member of executive team creating the strategy for the domestic Wealth Management division in Canada and key to execution of the strategy and business model.

Managing Director of Wealth Management for CIBC FirstCaribbean, Mark Young, said: “Dan will be leading the implementation of our new strategy to deliver a holistic advisory service to Private Wealth Management clients of CIBC FirstCaribbean regionally and internationally. He brings a wealth of experience from his previous roles that were for very similar regional geographies to our own, which makes me very confident he can provide a very compelling offer to our most valuable private banking client.”

Mr. Wright will initially be based in our Cayman Islands office which is one of our largest Wealth Management businesses.