Jeff is the Principal Financial Planner and owner of Jeff Lyle Insurance Group Inc., an agency of Co-operators, based in Ontario. He holds a Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation specializing in property & casualty insurance and insurance risk management. He also holds a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) designation specializing in Advanced Estate and Financial Planning for individuals, families, businesses as well as not-for-profit and co-operative organizations. Jeff had previously worked in various capacities within the national claims, underwriting and distribution departments for the Co-operators Group of Companies since 2002. Jeff went on to open his own Co-operators Agency in Nov. 2009. Jeff has a passion for supporting the NFP sector and has volunteered coaching and mentoring youth through sports over the last 23 years. Jeff is the Co-Founder and Past President of Waterloo Wolverines Basketball Association. Jeff resides in the downtown core of Toronto for the last 4 years and witnesses the brutal conditions of homelessness on a daily basis. Jeff attributes Ryan’s persistent outreach through social media as his catalyst to being able to actually do something about it.