Eric Muller

Occupation: Financial advisor with Investors Group Financial Services Inc.

Focus areas: Wealth Management, Investment Planning, Tax Planning, Retirement & Estate Planning, Insurance, Risk Management and Mortgages.

Personal and Professional Experiences

Mr. Muller was born in the Netherlands into a family of two doctors, a medical doctor and a dentist
As a child he was diagnosed with Dyslexia but through the relentless work of his mother, specialist and essentially himself he was able to retrain his brain to accommodate for this condition
When he was fourteen his family moved to Spain and started high school in a different language, English instead of Dutch
He ended up meeting his best friend in high school and believes that their friendship helped him determine that he wanted to go into the business field
His first taste of entrepreneurism was when he was eighteen, his best friend and himself started their own health food/vitamin business
After high school Mr. Muller went back to the Netherlands to study Business Economics at the University of Rotterdam and graduated with a Masters degree
During University he did work exchanges abroad. He travelled to Istanbul, Turkey to work for a Stock Brokerage firm and ended up doing his Masters degree on the Istanbul Stock Exchange
He met his Canadian wife while in Istanbul and is now happily married, with two children
After University he took a position with the largest bank in the Netherlands, this career spanned fifteen years in Investment Banking
He worked for ABN AMRO and then the Royal Bank of Scotland, in the Netherlands, New York City and later on, in Stockholm, Sweden
He helped some of the largest companies in the world finance their business by selling shares in their business to big investors.
He has travelled to places such as, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Africa and most of Europe
Some important accomplishments in his life are climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with his wife, running in the New York City Marathon and completing several triathlons
Four and a half years ago, his family moved to Canada, after this he made a decision to start his own business in Ottawa