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Published on: 7/5/2009
Last Visited: 7/5/2009
Karen Gibbard AMP, Principal
Education: Karen Gibbard has a Bachelor of General Studies from SFU and in 1992 successfully completed the, Mortgages: A Real Estate Financing Course, through UBC to gain her Mortgage Broker’s license.
Expertise/Business Background: Before becoming an independent Mortgage Broker in 2000, Karen held a number of key positions in the financial industry.
These included working as a Mortgage Development Manager, focusing solely on obtaining client’s mortgages; as an Internal Loan & Mortgage Auditor, ensuring lending staff underwrote loans (including mortgages) to internal and external standards; and numerous loan / mortgage officer & supervisory positions at VanCity Credit Union.
Karen started her career working in the financial industry in 1988 at the Bank of Montreal in Vancouver.
Activities: When not focusing on her career, Karen enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Karen has a young son named Luka, a yorkie named Elmo, and loving husband, Dan.
Traveling and seeing the World is one of Karen’s biggest passions and recently celebrated her 40th Birthday in Egypt; a life-long dream of hers to see.
Closer to home, Karen enjoys hiking on the North Shore and in Whistler.