Michael Katchen

Michael Katchen is a Canadian entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the founder and chief executive officer of Wealthsimple, the Toronto-based digital wealth-management platform. He grew up in Cochrane, Alberta, and studied business at the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Early in his career, Katchen worked in consulting at Deloitte and later joined the photography community 500px as head of growth. In 2014, he founded Wealthsimple with the aim of making low-cost investing accessible to everyday consumers, helping to popularize automated “robo-advising” in Canada.

Under Katchen’s leadership, Wealthsimple expanded beyond automated investing into a broader consumer fintech platform, adding stock trading, cash accounts, and cryptocurrency services. The company has become one of Canada’s most prominent fintech firms, and Katchen has been recognized in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Finance and featured widely in Canadian business media as a representative voice of the country’s fintech sector.

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