Simon Philp is a Market Vice President, and also handles commercial banking for CIBC, in which he leads teams on Vancouver Island, throughout the BC Interior and in the Yukon, and he is based in Victoria. Prior to joining CIBC in 2013, Simon spent 15 years in financial services in the Pacific Northwest, including 4 years in Seattle, WA covering large corporate clients. Simon has assisted companies with annual revenues ranging from a million into the many billions, both private, and public companies, across a wide variety of industries. Outside of work, Simon served on the board of a number of organizations, including Habitat Acquisition Trust, the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise, Canada America Society, and the joint venture between Certified Management Accountants and the CPA: the governance board for the unification of the BC accounting profession.