Rod Burylo is a financial services innovator, international key-note speaker, and business author.

Rod is the Chief Compliance Officer, and founding partner, of Global Exempt Market Solutions, Western Canada's leading Exempt Market Dealer. He provides popular public education and professional development programs in conjunction with leading financial organizations, such as Advocis, IFSE, and the Exempt Market Dealer Association.

For more than 15 years, Rod has provided motivational key-note presentation and seminars throughout North America for a wide range of top-performing financial services and real estate organizations.

Rod has contributed prolifically to the financial services industry as a business author, columnist and contributor to numerous publications throughout Canada and the United States. His books, Awesome Client Events (2001), and Move It or Lose It (2007), have sold out; More Awesome Client Events – 10th Anniversary Edition will be released in 2011.

Rod is an accomplished investment advisor – receiving accolades throughout the financial services industry. For his expertise in the area of international retirement planning, Rod was presented with the prestigious Advisor of the Year Award in 2004.