Your Marketing Team
Meet your Pod Squad! Each member of our team has years of experience and are experts in their specialty. They are part of Top Advisor Marketing because they believe in simple. Simple means affordable, intriguing, sustainable, fun, and effective.

Kirk Lowe
Founder | Influence & Relationship Accelerator
He and his team are influence and relationship accelerators. Everything they do is built around the power of podcasting and helping people who compete in the expertise economy to own their specific expertise, with their specific audience, and in their specific region.
Kirk has been a thought leader in branding, content marketing and digital marketing for 20+ years. He generously shares his ideas and experiences through his podcast (Top Advisor Marketing Podcast), blog, papers, webinars, courses and has been published across the industry.

Matt Halloran
Partner | Podcasting Expert
Matt respects how tough it is to be great and effective at marketing while running a practice, living a life, and loving a family. He teaches advisors how to be themselves, let their passions shine through and create strong brands that resonate with ideal prospects and centers of influence.
Matt’s first book “The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors” available on Amazon was a big hit. He’s been leading the social wave in financial services for years – teaching top advisors how to be human in an oftentimes inhuman industry. His second book “99 best ideas”, was an Amazon bestseller and is filled with marketing ideas.
In his list of accomplishments, Matt has served in the Navy, is a trained therapist, been a radio host, and worked as a financial professional too. Matt’s breadth of hands on experience positions him superbly to help financial professionals build the marketing side of their practices. He’s been there, done that and has the T-Shirt.
Matt is married with two twin teenage boys. They are avid swimmers. Oh, and Matt’s dogs are a big ole St. Bernard and a rescue pitbull mix named Luke (after the Jedi).

Lisa Ferguson
Director of Operations

Jessica Brown
Marketing Editor
Her love for stories evolved through her schooling and carreer to journalism. Jessica is in good company at Top Advisor Marketing– a marketing team with storytelling in its DNA.
Jessica helps financial advisors engage with their online audience in meaningful and genuine ways. She believes that when financial advisors tell stories about their brands, their audience can connect with them on a human level. Only then can financial advisors use social media to its utmost potential: to build and strengthen relationships.
Jessica has a Masters of Journalism and Communications degree. She is a fan of dogs, weightlifting, libraries and chocolate cake.

Julia Ritchie
Client Relationship Manager
Julia is a lover of all things writing. With a passion for helping others and a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Communications, Julia is devoted to using her skill set to help people from all walks of life tell their stories.
Julia is also a strong believer in lifelong learning, and enjoys conducting extensive research to maximize the impact and effectiveness of her work.
At Top Advisor, Julia is now bringing her writing to the social media landscape, where she’s helping advisors tell their stories and connect with those who matter most online.
When she’s not in the office, Julia loves to read anything and everything, spend too much time keeping up with pop culture, and keeps active by running and swimming.

Lauren Bus
Client Relationship Manager
Lauren holds a Master’s degree in Journalism and Communication, and she uses this background to help clients tell their stories. She works with advisors to connect with their audiences and strengthen relationships with their clientele.
When she’s not working, Lauren is a lover of animals, the outdoors, and all things green. She practices yoga, is a novice knitter, and consumes far too much caffeine.

Robyn Walter
Executive Administrator

Jennifer Chandler
Podcast Coordinator
Now that Jen is an empty nester, she plans to spend her off-duty time traveling through Ontario with her husband to watch their daughter play soccer at the university level. Jen also enjoys camping with her family (well, it’s more like “glamping” but she still gets mosquito bites and cooks over an open flame, so it counts!).

Jennifer Thom
Podcast Coordinator

Aric Johnson
Podcast Host
Aric is extremely passionate about helping others find success and fulfilment in all they do. He has been coaching and mentoring for over 20 years and finds his greatest fulfillment when helping others achieve more. Aric started his own coaching and consulting company in 2015, a second company focused on teaching BRI to advisors and has also joined our team as one of our podcast voice talents.
Aric knows how difficult it can be for any business owner to have their voice heard above the rest of the voices clients and prospects hear in their daily lives. He helps our clients find their voice and bring their personality and passion to their audience.
Aric and his wife Candi have helped raise 68 at risk youth as well as having two children of their own. Aric and Candi have two grandchildren and they, along with his VERY large dog, to keep him busy.

Patrice Sikora
Podcast Host
that time has been focused on financial and consumer reporting, I have also hosted continuing education
telecasts for medical personnel including nurses and doctors. There was even a stint teaching environmental
education in the middle of a swamp. A Master’s degree in Geography covers science and social issues…not just
“where” something might be, but “how” it works and “why.” It is a wonderful background for a journalist.

Sasha Stanisic
Social Media Assistant
In his free time, Sasha enjoys spending his time with his close friends and watching his sports teams.

Disha Melwani
Social Media Assistant
Born in Santiago, Chile, with a strong Indian background, Disha speaks Spanish and English and knows two other Indian languages. She has completed several internships in the journalism and communication industry in Canada and Chile.
She enjoys spending time with her family and friends, travelling, and exploring new places. In her free time, you will find her catching sunsets, writing, watching movies/shows, listening to music, and going shopping.

Emily Ingham
Social Media Assistant
Starting out in retail, she has seen it all and then some. She believes in working hard to get where you want to go. Always eager to learn something new, she is currently bilingual but wanting to expand her knowledge.
At the end of the day, Emily likes to curl up with a cup of white hot chocolate and a good book to settle in for the night.

Zinnia Khan
Social Media Assistant
Zinnia is a recent graduate who majored in marketing and minored in operations management. She is extremely passionate about helping, inspiring, and encouraging others to accomplish their dreams. She has a love for social media, as she can come up with new and creative content/ ideas. She also enjoys event planning. Her personal interests include travelling, painting, playing baseball, and competing in a hardcore game of connect four.

Matt Muto
Podcast Editing
Matt brings a variety of skills to Top Advisor Marketing and the podcast production team. Independently, Matt works as a producer, composer, and musician in southern and eastern Ontario. He has worked with independent artists across a wide variety of genres, including Pop, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rock, Folk, and plenty more. Matt has also worked with a handful of businesses, composing and producing background music for ads and ad campaigns. In 2017 and 2018, he worked with Roots Canada and developed compositions for two of their seasonal ad campaigns.
Matt has worn plenty of other hats in the music industry as well, working for organizations like RX Music, The Vault Kingston, and The Grad Club. Some positions Matt has held with these groups and others include Music Journalist, Music Consultant, Live Audio Engineer, Concert & Festival MC, Radio DJ, Event Coordinator, Head of Event Marketing, and much more.
Prior to working with Top Advisor Marketing, Matt finished wrapping up a contract with one of Canada’s oldest radio stations, the CFRC, in Kingston, Ontario. Here, he produced, hosted, edited, mixed, and promoted two full programs for broadcast, and podcasting. The two shows, “Brought Back Home YGK” and “Timeline Rewind”, focused on local music and arts in Kingston, detailing the past and present wealth of talent found in Kingston’s arts scene, including some live music sessions as well from local musicians.
When Matt isn’t listening to music and working with audio, he enjoys playing soccer, basketball, and a variety of video games with friends.

Rebecca Rynard
Social Media Assistant
Rebecca is a recent marketing graduate. She has 4+ years of customer service experience demonstrating dependability and motivation. Rebecca is driven to let her creativity and determination thrive in this fast-growing industry of marketing. Specifically, she likes to focus on social media marketing and website design. She enjoys spending time with friends and family, attending live concerts, traveling, taking photographs, and baking treats. Rebecca believes that nothing ever comes easy without hard work and commitment.

Madison Thomas
Social Media Assistant
Madison is a recent graduate of the Business Administration – Marketing program. She has always had a passion for creativity and working with people and found that these passions aligned so well in Marketing. Madison loves the opportunity that Marketing allows for being creative while assisting people bring their branding dreams to reality! Madison approaches every new opportunity with determination and a smile on her face!
When you catch Madison in her free time, you can usually find her outdoors on hikes, spending time with her family and friends, or learning new recipes!

Jay Saspara
Social Media Assistant
Jay is in his 3rd year of the B-Comm. program at Ontario Tech University, pursuing a double major in Finance and Marketing. Jay plans on continuing his studies and earning his CFA designation. In the long term, Jay wants to become an entrepreneur and start a business of his own.
Jay enjoys spending time with friends, going to the gym, binging on Netflix, listening to music, and watching and playing cricket.