About us

Gino Scialdone, CFP®, CLU®, CHS

Financial Advisor

A financial advisor for 16 years and founder of Black Spruce Financial, Gino helps business owners, professionals and individuals achieve financial goals through assessing their financial needs and opportunities, reducing their taxable income, and improving their overall sense of security and future goals and objectives. As a Certified Financial Planning® professional, a Gino assists wealth management by protecting and growing his clients’ assets in the following areas of expertise: Investment Planning, Insurance Planning, Tax Planning, Estate Planning, Succession Planning and Retirement Planning.

Wealth Management for Business Owners

Having run a family business himself, Gino is dedicated to providing the highest-quality advice to independent business owners and is committed to understanding their needs and goals better than anyone else.

After completing the Canadian Securities Course (CSC), and upon completion of the LLQP (Life License Qualification Program), he became a licensed Financial Advisor. Gino has also completed the Wealth Management Essentials course. His Chartered Life Underwriter® (CLU®) and Certified Health Specialist (CHS) designations are unparalleled aids when helping independent Canadian business owners. Gino is actively involved in charity work. He is an avid cyclist and stays on top of his game by training for triathlons.

Our interests lie in your interests.

So when we’re providing our clients with wealth management products and services, my staff and I constantly ask ourselves:

  • “Is this the way I would want to be treated? How can I improve it?
  • Would I be happy with this service? How can I improve it?
  • If I were in the client’s shoes, would I use our services? How can I improve it?”