Meet our Sales Team
Vice President (Distribution)
Mark speaks to thousands of advisors across the country every year about growing their book of business; while carefully designing his talks to ensure they motivate, educate and most importantly increase sales. This next chapter in his career, Mark takes on one of the largest digital insurance companies in North America. Mark will continue building on leading a sales team with the fourth largest insurance company in Canada to number one net sales for six years running, and number one in gross Segregated Fund sales in Canada.
Mark has been in the life/investment industry for almost 30 years as an advisor and a sales team leader. In order to be a top producer or leading sales team it takes relentless energy. Mark is excited to be bringing this energy and experience to Specialty Life to reach new heights in the insurance industry.
National Sales Manager
Jihane El Azali a graduate of the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College had the pleasure to bring 8 years of Marketing and Public Relations experience to the Specialty Life Insurance field sales team in Spring 2020. Being a fully bilingual member of the sales team, Jihane educates, trains and assists both new and already contracted advisors and MGAs in QC, Ontario, and the Maritimes on new and existing products, processes and electronic applications.
During her 2 years at SLi, Jihane played a role in the pricing and launch of the Evolution portfolio and will continue to be involved in future product and marketing projects with the sales team.
Sales Director (ON)
Camila is a graduate of York University with extensive experience in marketing, sales and client relations. Her insurance career started 4 years ago as an advisor with HUB Financial. She then transitioned as an Internal Wholesaler with RBC Insurance where she specialized in Living Benefit Products. Camila is passionate about educating and partnering with brokers and advisors while being challenged to find the best-in-class solutions for their clients in the shortest amount of time.
Camila is excited to put all her skill-set and experience to work in her role as Sales Director at Specialty Life Insurance where she looks forward to creating relationships that will help elevate all parties’ success.
Sales Director (ON – Ottawa & Kingston, QC & Atlantic)
Eric had the pleasure of working at RBC Insurance for over 8 years. Starting as an advisor in the advice center, he thrived and managed to build lasting relationships with other professionals in the insurance business as a wholesaler.
He then transitioned to becoming a product specialist for Eastern Canada, being a successful coach while working directly with independent Field sales advisors.
Eric is proud to be bringing this experience to SLi, focusing on the Quebec & Atlantic Canada regions along with SLi’s industry-unique future-forward technology that makes qualifying and purchasing life insurance as easy as it should be.
Inside Sales Associate (BC)
Bilingual Inside Sales Associate (QC)
Lamiss Ben Jemia is a Tunisian international student born and raised in Qatar. Lamiss then moved to Montreal at the age of 18 and completed her studies in Finance. She lived in the province of Quebec for the last 12 years where she also studied English at Mcgill followed by biology. Lamiss is excited to bring her 10 years of experience in different fields of studies as well as sales, marketing and customer service, as she starts her new journey in the insurance industry with Specialty Life.
Sales Director (BC)
Inside Sales Associate (ON)
Varshni started her career in the insurance industry working with a top producer at Carte Wealth Management. She excelled in fostering valuable relationships with clients and other industry professionals as an Insurance professional.
Varshni is excited to be bringing her experience to the fast-growing team at SLi, as an Inside Sales Representative for Ontario.
