About Us

Guiding the way forward, together.
Our mission is to bring together local insights and collective strength to better serve our clients from coast to coast.
We elevate the trusted expertise of advisors you know, strengthen it through shared national capabilities, and deliver meaningful value across insurance, group benefits, and wealth advisory.

Reshaping insurance, risk management & financial services
Since 2014, Navacord has been on a bold journey to transform the insurance and financial services landscape in Canada. What began as a vision to preserve the entrepreneurial spirit of local brokerages has grown into a national champion delivering strength, stability, and trusted advice.
Today, we bring together independence and scale – combining local service with national reach.

Navacord Journey
One brand. One vision. One Navacord, uniting Broker Partners across the country under a single brand and shared mission for the future: becoming a champion for Canadian clients, communities, businesses, and families. Simultaneously, a transformational merger with Acera Insurance brings together two industry leaders, poised to create the country’s largest privately held insurance brokerage, employee benefits and wealth advisory firm.
The transition to a unified national brand begins in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia, bringing regional Broker Partners together under the Navacord name while preserving the trusted relationships and local expertise that define the organization.
Continued investment in people, technology and specialized capabilities enhances the support available to Broker Partners and positions Navacord for sustainable growth.
Navacord’s scale reaches a record-breaking milestone with an expanded presence of Broker Partners from coast to coast.
A growing network of Broker Partners takes shape as leading firms across Canada continue to join Navacord, establishing the foundation for a national organization.
Navacord is founded with a vision to build a different kind of brokerage model—one that combines entrepreneurial spirit, local expertise, and national strength.
Why choose Navacord
Our deep sector expertise solves complex challenges across insurance, group benefits, and wealth advisory
National strength and local expertise, delivered from coast to coast.
- 150+
Offices across Canada
- 5,000
Insurance and financial services professionals
- 1,100
Canadian employee shareholders working in our business

Built on partnership
A better way to work together
- Build strong relationships: Our partnerships are built on trust, transparency, and a shared commitment to doing what’s right for clients – creating a foundation for long-term success.
- Grow together over time:
We invest in long-term growth by aligning expertise and capabilities across our business, to deliver solutions that evolve with our clients’ needs. - Stay connected:
Our integrated model brings together deep expertise and national resources—combining hands-on insight with the scale and stability to deliver more for our clients.
Our leadership team
Powered by expertise, shaped through collaboration.

T. Marshall Sadd
Executive Chairman

Shawn DeSantis
President & CEO

Lee Rogers
Vice Chairman

Andrew Kemp
Vice Chairman

Steve Ridgeway
Chief Financial & Operating Officer

Jeff Piercy
Chief Strategy & Capital Markets Officer

