DFDustin Faraco
Open to Delivery Director roles · Toronto

I get complex financial-services programs delivered.

Delivery and transformation leader with nearly 20 years across custody, asset servicing, digital assets and AI automation. Former Director at RBC Investor Services, now co-founder of Elevate Group Consulting.

Dustin Faraco, smiling, wearing glasses and an orange corduroy jacket
CurrentlyCo-Founder, Elevate Group Consulting
Statement of record

The scale behind the work

Quantity Description
250,000+Users across 1,000+ institutional client relationships on a global client portal I led
8Project managers led, each owning a portfolio of IT projects
~$3MAnnual budget owned across digital products, services and vendor contracts (CAD)
4Core integrations delivered for a regulated Canadian digital-asset platform launch: custody, books and records, fiat on/off-ramp and AML surveillance feeds
−35%Processing time, with breaks cut 50%, through KPI frameworks I designed
~12Clients served by the consulting firm I co-founded
−75%Client team time on tasks like reconciliations, after AI automation
Selected work

Programs across finance, digital assets and payments

Custody, crypto, payments regulation and AI. The common thread is getting operations, technology, regulators and clients to move together.

RBC Investor Services

Global institutional client portal

2019 – 2022 · Associate Director, then Director

Institutional clients relied on the portal for analytics, reporting and service. I owned its digital strategy, governance and delivery.

  • Led 8 project managers and co-located teams of engineers, QA, UX designers and business analysts
  • Owned a ~$3M CAD annual budget and set priorities across 5–10 concurrent projects
  • Ran bi-weekly executive steering committees on budget and program status
  • Set SLAs and OKRs with technology vendors and coached PMP-trained PMs through the move to Agile
Scale1,000+ client relationships and 250,000+ users worldwide
Binance Canada

Canadian platform launch

2022 – 2023 · Solution Delivery Manager

Launching in Canada meant meeting local regulatory requirements and showing the Canadian business could operate independently.

  • Implemented a third-party custody solution integrated into the enterprise technology stack
  • Integrated a fiat on-ramp and off-ramp with a Canadian bank and a leading payments provider
  • Connected a books-and-records system via APIs and set up real-time Kafka feeds for AML market surveillance
  • Produced architecture diagrams for regulators and senior stakeholders
OutcomeContributed to launching the Canadian platform on a regulator-ready stack
Elevate Group Consulting

AI automation for operations teams

2023 – now · Co-Founder

Teams lose hours to manual document handling, reconciliations and repetitive customer questions. We use AI as a practical tool to take that work off their plate.

  • Agentic AI that captures data from identification and legal documents
  • Automated financial reconciliations
  • First-line customer service through chatbots and agentic email replies
  • Measurement frameworks that show executives the business value
ResultUp to 75% less time on tasks like reconciliations, across about a dozen clients
Elevate Group Consulting

RPAA readiness for payment service providers

Current engagements

Canada's Retail Payment Activities Act puts payment service providers under Bank of Canada supervision. We help PSPs understand where they stand and build what's missing.

  • Review existing policies against RPAA requirements
  • Assess regulatory gaps and readiness
  • Design the business processes and operating model to close them
Scope3 PSPs assessed, from policy review through process and operational design
Career

From client rep to director, then out on my own

  1. 2023 – now
    Co-Founder & Managing Partner
    Elevate Group Consulting

    Consulting firm serving about a dozen clients, 6 active, with a focus on AI and automation.

  2. 2022 – 2023
    Solution Delivery Manager
    Binance Canada · Remote
  3. 2022
    Director, Solution Design & Execution Promoted
    RBC Investor Services
  4. 2019 – 2022
    Associate Director, Solution Design & Execution Promoted
    RBC Investor Services
  5. 2015 – 2019
    Manager, Service Assurance Promoted
    RBC Investor Services

    Book of 15 institutional clients (pension plans, fund manufacturers and banks) worth ~$25M CAD in annual revenue.

  6. 2007 – 2015
    Senior Client Representative
    RBC Investor Services

    Five leading asset manager clients worth ~$15M CAD in annual revenue; complex securities transactions.

Certifications
  • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)Scrum Alliance · 2018
  • STAC CertificateSecurities Transfer Association of Canada
Leadership & community
  • Chair, Diversity Leadership CouncilRBC Investor Services
  • Treasurer, Board of DirectorsMTCC 678 · since 2025
Off the clock
  • HikingOntario trails, any season
  • Gardening & LegoSystems that reward patience

Hiring a delivery or transformation leader?

I'm looking for Delivery Director and transformation roles in financial services and consulting. I'd be glad to talk.