Rick Forchuk, MBA, CFP, CLU, CH.F.C.
Associate Vice-President, Individual Distribution
Empire Life

Rick entered the life insurance business as a producer in 1971. He qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table four times before entering management on a full-time basis, and consistently produced more than 100 life applications each year.

He has been involved in a number of management capacities, including Training Manager, Sales Manager, Branch Manager, and Head Office National Director of Agent and Management Training. In his current role, he is responsible for the Empire Life’s individual distribution in Canada.

Rick is the past National President of the Manager’s Association of Financial Advisors of Canada (now GAMA), and is past president of the Vancouver chapter. He has been a member of Advocis executives in Vancouver, Edmonton, and in Waterloo, Ontario.

A frequent presenter and faculty member at Advocis Schools and Congresses from coast-to-coast in Canada, Rick has also spoken at several NAIFA meetings throughout the United States.

He has a BA in Media and Mass Communications, having come out of the daily newspaper and radio business, and he continues this involvement as a movie and media critic on radio stations across the Corus Radio Network from BC to Quebec. He also holds an MBA with a major in Strategic Management.

Rick has been married to Betty, a grief counsellor and fitness consultant, since 1967. They have one daughter, and two grandchildren.