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Brett Huneycutt

Brett Huneycutt

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Wealthsimple

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Brett Huneycutt is co-founder and chief product officer of Wealthsimple, the Toronto money platform he started in 2014 with Michael Katchen and Rudy Adler. Before that he co-founded 1000memories, which Ancestry.com acquired in 2012, according to his Inovia profile, and began his career at McKinsey & Company. He studied economics at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Brett hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Brett co-founded Wealthsimple, which appears in 2 talks in the archive.

Around the web ×3

Podcast
Speed and Quality are Complementary, with Wealthsimple Co-Founder Brett HuneycuttIt Shipped That Way
2026
Interview
Wealthsimple's Brett Huneycutt explains how its new products advance the company's financial services visionBetaKit
2025
Podcast
Canada's FinTech Darling | Wealthsimple co-founder Brett HuneycuttInspiring Entrepreneurs Canada
2024

Quick answers

Is Brett Huneycutt still at Wealthsimple?

Yes. Wealthsimple's about page, checked September 2026, lists him as Chief Product Officer and describes him as co-founder and CPO.

Who co-founded Wealthsimple with Brett Huneycutt?

BetaKit reported on 2023-04-18 that Rudy Adler co-founded Wealthsimple with Michael Katchen and Brett Huneycutt in 2014.

What did Brett Huneycutt do before Wealthsimple?

His profile on investor Inovia's site, checked September 2026, says he co-founded 1000memories, acquired by Ancestry.com in 2012, and began his career as a McKinsey & Company consultant in New York and Mexico City.

What has Brett Huneycutt said about Wealthsimple's strategy?

In a BetaKit interview published 2025-06-12, he described the goal of becoming the one-stop shop for financial services for Canadians, and said not every individual product needs to be hugely profitable.

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