Andrea Mains (P.Eng., MBA) is a Senior Consultant and Director of Compliance at North Star Consultants. She has more than 20 years of experience in wealth management, operations and compliance leadership, and she brings a data- and controls-driven approach to compliance testing.

Before joining North Star, Andrea spent over two decades at RBC. Most recently she was Director, Compliance Operations and Risk Analytics for RBC's mutual fund dealer (RMFI). There she ran the second-line-of-defence Monitoring and Testing program, assessing the effectiveness of the controls, identifying gaps and providing independent challenge to the business. She also led the Trade Surveillance team, where she used data analytics to make trade review much more efficient and worked closely with regulators and business partners.

Her earlier roles at RBC Wealth Management included leading fee-billing operations for 600,000 fee-based accounts, plus strategy, planning and business-initiative roles across RBC PH&N Investment Counsel, RBC Direct Investing and RBC Asset Management.

Andrea holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management and a BASc in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She is a Registered Professional Engineer of Ontario.