Biographical Summary

1970

Bachelor of Arts
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii

1973

Master of Business Administration
University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut

2009

Doctor of Technology, “honoris causa”
The BC Institute of Technology
Vancouver, BC

1973 – 1994

Nesbit Thomson

1985 – 1994

Executive Vice President & Director (Vancouver)

Responsible for the firm’s corporate and government finance activities in British Columbia, the Pacific Rim and western United States.

1978 – 1985

Manager, Corporate & Government Finance (Calgary)

Organized and built the firm’s first investment banking operation in Alberta. Grew the operation into one of the largest in the province and one of the most profitable centres of the company. Responsible for all underwriting activities, mergers and acquisitions, valuations and fairness opinions and private placements.

1978 – 1985

Manager, Corporate & Government Finance, Western Canada (Vancouver)

Built the firm’s first investment banking operation in British Columbia. Responsible for the firm’s corporate and government finance activities in western Canada, including underwriting activities, mergers and acquisitions advice, valuations and fairness opinions and private placement.

1973 – 1978

Senior Research Analyst (Montreal)

Responsible for coverage of Canadian Pacific Limited, Canadian chartered banks, Imasco Ltd, the Canadian cable television industry and Reed Shaw. Chosen by the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration to do a study on Canadian Pacific (1974).

1962 – 1966

United States Marine Corps

Current:

Chair of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation

Honorary Chair of the Britannia Development Corporation Fundraising Committee

Advisory Committee Member for the Investment Industry Association of Canada

Former:

Panel Member on the Government of Canada’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulations

Director of The Arthritis Society BC & Yukon Division

Director of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation

Chair of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada

Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for the Stem Cell Network

Director of the Playhouse Theatre Company

Director of Southam Inc.

Governor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange

Chair of St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation

Trustee of St. Paul’s Hospital

Member of the Financial Advisory Board, XI Conference on AIDS

Director of the International Financial Centre, Vancouver