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Mr. Nicholson has held top-level management positions at a number of prominent public and private companies, in a variety of industries including construction, engineering, ship building, and energy development. Recent activities involve management consulting activities such as interim corporate executive, independent director, project financing, strategic planning, business development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate turnarounds, and corporate governance. These activities have involved operations in over 35 countries, including China.
Mr. Nicholson's experiences as a senior executive have been extraordinarily diverse, and have included, the following assignments: Pan Pacific Aggregates PLC, Chairman and CEO; Yarrows Limited, President and CEO, implemented a program for the restructuring and modernizing of the company's industrial fabrication, shipbuilding and repair operations; Wright Engineers Ltd., Executive Vice-President and COO, responsible for all engineering, operations, project & construction management, and financing services provided for mining projects world-wide; Commonwealth Construction Ltd., Senior VP, directed marketing and sales activities of the construction group for Canada and overseas primarily for mining, pulp and paper, petroleum, and transportation industries; Comstock International Ltd., President and CEO, directed sales and operations of a construction group with operation centers across Canada, having annual revenues in excess of $200 million, serving the iron and steel, power, petrochemical, mining, and pulp and paper industries; SNC Group, Vice President, directed the activities of the engineering group responsible for design and quality criteria for the engineering, procurement and construction of the $14 billion Cold Lake Heavy Oil Project; and, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., Vice President, directed preparation of the legal, commercial, technical, and financial aspects of proposals for the design and construction of Candu nuclear power stations and related facilities including uranium mining and processing.
Mr. Nicholson provides a diverse range of experience, and particular expertise in the corporate governance of US and Canadian companies. Mr. Nicholson is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of BC, and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Institute of Corporate Directors. | 