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GORDON M. NIXON, C.M., O.Ont.
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Gordon Nixon is president and chief executive officer of
RBC, the brand name for Royal Bank of Canada and its subsidiaries.
He is also a director of Royal Bank of Canada and chairman
of RBC's Group Executive.
Mr. Nixon began his career in 1979 at Dominion Securities
in Toronto where he worked in Global Markets and subsequently
the Investment Banking division. In 1986, he transferred to
Tokyo to assume responsibility for the firm's operations in
Japan. Dominion Securities was acquired by Royal Bank of Canada
in 1987 and Mr. Nixon returned to Toronto in 1989 as a managing
director of Investment Banking. In 1995, Mr. Nixon was appointed
head of Global Investment Banking and in 1999 became chief
executive officer of RBC Capital Markets and a member of Royal
Bank's Executive Committee. He was appointed president of
Royal Bank of Canada on April 1, 2001 and chief executive
officer on August 1, 2001.
Mr. Nixon is chairman of MaRS, a not-for-profit organization
that connects science, business and capital and co-chairs
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council. He is a director
and past chairman of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives
and is on the Board of Directors of The International Monetary
Conference. Mr. Nixon has served as a director of a number
of organizations in the arts, health care and education and
has chaired numerous events and fundraising campaigns including
the United Way of Greater Toronto and is currently chairing
the Queen's University Capital Campaign.
Mr. Nixon has been awarded the Order of Canada and the Order
of Ontario. He is a recipient of Canada's Outstanding CEO
of the Year Award, the Canadian Business Leader Award, is
included in Barron's list of the World's Best CEO's, and is
an Honouree of the Public Policy Forum. He has an Honorary
Doctor of Laws from both Queen's University and Dalhousie
University and is a recipient of the CIJA/UJA Words and Deeds
Leadership Award, the Rotary Foundation's Paul Harris Fellowship,
a Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, a Learning Partnership Champion
of Public Education Tribute and an American Banker Innovator
of the Year Award. Born in Montreal in 1957, Mr. Nixon attended
Queen's University where he received an Honours Bachelor of
Commerce degree. He and his wife live in Toronto and have
three children.
November 2011
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