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GORDON
M. NIXON
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Gordon Nixon is president and chief executive officer of
RBC Financial Group, 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 the Canadian Council of Chief Executives,
and is on the Board of Directors of the Hospital for Sick
Children, International Monetary Conference and MaRS Discovery
District for which he will become Chairman in 2009. He is
also on the Canadian Advisory Boards of DaimlerChrysler, Catalyst
and Queen's University School of Business.
In 2007 Mr. Nixon was invested into the Order of Ontario
and was the recipient of Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year
Award. He has an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's 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, 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.
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