Gordon M. "Gord" Nixon, Master in Surgery, O.Ont was the President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Royal Bank of Canada, from 2001 to 2014.
Education
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Lower Canada College. Mr. Nixon received an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen"s University in 1979, and holds Honourary Doctor of Laws from both Queen"s University and Dalhousie University.
Career
Mr. Nixon began his career in 1979 at Dominion Securities in Toronto and worked in global markets, investment banking and in 1986 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 the Investment Banking Division and in 1995 was appointed head of Global Investment Banking.
Mr.
Nixon was appointed president of Royal Bank of Canada on April 1, 2001 and chief executive officer on August 1, 2001. After 13 years as chief executive officer, Mr. Nixon retired on August 1, 2014.
Mr.
Nixon is a director of George Weston Limited, Bell Canada Enterprises, BlackRock Incorporated. and he is on the board of KingSett Capital
Mr. Nixon is chairman of MaRS, a not-for-profit organization that connects science, business and capital, chairman of the Queen"s University Capital Campaign and is a director of the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is past chairman of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the Premier"s Jobs and Prosperity Council and has served as a director of a number of organizations in the arts, health care and education.
Membership
In 1999, Mr. Nixon became chief executive officer of Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets and a member of Royal Bank"s Executive Committee.