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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, 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 chairman of MaRS, a not-for-profit organization that connects
science, business and capital. He is on the Board of Directors
of The Hospital for Sick Children, The International Monetary
Conference and is also on the Advisory Board of Mercedes-Benz
Canada, Catalyst and Queen's University School of Business.
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.
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 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.
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