Gordon M. Nixon

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. Nixon attended Queen's University where he received an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree, and he has an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen’s University.

  • President and Chief Executive Officer: RBC Financial Group
  • Former managing director of investment banking: RBC
  • Former head of global investment banking: RBC
  • Former Chief Executive officer of capital markets: RBC
  • Chairman: Canadian Council of Chief Executives
  • Director: Hospital for Sick Children, International Monetary Conference
  • Board member: Canadian Advisory Boards of DaimlerChrysler, Catalyst and Queen’s University School of Business
  • Member: the Order of Ontario
  • Recipient: Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year Award
  • Recipient: 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.
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