Executive Team

| Guy Nelson

Chief Executive Officer and President – Empire Industries Ltd.

B.Comm., University of Alberta (1977); MBA, University of Western Ontario (1979)

Career Highlights

  • CEO and largest shareholder of Empire Industries Ltd.; successfully capitalized and restructured privately controlled industrial fabrication and construction companies into a well capitalized, public company called Empire Industries Ltd.
  • Former Vice President and Director of a public company; responsible for strategy, corporate development and acquisitions, helped grow a public company from $5 million in market value to $150 million over eight years. When Guy resigned, the company had become the largest multi-trade construction company in Canada
  • Former Vice President of Investments of a venture capital company called Cavendish Investing Ltd.

 

| Allan Francis

VP - Corporate Affairs and Administration

LLB, University of Manitoba (1986), MBA, Ivey School of Business in London, ON (1991)

Career Highlights

  • Allan provides services to all the Empire subsidiary companies, particularly in the general areas of risk management, commercial management, acquisition due diligence and corporate governance.
  • Prior to joining Empire, Allan spent ten years in the steel fabrication business with Dominion Bridge and Canron in Toronto where he provided his expertise in all of the above areas.
     
| Campbell McIntyre

Chief Financial Officer - Empire Industries Ltd.

President - Empire Iron Works Ltd.

Chartered Accountant - Institute of Manitoba Chartered Accountants (1973)

Career Highlights:

  •  Campbell joined Empire Iron Works in 1976 as a partner. Over the next 30 years at Empire Iron, Campbell’s responsibilities have grown from the CFO to the President of Empire Iron
  • Campbell has been instrumental in introducing job costing and financial systems and audit controls to all the company's branches.
  • He has developed and successfully implemented a low cost, highly effective corporate administrative function
  • Campbell has been the leading financial expert in the company, ensuring Empire Iron’s geographic and sectoral expansion from one profit centre to six was done profitably and prudently