John S. Walton, B.Eng.
Mr. Walton is one of Canada’s business leaders. He is Founding Chairman (1989) of Endeavor Financial Corp., Vancouver, a private international investment banking service to the mining industry. He has served as a Director of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto, MacMillan Bloedel Ltd., Vancouver, as well as other corporate boards in Canada, USA, UK and Australia. He has served as CEO and Director of Placer-Dome Inc., having led the amalgamation of the Dome and Placer mining groups. In the non-profit sector, he is Founding President of the Victoria Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation, a Director of the Royal BC Museum, and has served as Chair of the Victoria Commonwealth Games Society for the very successful 1994 Games, Chair of LINC-Uc’s Committee for the Arts, Media and Technology Centre, and an Advisor to Royal Roads University.