Biography Gwyn Morgan
Gwyn Morgan has been appointed to the Board as an independent non-executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc with effect from 1 October 2006.
Mr Morgan was Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of EnCana Corporation. In January 2006, he retired as Chief Executive Officer to assume the post of Vice-Chairman. He is a Director of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., and Alcan Inc. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Fraser Institute and the Energy Advisory Board of Accenture Limited. He is a former independent non-executive Director of HSBC Bank Canada.
He joined EnCana Corporation's predecessor Alberta Energy Company Limited (AEC) in 1975. He was responsible for drilling the wells which resulted in AEC's first production and was head of the Oil and Gas Division until his appointment as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director in 1994. In 2002, he led the merger of two of Canada's largest oil and gas firms to create EnCana Corporation.
Mr Morgan is a petroleum engineering graduate of the University of Alberta. He has post graduate qualifications including the executive business programme of Cornell University in New York State. He is a Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2005, he was recognised as Canada's chief executive officer of the year* and was also voted Canada's most respected chief executive officer**.
He is married and has one daughter. In his spare time he enjoys cross-training, cycling, kayaking and ski-ing.
Footnotes:
* Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year award programme, founded by The Caldwell Partners.
** The 11th Annual Canada's Most Respected Corporations Survey sponsored by KPMG and conducted by Ipsos Reid.
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