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BlackRock Appoints Former RBC President To Board
Eliane Chavagnon
31 July 2015
BlackRock has elected Gordon Nixon, former president, chief executive and director of Royal Bank of Canada, to its board of directors. Nixon, who retired from RBC in August 2014 , will join the board on October 6 as an independent director. He started his career in 1979 when he joined Toronto-based Dominion Securities. In 1986 was promoted to run Dominion’s Japanese operations and when Dominion was acquired by RBC he then returned to Toronto. In 1999 he was promoted to CEO of RBC Capital Markets – a position he held until his 2001 appointment as president and CEO of RBC.