In 30 years, he's ascended to the uppermost stratum of world business.
As a youth, Tom Albanese fled a small industrial New Jersey town for Alaska. Albanese, now 50, is the first American CEO of the venerable London-based mining giant Rio Tinto PLC, which last year took over Alcan Inc. in a $38-billion deal. He went to university in Fairbanks, Alaska, for degrees in mineral economics and mining engineering.
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Mason, a stocky 60-year-old, earned both fame and infamy in B.C. in the ’90s when Clearly Canadian Beverage Corp., the hometown alt-beverage champion he founded and led, took shareholders for a few gut-wrenching falls in the market.
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BCBusiness blogroll features this month business bloggers that share their good wishes, good news, announcements, trends and opportunities they have spotted for B.C. business for this new year. Do you agree with them? If you do or you don't, write down your comments and be an active member of the blogosphere!
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Last June, Frank Giustra made an astonishing public announcement: he was donating $100 million and half of his future mining earnings to a radical global initiative to battle poverty. The event ushered in a new era of giving in B.C., one that thrives on publicity and competition. In other words, it’s all about business. Only this time it’s all about who gives, not gets, the most.
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Wanted: mining engineers and rig workers for oil exploration in developing country ravaged by tribal militias. Must be calm under pressure
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The contribution of B.C.’s top miners to the province’s economy jumped $4.2 billion in one year.
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Online medical consultations, direct ferries to Seattle, technology vying with forestry for top spot among the province’s employers… Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but when we asked experts to gaze into their crystal balls, this is the scenario they envision for B.C. just four years from now.
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