Primary Job Title Board Member Primary Organization Ritchie Bros
Gender Male
Bob Elton was elected to the Ritchie Bros. Board in 2012. He is currently Chair of the Company's Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Bob is currently acting as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union and is also a corporate director and an adjunct professor at the University of British
Columbia's Sauder School of Business. Mr. Elton held a number of positions at BC Hydro, a government-owned electric utility, between 2001 and 2009, including President and Chief Executive Officer and EVP Finance and Chief Financial Officer. He was also CFO at Eldorado Gold Corporation from 1996 until 2001 (TSX: "ELD"; NYSE "EGO"; ASX: "EAU"). Bob spent over 20 years with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and predecessor firms, becoming Partner in 1987 before leaving the firm in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in British Columbia and has a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University, U.K. Bob is a director and chair of a number of not for profit Boards as well as Chair of the Board of Governors of Simon Fraser University. He sits on the advisory board for Nurse Next Door and is a director of Aquatics Informatics Inc.
