Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> November 26, 2003
BRIAN FERGUSON is Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at
EnCana Corporation. He has executive responsibility for investor
relations, corporate strategic planning, acquisitions and divestitures,
corporate reserve assessment, and legal and corporate secretarial. He
earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree, with distinction, from the
University of Alberta in 1980. In addition, he completed the University
of Western Ontario's Executive Management program in 1993. Mr.
Ferguson's professional activities since 1984 have included various
positions in the finance, communications and corporate secretarial areas
and senior management positions at EnCana and Alberta Energy Company
Ltd., a predecessor company of EnCana. From 1980-1984, he was employed
at a national accounting firm where he worked in the audit, small
business and insolvency departments. Some of Mr. Ferguson's key
accomplishments include: strategic involvement in the merger of Alberta
Energy Company and PanCanadian Energy Corporation; expansion of EnCana
and predecessors shareholder base into the US; and key asset
acquisitions and divestitures in Canada and the US. He is a member of
the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and is serving a three-
year term as a member of the CICA Innovation Council. Profile
Corporation, and a picture of what you are doing at the present time?
Mr. Ferguson: EnCana was created in April of 2002 as the
