Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> August 9, 2004
DOUG WHITEHEAD was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of
Finning International Inc. in April 2000. He joined Finning
International in January 1999 as President and Chief Operating Officer.
He was elected to the company's Board of Directors on April 23, 1999.
Prior to joining Finning, he was President and Chief Executive Officer
of Fletcher Challenge Canada from 1992 to 1998; Senior Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer from 1990 to 1992; and Vice President of
Fletcher Challenge Canada's Crown Packaging division from 1988 to 1990.
He was a Director of Fletcher Challenge Canada from April 1991 to
December 1998. Mr. Whitehead is a Director of Ballard Power Systems
Inc., Terasen Inc., Belkorp Industries and The Conference Board of
Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, a
member of the Board of Governors for the Business Council of British
Columbia, a member of the B.C. Progress Board and a member of the Board
of Governors of The University of British Columbia. He is Past Chairman
of the Board of Finlay Forest Industries Ltd. and TimberWest Forest Ltd.
Mr. Whitehead holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Civil
Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from the
University of Western Ontario. Mr. Whitehead is active in fundraising
initiatives for the United Way and was General Campaign co-Chair of the
United Way of the Lower Mainland in 1997. Profile
Mr. Whitehead: Finning is exclusively a Caterpillar dealer, and is the
largest Caterpillar dealer in the world. We have 11,000 employees in
South
