Diamond Estates Board Member Mr. Keith R. Harris
Mr. Harris is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the investment banking business. He is a corporate director and consultant. He is a director of Pillarfour Capital, a private investment bank boutique with offices in Calgary and London, England.
Previously, he was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., the Canadian broker-dealer subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp., a financial holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Harris was previously a director and the audit committee chair of Maudore Minerals Ltd. (Exchange: MAO).
In 2002, he was a co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of a Canadian investment bank boutique, Westwind Partners Inc., which was sold to Thomas Weisel Partners Group (“TWPG”) in 2008. TWPG was bought by Stifel in 2010.
Mr. Harris received a B. Comm. from the University of Toronto in 1975 and received his Chartered Accountant designation in 1977 with Ernst & Young.