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Parkinson is a consultant in the securities industry, providing
expertise to securities commissions, brokerage houses, custodians,
transfer agents and mutual fund firms. Andrew has worked
with a financial futures exchange and a merchant bank. He
is also a Director of the Canadian Capital Markets Association
(CCMA), representing the Investment Counsel Association
of Canada. In the past, Mr. Parkinson was the president
and compliance officer of a medium-sized investment management
firm.
Mr. Parkinson is Vice-Chair of the International
Financial Centre (IFC) Vancouver, a lobby group set up to
encourage offshore financial activity to be transacted in
British Columbia. He represented the B.C. Securities Commission
(BCSC) on the G-30 Canadian Working Committee.
Mr. Parkinson is a Fellow of the Canadian
Securities Institute (FCSI), and holds an MBA (Finance)
from City University Business School in London, England
and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Calgary.
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