Mr. Poulus is a businessman and a partner in the Vancouver office of the Stikeman Elliott law firm. His background includes: membership in McAlpine Poulus and Hordo a Vancouver law firm (1973 to 1979); senior management positions with Kaiser Resources (1979 to 1980) a publicly traded producer of metallurgical and thermal coal and oil and gas; and with private Kaiser companies (1980 to 1984) whose activities included coal trading oil and gas real estate and professional football. He then served as a senior officer of Southeastern Capital Corporation a Denver-based leveraged buyout group (1984 to 1990) with interests in broadcasting petroleum product distribution and environmental laboratories.
Mr. Poulus was born in Djakarta Indonesia and schooled there and in the Netherlands. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of British Columbia and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. |