Marvin Romanow (left), accepts Canada’s Chief Financial Officer of the Year award from Isabel Meharry, President and CEO of Financial Executives International Canada (centre) and Chris Clark, CEO and Canadian Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (right).

Marvin Romanow, Nexen’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) accepted Canada’s Chief Financial Officer of the Year for 2007 at an awards ceremony in Toronto on April 18.

Mr. Romanow is the first CFO from a Western-based company to receive the award, as well as the first executive from the oil and gas sector to receive it. The award, given by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Financial Executives International (FEI) Canada, and Caldwell Partners International since 2003, is awarded to a CFO who makes a significant business contribution over the year through vision and leadership, corporate reporting and performance, social responsibility, innovation and business complexity.

Mr. Romanow, CFO for Nexen since 1998, attributed his success to his colleagues at Nexen in a recent interview with The Globe and Mail.

“It's always nice when you get recognized by your peers,” says Mr. Romanow. “But nothing happens in companies by individuals alone. It’s groups of people that make things happen and this award is recognition for Nexen and the people that I work with.”

Past recipients of the award are Karen Maidment from BMO Financial Group, Claude Mongeau from Canadian National Railway Company, Peter Rubenovitch from Manulife Financial Group and Peter Currie who held positions as CFO at Nortel Networks and RBC Financial Group.

For more information about the CFO of the Year award, click here.

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