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Antarctic scallop at McMurdoSound

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John Risley, OC (born 1948) is a Canadian businessman with major financial interests in fisheries, foodsupplements, and communications.

Contents

1 Early life and career2 Major holdings

2.1 Clearwater Fine Foods2.2 Ocean Nutrition Canada2.3 Columbus Communications

3 Personal life4 References

Early life and career

He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of an insurance broker. He never attended university, insteadchoosing a career in real estate. By 1976 he was struggling through a housing slump and with his brother-in-law, Colin MacDonald he took a gamble in opening a lobster business in Bedford, Nova Scotia.[1]

Major holdings

Clearwater Fine Foods

Within ten years of its founding in 1976, Clearwater had grown intoone the of the largest international food fish businesses by specializingin high return products including scallops, lobster, clams, coldwatershrimp and crab, which it air-freights around the world. It is the largestholder of rights in Canada for each of these shellfish species and by2008, it owned the rights to all offshore lobster fished in offshoreAtlantic Canadian waters and all Arctic surf clams.[2] By 2008, the fleetincluded ten factory freezers (the largest such fleet in Canada) and theentire international fleet totalled 21 vessels.[2] Its Argentinian fleetfishes Antarctic scallop.[3]

The business became an income trust in 2002 at which time Risleyturned the business over to Colin MacDonald.[1][4] The trust had not paid dividends since 2005 and inAugust 2008 the company went private[1][5] and was nearly ruined by the stock market failure later that



year.[6]

Ocean Nutrition Canada

His company is the major shareholder in Ocean Nutrition Canada, which he founded in 1997 as amanufacturer of fish oil-derived dietary supplements.[7] Headquartered and with R&D offices in Dartmouth,Nova Scotia, it has manufacturing facilities in Mulgrave, Nova Scotia, Arcadia, Wisconsin, and in Peru. Itis the world's largest producer of omega-3 fatty acids.[1]

In 2010 the company announced the accidental discovery of ONC T18 B, the most prolific strain of oil-producing algae known, which appears capable of producing oil at a rate 60 times greater than other typesof algae being used for the generation of biofuels.[8] It has embarked on a four-year R&D program todetermine whether the algae is a viable a fossil fuel replacement.

Columbus Communications

Risley is a shareholder in Columbus Communications, a Caribbean cable television and Internet providerwhich he co-founded in 2004. He entered the business with Brendan Paddick from Grand Falls,Newfoundland. He is a board member of the company which is based in Freeport, Bahamas.[9]

Personal life

His wife is the former Judy MacDonald of Halifax. They have a son and a daughter. His brother is theHalifax restaurateur, caterer and hotelier Robert Risley.[10] The Risley home overlooks the Atlantic Oceanon a 91-acre property formerly owned by Joseph N. Pew, Jr., founder of Sunoco. After purchasing theproperty, Risley added another 210 acres to the estate. Besides a mansion, he has a barn with cowspurchased from the Rockefeller family and his horses include Dutch Warmbloods, which he shows.[1]

Risley was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1998.[11]

References

1. ^ a b c d e "The Northern Rockefeller" (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/article839318.ece),Globe and Mail, August 24, 2006 (updated on April 6, 2009)

2. ^ a b "Clearwater Seafoods Income Fund Annual Information Form"(http://www.clearwater.ca/site/media/Parent/AIF2008.pdf), March 2008

3. ^ Antarctic Scallop Recipe (http://www.clearwater.ca/storefrontusa/Recipe.aspx?recipeid=26)4. ^ "Nothing's fishy about this captain riding out his sinking ship"

(https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20050908/RDECLOET08), Globe and Mail,5. ^ "Clearwater Seafoods going private" (http://www.thetelegram.com/Business/Retail-%26amp%3B-

services/2008-08-15/article-1440275/Clearwater-Seafoods-going-private/1), Canadian Press, August 15, 20086. ^ "The Rich 100" (http://list.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/rich100/2009/displayProfile.aspx?profile=69),

Canadian Business magazine.



7. ^ Ocean Nutrition Canada, About (http://www.ocean-nutrition.com/about)8. ^ Hillary Brenhouse (2010-09-29). "Canada Produces Strain of Algae for Fuel"

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/business/energy-environment/30iht-renalg.html?src=busln). The New YorkTimes.

9. ^ Columbus Communications, Governance (http://www.columbuscommunications.com/home.html)10. ^ Robert Risley profile (http://www.rcr.ca/catering/about/staff.php#Robert-Risley)11. ^ Governor General's profile (http://www.gg.ca/honours/pdf/OCnewsFall2008_e.pdf)

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