David Culver
{{Short description|Canadian businessman (1924–2017)}}
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|birth_name = David Michael Culver
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|birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Former chairman & CEO, Alcan Aluminum Limited
- Founder, CAI Private Equity
- Founder, iLiv Technologies}}
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David Michael Culver, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OQ}} (December 5, 1924 – February 6, 2017) was a Canadian businessman and former chairman and CEO of Alcan Aluminum Limited from 1979 to 1989.
Early life
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Culver attended Selwyn House School[https://www.selwyn.ca/news-detail?pk=1087369 Selwyn House School | Obituary: David Culver '39] and Trinity College School.{{cite web |title=David Culver was a devoted CEO who fought to preserve history |date=2017-02-23 |website=The Globe and Mail |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220205113527/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/david-culver-was-a-devoted-ceo-who-fought-to-preserve-history/article34125652/ |archive-date=2022-02-05 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/david-culver-was-a-devoted-ceo-who-fought-to-preserve-history/article34125652/}} He received a Bachelor of Science from McGill University in 1947, an MBA from Harvard University, and a Certificate from the Centre d'Études Industrielles in Geneva.
He was a first cousin once removed of Conrad Black; his father’s sister was the maternal grandmother of Black.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xoh_AwAAQBAJ&dq=david+culver+conrad+black&pg=PA9 Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life]
Career
Culver began working at Alcan in 1949, eventually rising to CEO in 1979. From 1986 to 1989, he was chairman of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.
In 1989, he became a founding partner of CAI Private Equity, a firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, restructurings, acquisitions, and recapitalizations. He was a co-founder and Canadian chairman for 11 years of the Canada-Japan Business Committee. He was the chairman of iLiv Technologies Inc. (iLiv.com). He was a member of the Augusta National Golf Club.
Culver was the author, with Alan Freeman, of Expect Miracles: Recollections of a Lucky Life (McGIll-Queen's University Press 2014).
In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1988.{{Canadian honour|Type=orc|ID=372|accessdate=26 May 2010}} In 1990, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. He also joined the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Grand Cordon, of Japan.[http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=article&no=8245 L'Harmattan web site (in French)] Additionally, in 1990, he was awarded Concordia University's John Molson School of Business Award of Distinction.
Death
References
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- {{cite web | title=Mr. David M. Culver | work=Canadian Business Hall of Fame | url=http://cbhf.jacan.org/about.cfm?itemid=7149&smocid=1901 | accessdate=April 11, 2005 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- {{cite web | title=National Order of Quebec citation | work=Gouvernement du Québec | url=http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/recherche_details.asp?id=65 | accessdate=April 11, 2005|language=fr}}
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Category:Businesspeople from Winnipeg
Category:Canadian chief executives
Category:Companions of the Order of Canada
Category:Harvard Business School alumni
Category:Officers of the National Order of Quebec
Category:Private equity and venture capital investors
Category:Black family (Canada)
Category:Selwyn House School alumni
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