Notice Board

Architecture & Design NOW Series: Ian MacGregor
6 pm, January 28, 2019
Room L1060, LINC Building
Free admission, everyone welcome!

Ian MacGregor is an Alberta entrepreneur.  He thrives on founding and developing technically complex commercial opportunities that permit growth to world scale.  Ian doesn’t measure success by business achievements, but against the simple principles his father and mother taught him: Build something cool, have fun doing it, try to be kind, and leave the place better than when you found it.

Over the years, Ian has been involved in numerous business ventures. The one he is most recognized for is North West Refining, where he serves as Founder, CEO and Chairman. North West Refining is the 50% owner of the Sturgeon Refinery.  What started as an idea written on a napkin in 2004, has transpired the first refinery to be built in Canada since 1984 and the first refinery in the world designed from the outset to capture CO2 emissions.

Ian is also the Founder and Chairman of Enhance Energy Inc., the company building the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) project.   Enhance specializes in using captured industrial CO2 for enhanced oil recovery and storage in Alberta.

Ian has also founded several other companies including: North West Capital Partners, a private investment company; Carraig Ridge Inc., a development hub of contemporary architecture, set in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains; Ambyint, the first artificial intelligence-driven optimization for oilfield artificial lifts; and Shackleton Exploration, an Alberta resource development company.

A keen collector of African metal work, industrial revolution machinery and early oilfield equipment, Ian also founded the Canadian Museum of Making, a not-for profit private museum which gathers items from all over the world that live in the intersection between engineering and art.

To quote Bertrand Russell, “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

Image courtesy of artist.