Ex Officio
Mr. Restoule is a Team Leader at NOVA Chemicals Corporation and is responsible for Risk Management activities in NOVA Chemicals’ styrenics and international business. NOVA Chemicals’ Risk Management group contributes to the long-term financial success of the business by providing proactive risk analysis; motivating and assisting in cost-effective loss prevention; and providing long-term, stable risk financing. The risk financing program includes the use of alternative risk financing programs through the use of insurance, captive and other financial products.
Joe has been associated with NOVA’s Risk Management group for the past 20 years. Previous experience includes responsibility for Risk Management activities in NOVA’s previously owned Gas Transmission and International business actively involved in mergers and acquisitions.
Joe is currently President of RIMS. He has served with the Board since 2001 in various capacities. Formerly, he was the Chair of the Canadian Risk Management Council of RIMS (1997-2000). In addition, he has served in the past on the International, Membership & Chapter Services Committee, and the Strategic Planning Task Force.
Joe is President of the William H. McGannon Foundation for Advanced Risk Management (a Canadian foundation for the advancement of Risk Management). At the local chapter (SARIMS) he has been active on the Board since 1992. He is a member of the founding Board of Governors of the Institute of Risk Management and often lectures at the University of Calgary, Insurance & Risk Management faculty. In 2004, Joe was the recipient of the Don Stuart award, Canada's highest recognition for risk managers in Canada. Recently he co-chaired the Canadian RIMS Canada Conference in September 2006. In 2008, he served as a member of the Spencer Educational Foundation Board.
Joe is currently a member of the AEGIS International Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former Chair (1997-1998) of the American Gas Association Risk Management Committee.
Educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology from the University of Alberta (1979).