Surrey chartered accountant Nolan Allan Watson, CPA, FCA, has been honoured with a fellowship by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia (ICABC).
The fellowship (FCA) designation is awarded to chartered accountants for their contributions to the community and service to the profession.
Watson, CPA, FCA is the president and CEO of both Sandstorm Gold, an NYSE-listed company with a market valuation of over $500 million, and Sandstorm Metals and Energy.
Watson earned B.C.’s gold medal on the 2002 UFE and became a CA the following year. In 2005, after working in corporate finance with Deloitte Vancouver, he left public practice to join Silver Wheaton Corp. as a controller. Watson was promoted to CFO within a year, and subsequently became the youngest CFO of an NYSE-listed company in history. In 2008, he founded Sandstorm Gold.
In 2004, he founded Nations Cry, an international humanitarian organization that builds schools and provides education for children in Sierra Leone. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2014, a community of next-generation leaders aiming to make the world a better place.
Watson has received numerous accolades to date, including an ICABC Early Achievement Award, a BC CEO of the Year Award from Business in Vancouver, and the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal.
He was named to the Casey List as one of the “Top Ten Rising Stars in the National Resource Sector” in 2008 and was featured on the Globe and Mail’s Top 40 Under 40 list in 2011.
