Norm is the former Sr. Vice President, Potash Operations for The Mosaic Company. While at Mosaic, he had overall responsibility for the Potash Business Unit’s (PBU) six mining operations in Canada and the USA. Under Norm’s leadership, the PBU launched a $6.0 billion expansion campaign to add in excess of 5 million tonnes of production capacity in the Saskatchewan operations.
Norm has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan. In addition to sitting on SRC’s board, he is currently Chair of the Tourism Saskatchewan Board. He is a former board member of SaskEnergy and Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan (TSask) and the former Chairperson of the Canadian Fertilizer Institute. Norm is Past President of the Saskatchewan Mining Association, Past Chair of the Saskatchewan Potash Producers Association, and was a board member for the Regina Symphony Orchestra and the Hospitals of Regina Foundation. He is the past honorary chair of the Saskatchewan Roughriders Centennial Advisory Committee.
Norm holds the Public Sector Governance Certification from the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in 2018, and completed the Harvard Business School Agribusiness Seminar in 2008
In 2022 Norm was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (Saskatchewan) and in 2005, Norm was honoured with a Centennial Medal from the Government of Saskatchewan. In 2002, he was named one of the ten most influential businessmen in Saskatchewan by the Saskatchewan Business Magazine.
