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Atlantica 2007 - Charting the Course

James Frost
Executive Director, Halifax Gateway Council

James Frost

James (Jim) Frost is Executive Director of the Halifax Gateway Council. He started his career as Director of Marketing with the Halifax-Dartmouth Port Development Commission. He left there to become Vice President of UM Shipping, a short sea shipping service that operated between Halifax and Boston. He was also Marketing Manager for Marine Atlantic, a large Crown-owned ferry service that operated throughout Atlantic Canada. While there, he developed a new cruise product, "Cruising Labrador", using the company's under-utilized capacity.

Since 1995, Jim has owned and operated MariNova Consulting Ltd., which specializes in multi-modal transportation studies.

Jim has a BA from McGill, an MA from Queen's and an MBA from Saint Mary's University (SMU). He teaches history part-time at SMU and is the author of a recently published book, Merchant Princes: Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel.

You can learn more about the Halifax Gateway Council at www.halifaxgateway.com.
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