Full Name
Nick Arkle
Job Title
RPF, CEO
Organization
The Gorman Group
Speaker Bio
Nick Arkle is the CEO of the Gorman Group, a family-owned and operated forest products company based out of West Kelowna, BC with multiple divisions in the interior of BC and one in Washington State. The company produces primarily specialty products that are sold into over 30 countries worldwide. Prior to this position he had been the Chief Forester of the company. He has related to the company since 1975.
Graduating from the BC Institute of Technology in the Forestry Technician program in 1980 he continued his education graduating from the University of BC in 1984 in the Bachelor of Science in Forestry program. He obtained his Registered Professional Forester status in 1987.
He has represented the forest industry, and its interests, on many regional and provincial initiatives and was the chair of the Council of Forest Industries (COFI) between 2011-2014. He currently sits on the CEO led board for COFI and is a board member for the BC Lumber Trade Council concerning the US-Canada lumber trade dispute.
Nick has been involved over the years as a council member of Forest Professionals British Columbia (then known as the ABCFP), the regulatory body overseeing all forest professionals in British Columbia, and served as President for 1999-2000. He was an appointee director of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce, for over 10 years, representing the forest industry as well as a Co-Chair of the Okanagan Partnership (a broad federal government supported, and industry led organization that worked for the common goals of promoting sustainable growth and strengthening regional competitiveness throughout the Okanagan).
Nick is a retired director of a Kelowna based non-profit organization ‘Hope for the Nations’ through which he has overseen the operations of children homes in the Himalaya since 1990. He and his wife were more recently involved in a project in the Solu Khumbu (Everest region of Nepal) working alongside Nepali (Sherpa) nationals to promote education and learning amongst the women in the area.
He is passionate about the forest industry and all it represents in both the province and globally as well as the need to find the balance between all the various interests for the many values our forests carry.
Graduating from the BC Institute of Technology in the Forestry Technician program in 1980 he continued his education graduating from the University of BC in 1984 in the Bachelor of Science in Forestry program. He obtained his Registered Professional Forester status in 1987.
He has represented the forest industry, and its interests, on many regional and provincial initiatives and was the chair of the Council of Forest Industries (COFI) between 2011-2014. He currently sits on the CEO led board for COFI and is a board member for the BC Lumber Trade Council concerning the US-Canada lumber trade dispute.
Nick has been involved over the years as a council member of Forest Professionals British Columbia (then known as the ABCFP), the regulatory body overseeing all forest professionals in British Columbia, and served as President for 1999-2000. He was an appointee director of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce, for over 10 years, representing the forest industry as well as a Co-Chair of the Okanagan Partnership (a broad federal government supported, and industry led organization that worked for the common goals of promoting sustainable growth and strengthening regional competitiveness throughout the Okanagan).
Nick is a retired director of a Kelowna based non-profit organization ‘Hope for the Nations’ through which he has overseen the operations of children homes in the Himalaya since 1990. He and his wife were more recently involved in a project in the Solu Khumbu (Everest region of Nepal) working alongside Nepali (Sherpa) nationals to promote education and learning amongst the women in the area.
He is passionate about the forest industry and all it represents in both the province and globally as well as the need to find the balance between all the various interests for the many values our forests carry.
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