Bob Elton

Bob Elton was elected to the Ritchie Bros. Board in 2012. He is currently Chair of the Company's Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Bob is currently a corporate director and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. Mr. Elton held executive roles at Vancouver City Savings Credit Union from 2013 to 2017 including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer. Between 2001 and 2009, Mr. Elton held a number of positions at BC Hydro, a government-owned electric utility, including President and Chief Executive Officer and EVP Finance and Chief Financial Officer. He was also CFO at Eldorado Gold Corporation from 1996 until 2001 (TSX: "ELD"; NYSE "EGO"; ASX: "EAU"). Bob spent over 20 years with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and predecessor firms, becoming Partner in 1987 before leaving the firm in 1996. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in British Columbia and has a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University, U.K. Bob is a director and chair of a number of not for profit Boards as well as Director and Chair of the Audit Committee for Corix Utilities, a private infrastructure company.