About Our Team:
P. Kim Sturgess, P.Eng., FCAE, ICD.D
Kim Sturgess is CEO and founder of Alberta WaterSMART, a not-for-profit organization committed to developing and improving the management of Alberta's water resources. Kim is also President of Guigne Advanced Materials Ltd., a company that she co-founded in 2002, which develops wear resistant industrial products. From 2003 to 2005, Kim was President and CEO of Pan Terra Industries Inc., a publicly traded Calgary construction services company.
Kim was President and CEO of Revolve Magnetic Bearings Inc. until 2001. This company produces magnetic bearing products for high-speed industrial rotating equipment and was sold to SKF of Sweden in 2000. She was President and CEO of the precursor company Revolve Technologies Inc., which additionally produced dry gas seal products and services into the same markets. Kim led the spin out of Revolve from NOVA Corporation in 1992. Prior to founding Revolve, Kim was the Manager of the seal and bearing group at NOVA.
Previously, Kim was a Vice President at Greyhound Lines of Canada. Upon completion of her M.B.A. in 1984, she spent four years at McKinsey and Company as a management consultant focussing on technology, energy and transportation projects. She began her career in 1977 at the National Energy Board as a gas pipelines engineer, and then spent five years at Esso Resources Canada Ltd. as a reservoir engineer and business analyst.
Kim has thirty years of experience serving on the boards of directors of a number of corporate and not-for-profit organizations all across Canada. She currently serves on the board of CCI Thermal Technologies Inc. in Edmonton, the Calgary Airport Authority in Calgary, Guigne Advanced Materials Ltd. in St. Johns, the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company in Toronto, and Alberta WaterSMART in Calgary. She also serves on the boards of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Kim is also the Chair of the Calgary Chapter of the International Women's Forum.
Previously, Kim served on the boards of her employer companies, including Pan Terra Industries, and the Revolve companies. She has also served on the boards of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, the Alberta Water Council, Alberta Economic Development Authority, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, National Research Council, the Trustees of Queen's University, Queen's Centre for Enterprise Development, Calgary Science Centre, and the Queen's University Book Store. On these boards, she served in a number of leadership roles, including Board Chair, Executive Committee member, Finance Committee Chair, and Treasurer.
Kim is a life member of the Queens University Council, and has served as a member of the Young Presidents Organization, the World Presidents Organization, the International Womens Forum, the Chairman's Circle of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, the Advisory Board for the Institute for Aerospace Research, and the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation.
Kim was honoured with both the Distinguished Service Award and Alumni Achievement Award from Queen's University, the YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Science and Technology, and the Alberta Centennial Medal. In 2007 she was named as one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and a Calgary Woman of Vision. She is a registered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Kim graduated from Queens University with a BSc. in Engineering Physics, from the University of Western Ontario with an M.B.A. with Distinction, and from ICD Corporate Governance College Directors Education Program.
Phone: 403-210-5276
Cell: 403-813-6182
Email: kim@albertawatersmart.com
Our Management Team
• P. Kim Sturgess (CEO)
• Chris Godwaldt
• Song Ha
• Mike Kelly
• Gary Reavie
• Mike Scarth