NOV 2014
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business elite canada 87
By Cheryl Long
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What does it take to become one of Western
Canada’s fastest-growing engineering and con-
sulting companies? If your name is Ecora, it’s
a matter of combining highly talented people
with a strong passion for natural resources, and
the rest falls into place.
The British Columbia-based company special-
izes in civil and structural engineering, natu-
ral resource and environmental consulting,
and community and land use planning. Ecora
is still relatively young, launched by four se-
nior natural resource consultants in 2010 who
chose to join forces after leaving the company
they worked for when it restructured. One of
those four is Kelly Sherman, Ecora’s President
and CEO, and a senior resource analyst and car-
bon specialist. Sherman spoke to Business Elite
Canada about Ecora’s success and plans for the
company’s future.
“Our strength is low overhead and we’ve got
a very talented team, so it’s really surround-
ing ourselves with really good people,” he ex-
plained. “On our natural resource side, we
worked for a company that had 250 people and
we were able to pick an all-star team to start
