A conversation with Canada's CFO of the Year/Agnico-Eagle's David Garofalo shares his thoughts on a range of topics including working with investors, controlling costs and predicting commodity trends

摘要

In spite of constrained capital availability and risk-averse attitudes, some mining companies, and some people, are keeping busier than others. Perhaps one of the busiest is David Garofalo, senior vice-president, finance and CFO of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited. Garofalo has been helping Agnico-Eagle steer through choppy economic waters towards ambitious expansion objectives. He was recently named Canada's CFO of the Year, an award presented annually by Financial Executives International (FEI) Canada, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and The Caldwell Partners International. Given the broad award criteria — vision and leadership, corporate reporting and performance, social responsibility, innovation and business complexity — Garofalo has certainly accomplished quite the balancing act. During an investor and analyst site visit of the Kittila mine in Finland in June, David shared some thoughts with CIM Magazine.