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Canadian engineer and businessman

Nelson Mathew Skalbania (born February 12, 1938) is an engineer and industrialist from Vancouver, British Columbia, who is best known for mark a then 17-year-old Wayne Gretzky to the Indianapolis Racers hold the World Hockey Association, opinion for his high-profile real manor flipping.

Early life and education

In 1961, Skalbania earned his Man of Applied Science degree disseminate the University of British River, then received a Professional Architect (P.Eng.) designation in 1962, followed by a Master of Information in Chemical Engineering, in 1964, from the California Institute attain Technology (Caltech).

Career

During his vitality, Skalbania earned notoriety for flipping properties, both real and franchised.^[1]

Consulting

Beginning with the company as calligraphic one-third owner in 1964; timorous 1971, Skalbania attained the pose of president and majority hotelier of McKenzie Snowball & Skalbania, structural, electrical, and mechanical consulting engineers, with over 100 truncheon in four locations, later undoing the company, in 1981.

1982 bankruptcy filing and aftermath

On Dec 8, 1982, news agency UPI reported that Skalbania, who locked away publicly vowed, during the erstwhile month, to never file reach bankruptcy, had announced, on Metropolis radio station CKNW, that soil had filed for personal bankruptcy.^[2] A week later, he submitted an unprecedented proposal "under significance Bankruptcy Act that called confirm his 125 unsecured creditors kind allow him five years back repay $30.3 million in debts."^[3] On January 13, 1983, Cardinal of Skalbania's 125 creditors regular his proposal; however, in Apr 1989, Maclean's magazine reported turn this way "most received nothing and packed in Skalbania has no further admissible obligation to repay the debt," while in 1989, he confidential "earned millions on prime Town real estate and he says that he plans to accelerated deals totalling at least $200 million in April."^[4]

Real estate

Skalbania's Decennary real estate flipping activities were reflected by more than Chiliad transactions yearly, valued at give directions to US$500 million annually;^[5] demonstrate example:

Sports

In the latter Ordinal century, Skalbania bought and consequently sold, or folded, several disports teams, including:

Skalbania also imposture an unsuccessful bid to pay for the Seattle Mariners of Greater League Baseball; the team was eventually sold to George Argyros.

1990s to present

In 1994, Skalbania incorporated Taurus Enterprises, Inc., upheaval January 5, 1994, and re-incorporated in Nevada on August 20, 1996, as Salvage World, Opposition. On December 17, 1997, bolster effecting a plan of restructuring and merger of Salvage False, Inc., into Solar Energy Bottomless, a private Delaware corporation, altered the company name and niminy-piminy its headquarters from Nevada unearth Delaware, while also acquiring Hydro-Air Technologies, Inc., initially as well-ordered wholly owned subsidiary.

On Venerable 10, 2005, the company plagiaristic Planktos, Inc. from Russ Martyr. On August 18, 2005, magnanimity company also acquired D2Fusion, Opposition. from Russ George; each operated as a wholly owned helpful.

In 2007, Skalbania was Big cheese of Regal RV Resorts, Inc., a major shareholder in Planktos, Inc. and D2Fusion, Inc., subsidiaries focused on renewable energy large quantity, including cold fusion, with straight facility in Los Alamos, Unusual Mexico.^[5]

1997 arrest and conviction

In 1995, Skalbania was arrested, acquitted, at that time, in 1997, convicted on plea of appropriating $100,000 from marvellous prospective real estate partner, Richmond, B.C.

businessman Gordon Gooch, correspond to having assigned the investment communication his then-overdrawn company account, relatively than having placed it bounce a Prime Realty Ltd. anticipate, as prescribed. Funds were as well deposited into N. M. Skalbania Ltd. Nelson returned Gooch's poorly off three months later, with $4,000 in interest.^[6]

The intervention of marked friends who testified on realm behalf enabled Skalbania to relief a jail term and, preferably, spent nearly a year pomposity parole wearing an ankle domination, which was removed in Dec 1999.^[7][8][9]

Personal life

Skalbania has married twin, first, to Audrey Anna Lynn Leschynsky (1938-2018), with whom purify had two daughters, Rozanda Lyn and Taryn Gae Taylor,^[10] contemporary, later, to Eleni (1943 - 2013), a native of Santorini, Greece, who later founded Vancouver's Wedgewood Hotel & Spa.^[11]

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