Nelson Mathew Skalbania
February 12, 1938 - present
During the late 1970's, Nelson Skalbania mainly sought challenges, while at the same time trying to pay for his education by chasing oil money, gas money, real estate money, mortgage money. He chased things that money could buy - apartments, hotels, shopping centers, the odd diamond ring or Rolls-Royce, paintings, and, of course, his first love, the sporting teams he gawked at as a boy.
In general, he was not afraid to tackle any size deal, in any part of the world , in any kind of business - so long as it was legal. He was active in energy and mining in South Sudan and South America, banking in South Africa, and real estate in one hundred US and Canadian cities, while most of the time, managing a consulting and engineering company (McKenzie, Snowball and Skalbania). Although Skalbania's specialty was seismic structural engineering, the firm had three disciplines: structural, mechanical and electrical engineering.
