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title: Meet Dean Smurthwaite
description: <p>13 Questions for Dean</p>
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# [Meet Dean Smurthwaite](https://blog.cdnrg.com/blog/meet-dean-smurthwaite)

 Written by [Jayme Sauer](https://blog.cdnrg.com/blog/author/jayme-sauer) | Dec 5, 2018 12:00:00 AM

**1. How long have you been with our company?** *Since February 2014.*

**2. What is your title and role at Canadian Energy?** *CFO and General Counsel.*

**3. What’s the best thing about coming to work every day?** ​*Working with people that I like being around.*

**4. What’s the one piece of advice you’d give to someone who is just getting started with our Company?** *When someone asks for a piece of advice, never give just one piece of advice. Just Kidding! Find joy in doing the most ordinary things and everyday will be filled with happiness … AND …  Smile when you don’t feel like it and you will find yourself feeling like smiling.*

**5. What’s the reason you’ve stayed with CE so long?** *I have enjoyed the growth of the organization and how I feel when I think about what we do.*

**6. What is your motto or personal mantra?** *Doing the right thing, especially when it is hard, will always lead to the right result.*

**7. What is your favourite movie? ***The Princess Bride.*

**8. Who is your favourite band or singer?** *Billy Joel.*

**9. If Hollywood made a movie about your life, who would you like to see star as you?** *Benedict Cumberbatch, because with a last name like Cumberbatch, he might really understand what it is like to have a last name like Smurthwaite.*

**10. If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive who would it be and why? ***Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau because someone needs to slap some sense into that wacko!*

**11. If you had to eat one meal, every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?** *A big garden salad with a vinaigrette dressing with a side of avocado toast and freshly squeezed orange, cranberry, mango juice.*

**12. If it could help with your job, what superpower would you like to have?** *I'd like to be able to clone myself an unlimited number of times and control all of my clones with a hive mind.*

**13. Who do you nominate for our interview next month? ***Kelly Sauerberg.*

Thanks Dean!

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