About Roxham Advisory & Consulting Services

Roxham Advisory and Consulting Services, Inc. (established in 2020):

VISION:  Building resilient, sustainable businesses and communities through sound policy and planning.

MISSION:  Leveraging passion, commitment and integrity through hands-on entrepreneurial, economic development and public-sector leadership experience in shaping sound public policies and sustainable business solutions.

PURPOSE:  Helping clients shape a stronger and more resilient tomorrow.

Neil Jacobsen:

Neil Jacobsen has spent several decades successfully promoting economic growth and diversification in the greater Saint John and Fundy regions of New Brunswick, having worked in a management capacity for the Saint John YMCA-YWCA Enterprise Centre, Business Development Bank of Canada, Saint John Waterfront Development Partnership and Enterprise Saint John. Through these organizations he has supported local small business start-ups, coordinated the delivery of a wide range of small business training and consulting programs, managed a growing portfolio of business relocation and investment prospects, and co-launched a nationally recognized multi-million-dollar community redevelopment project on the Saint John waterfront.

Most recently, Neil served as Deputy City Manager and Acting City Manager for the City of Saint John where his operational responsibilities included a range of strategic initiatives and the City’s corporate services functions, including the launch of a dedicated internal continuous improvement program and leading a series of corporate sustainability initiatives. Neil achieved green belt certification as a lean six sigma process improvement facilitator in 2017.

Before joining the City of Saint John, Neil led the team that managed energy-related policy, planning, and regulatory affairs activities for the Province of New Brunswick as Assistant Deputy Minister with the New Brunswick Department of Energy and Mines. Through a contractual arrangement with Roxham, Inc., Neil currently serves as the Senior Policy Consultant for the Atlantica Centre for Energy.

Neil’s exposure to business is deep rooted – he grew up involved in a successful family business and has owned and operated three small businesses. He attended the State University of New York (with honors) and McGill University, where he received his Bachelor of Engineering degree. He later went on to receive his Master of Business Administration degree from the Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario, and has also completed a certificate in Labour Relations from the Industrial Relations Centre (IRC) at Queen’s University. Neil was appointed as a Teaching Associate in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of New Brunswick in 2019 and is an instructor at the Faculty of Business (MBA Program).

Neil has also been actively involved in a wide range of community organizations and has served on the Board of Directors of the Fundy Trail Development Authority (as Vice President), Atlantica Centre for Energy, Crane Mountain Enhancement Inc., Uptown Saint John, Family Services Saint John and First Night Saint John (as founding President).  Neil has served as the Chair of Small Business Week for the Fundy Region and Co-Chair of the Saint John Board of Trade’s Business and Community Development Committee.  He currently serves on the Saint John Energy Board of Commissioners and was recently appointed as a Trustee for the Saint John Energy Shared Risk Pension Plan.