Ralph Sultan grew up painting houses in East Vancouver. He went on to teach at Harvard, run The Royal Bank of Canada's global energy division, and become the oldest person ever elected to the BC Legislature.

Ralph’s 75-year working career, from 1945 to 2020, was not simply diverse, it spanned eras of Canadian and American economic and political history. He lived through and participated in the rise of modern marketing, the evolution of economic research at Harvard, the evolution and miniaturization of the computer at IBM, the transformation and globalization of Canadian banking, the consequences of Trudeau’s National Energy Program, Ottawa’s attempts to re-invigorate the Canada’s vast north, reshaping of BC politics, awakening of the Quebec separation movement, globalization of corporate consulting, and recognition of the environmental consequences of resource development.