Novaporte Leadership Biographies

Albert Barbusci is a born entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in advertising, business development and real estate investment. Multilingual and broadly travelled, Barbusci is expansive in his view of business opportunities, especially those of a global nature. Barbusci has worked with business partners around the world including Europe, the Middle East, Japan, China and South East Asia. He established his own highly successful advertising agency, Cadence Communications, in Montréal.

He successfully introduced advertising giant Dentsu ($20 billion in global sales) to Canada and successfully established a joint venture, Dentsu Cadence Canada, headquartered in Toronto, and served as CEO. Dentsu Cadence Canada’s clients included Toyota, Lexus and Canon. Today Dentsu is one of the largest and most successful agencies in Canada. In the 1990’s Barbusci became a partner of the Atlanta Consulting Group, a successful U.S. firm, consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. Barbusci also founded and served as CEO of Events International Inc., a full-service, world congress Management Company.

Since 2014 he has led Sydney Harbour Investment Partners in developing Novaporte and Novazone. Novaporte is a visionary multi-use greenfield port development project in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada- perfectly located as the first port of call for vessels six miles off the Great Circle Route from Europe and the Suez. Spanning over 2000 acres, with 500 acres of fully permitted land ready for immediate development, Novaporte aims to establish a mega offshore wind and hydrogen hub on Canada's east coast. An additional 1200 acres in partnership with all 13 Indigenous communities in Nova Scotia will be transformed into a logistics and energy park adjacent to the port site.