Shelley Bacon is the CEO of Northern Cables Inc., a privately held Canadian manufacturer of low voltage power cables located in Brockville, Ontario. He is one of the principles who started the company in 1996.

Shelley attended McGill University and graduated with a Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering in 1975. While working full time he completed one half of an MBA at McMaster University. He has worked at DOFASCO, Litton Business Systems, Noranda, and Phillips Cables in research and development, process engineering and management roles.

His career has taken him through primary steel manufacturing, corrosion and coatings, high speed steels, nickel and zirconium nuclear tubing, and aluminum and copper electrical cable manufacturing. Shelley is a member of Professional Engineers Ontario, a director of Electro-Federation Canada, a director of the Brockville YMCA, a representative on the St. Lawrence Corridor Economic Development Commission, and volunteers on the Rideau St.Lawrence Science Fair Committee.