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At Best Startup Canada we track over 100,000 Canadian startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top British Columbia based Director operating in the Energy space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.ca.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Eira Thomas
Director of Suncor Energy
Eira Thomas is a respected Canadian geologist who’s career in the Canadian diamond business spans more than 25 years. She spent fourteen years with Aber Resources (Now Dominion Diamond Corporation), serving as a geologist between 1992-1996, Vice-President Exploration between 1997-1999 and as a Director of the Board from 1998-2006. In 2001, Ms. Thomas co-founded Stornoway Ventures Ltd. (now Stornoway Diamond Corporation) and served as CEO of Stornoway until 2008 and Executive Chairman between 2008-2011. Ms. Thomas is currently a director of a number of other public companies and organizations, including Suncor Energy Inc., Lucara Diamond Corp., the Yukon Mineral Advisory Board, the University of Toronto (U of T) Alumni Association, and she is a member of the U of T President’s Internal Advisory Council. Awards/Recognition: 2004: honoured as one of “Canada’s Top 40 under 40” by the Caldwell Partners and the Report on Business Magazine. 2007: awarded The William Harvey Gross Award, bestowed annually by the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada, to a geoscientist less than 40 years of age who has made a significant contribution to the field of economic geology in a Canadian context 2007: selected as one of “Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women”. 2008: one of only four Canadians that year to be named to the “Young Global Leaders”, by the World Economic Forum. 2009: a recipient of the CIM’s (Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy) Past Presidents’ Memorial Medal, awarded to a member under 45 who, by his/her accomplishments, has set an outstanding example to young members of the Institute and to young men/women contemplating a career in the minerals industry. 2010: Ms. Thomas received the Minerva for BC Women Natural Resources Award. Ms. Thomas graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science in Geology in 1990.
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About Lucara Diamond Corp, Lucara Diamond Corp, Suncor Energy: Suncor Energy is an integrated energy company specializes in production of synthetic crude from oil sands.
Mike Chapin
Partner & Managing Director, Development and Resource Planning of Twenty First Century Utilities
Mike Chapin is an accomplished energy executive with over 35 years of transactional experience in power markets, domestically and internationally. He was previously President of Capstone Power Development Corp. in Vancouver, B.C., and Founding Shareholder and Executive Vice President at GreenWing Energy Management Ltd. Over his career, Mike has led the development and acquisition of more than 6 gigawatts of clean energy (wind, solar, and thermal natural gas) projects in North America, including the 100MW St. Leon Wind Energy Project in Manitoba, the 99.5MW High Plains Wind Energy Project in Wyoming, and the sale of a 1,400MW portfolio of wind projects located in California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota. He began his career with electric utilities TransAlta and ATCO Power, as an engineer in the power plants. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Engineering Degree from the University of British Columbia.
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About Twenty First Century Utilities: Twenty First Century Utilities, LLC is working to transform regulated utilities with a twenty first century model.
Joel Dumaresq
Chief Executive Office and Director of Molori Energy
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About Molori Energy, Taat Global: Molori Energy is a diversified oil and gas producer currently with operations in the Texas Panhandle.
Judy-Ann Pottinger
Communications Director of Molori Energy
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About Molori Energy: Molori Energy is a diversified oil and gas producer currently with operations in the Texas Panhandle.
Amir Adnani
President, Founder, Director & CEO of Uranium Energy
Mr. Adnani is a founder of Uranium Energy Corp and has been the President, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of the Company since January 2005. He serves as a spokesman for the uranium industry before all international media, and is frequently invited to speak before major industry gatherings including the Milken Institute Global Conference and the World Nuclear Fuel Conference. He is recognized by Casey Research, a leading investment advisory publisher, as a top-ten leading mining industry entrepreneur and executive. Mr. Adnani is an entrepreneur with a background in business development and marketing. In 2004, he founded Blender Media Inc. where he served as the President and a director until 2006. Blender Media is a strategic communications firm for public companies, and in 2005, was named one of the fastest growing companies in Canada by Profit magazine. He is also a founder and the Chairman of Brazil Resources Inc., a gold exploration company listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange with projects in the gold districts of Brazil. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia, and serves on the university’s Alumni Advisory Board.
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About Goldmining Inc, Uranium Energy, Uranium Royalty: Uranium Energy specializes in acquiring exploration databases and leveraging those databases to generate acquisition.
Richard MacKellar
Managing Director of Chrysalix Venture Capital
As an engineer, Mr. MacKellar started his career with NEI Parsons, a division of Rolls Royce that designed turbines and generators for power generation. For the past sixteen years, Mr. MacKellar has been running venture backed startup companies. Most recently, as President and CEO, he successfully sold BrightSide Technologies to Dolby Laboratories for an annualized return for investors of 45-60%. Prior to this, he was President/CEO of NxtPhase, raising $57 million in venture capital and building relationships with GE, Honeywell and Mitsubishi as well as the three largest Canadian utilities and three of the larger U.S. utilities. Mr. MacKellar holds a metallurgy degree from Sheffield University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Chrysalix Venture Capital: Chrysalix is an early-stage industrial innovation venture capital firm.
Nick DeMare
Director of Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp.
Nick DeMare is a chartered accountant, has been President of Chase Management Inc. since 1991, providing accounting, management, securities regulatory compliance and corporate secretarial services to private and public-listed companies. Mr. DeMare also serves as an officer and/or director of a number of public-listed companies. Mr. DeMare holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia.
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About Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp., Hansa Resources: Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp is focused on acquiring high quality lithium projects in Argentina.
Leigh Curyer
President, Director & Chief Executive Officer of NexGen Energy
Curyer has over 20 years experience in the resources and corporate sector. Mr. Curyer is the founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of NexGen Energy Ltd. and was previously the Chief Financial Officer and head of corporate development of Southern Cross Resources (now Uranium One). In addition, for three years Mr. Curyer was Head of Corporate Development for Accord Nuclear Resource Management assessing uranium projects worldwide for First Reserve Corporation, a global energy — focused private equity and infrastructure investment firm. Mr. Curyer’s uranium project assessment experience has been focused on assets located in Canada, Australia, USA, Africa, Central Asia and Europe, incorporating operating mines, advanced development projects and exploration prospects. While Chief Financial Officer of Southern Cross Resources (now Uranium One), Mr. Curyer managed the exploration, permitting and feasibility study of the Honeymoon Uranium Project in South Australia, ensuring full compliance with NI43-101 reporting. Mr Curyer has raised over $500 million of equity in North America, US, Europe and Australia. Mr. Curyer is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.
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About International Consolidated Uranium, IsoEnergy, NexGen Energy: NexGen Energy Ltd is a Canadian based uranium exploration and development company established by Tigers Realm Group.
Jessica Wolford
Director, Corporate Priorities of Terramera
Jessica is responsible for leading both internal and external Corporate Communications. She is also the lead for People Operations and Human Resources. Jessica comes to Terramera with over 8 years’ experience in strategic communications, policy development, stakeholder relations, issues management expertise, and proven leadership of diverse teams. Prior to joining the Terramera team, Jessica held senior positions within the BC Provincial Government, both in the BC Public Service and the Premier’s Office. Her last government posting was Deputy Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Official Opposition.
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About Terramera: Terramera provides intelligence developing safer, more effective plant-based replacements to synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
John Lando
CEO, President & Secretary/Director of New World Resource
Mr. Lando has more than 20 years of experience working in the equity markets and managing and financing public companies. He has worked for RBC Dominion Securities and has served as a Director of several public companies. Mr. Lando is also the CEO and President of Northern Lion Gold and Nano One Materials Corp.
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About New World Resource: A New Age Of Mineral Exploration In The Americas.
Susan Koch
Boards of Directors of FuelCellsEtc
Susan is a finance veteran in pre-commercial alternate energy / clean technology companies. She is a chartered professional accountant (CPA, CA) with more than 30 years’ experience. Prior to joining Carbon Engineering, she held positions of CFO at General Fusion and Vaperma, and VP Finance and CFO at Cellex Power Products. From Cellex through to General Fusion, Susan was a core team member on equity financings totaling $130M, raising funds from North American, European and International investors, in addition to accessing a broad range of non-dilutive funding
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About Carbon Engineering: FuelCellsEtc specializes in providing highly customized Fuel Cell and Electrolyzer components.
Trevor Burgess
CEO, Co-Founder, Director of VoltSafe Inc.
CEO – VoltSafe Inc.
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About VoltSafe Inc.: Fearless creators, changing how people connect to electricity using magnets. Simply put, we’ve patented a better way to connect to power.
Matt Wayrynen
CEO, COO & Board of Directors of Solar Flow-Through
Mr. Wayrynen provides experience in resource company management, venture capital, startup financing, and mergers and acquisitions. He is an original co-founder and former President and CEO of TrichoScience Innovations Inc., which became Replicel Life Sciences Inc. As a director of Quinto Mining, he helped raise millions of dollars and advanced a Quebec iron ore property to a viable project. Quinto sold to Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines in June 2008 for a share value equal to $175 million. (Consolidated Thompson was eventually sold to Cliffs Resources for $4.9 billion). Mr. Wayrynen has also been involved in the evaluation of investment opportunities in solar projects in Italy. He was formerly active in the real estate industry as a licensed salesman and licensed agent nominee in charge of real estate for multiple retail projects throughout the greater Vancouver area. In addition, he was a licensed securities professional for over 10 years. Currently, he is also a director of several publicly-listed resource companies.
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About Solar Flow-Through, WestKam Gold: Solar Flow-Through develops and operates solar PV power generation projects in Ontario, Canada.
Donald Huston
Director of Skyharbour Resources
Don Huston is a independent Director of Skyharbour Resources Ltd. He has been associated with the mineral exploration industry for over 30 years and has extensive experience as a financier and in-field manager of numerous mineral exploration projects in North America. He was born and raised in Red Lake, Ontario and spent 15 years as a geophysical contractor with C.D. Huston & Sons Ltd. as mineral exploration consultants in northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Mr. Huston serves as a Director of 5 Canadian public resource companies.
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About MPH Ventures Corp, Skyharbour Resources: Skyharbour Resources (TSX-V: SYH) is a uranium and thorium exploration company.
Jordan Trimble
Director, President & CEO of Skyharbour Resources
Jordan Trimble is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Skyharbour Resources. Mr. Trimble holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Minor in Commerce from UBC and he is a CFA® charterholder. He has worked in the resource industry in various roles with numerous TSX Venture listed companies specializing in corporate finance and strategy, shareholder communications, marketing, deal structuring and capital raising. Mr. Trimble has an extensive network of institutional and retail investors as well as resource industry professionals bringing valuable relationships to the Company. He has appeared on BNN several times and has given presentations at numerous resource conferences across North America. Mr. Trimble has completed the Canadian Securities Course and Technical Analysis Course offered through CSI as well as several geology, exploration and mining courses.
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About Rockridge Resources, Skyharbour Resources: Skyharbour Resources (TSX-V: SYH) is a uranium and thorium exploration company.
Donald Myers
Director of Skyharbour Resources
Don Myers serves as a non-executive Director and audit committee member of Skyharbour Resources Ltd. Mr. Myers is the Director of Corporate Communications at 98 Corporate Group Resources Ltd. which provides public company administrative management services including venture capital financing, business development, accounting and corporate communications. He has thirty plus years of experience in public company management and investor relations having helped raise over $350 million in venture capital for resource and technology companies listed on the TSX Venture, NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Don’s background includes holding the position of an independent director and audit committee member or as an executive officer managing the investor relations and corporate communications of several publicly traded Canadian resource and technology companies.
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About Skyharbour Resources: Skyharbour Resources (TSX-V: SYH) is a uranium and thorium exploration company.
Donald Myers
Director of Skyharbour Resources
Don Myers serves as a non-executive Director and audit committee member of Skyharbour Resources Ltd. Mr. Myers is the Director of Corporate Communications at 98 Corporate Group Resources Ltd. which provides public company administrative management services including venture capital financing, business development, accounting and corporate communications. He has thirty plus years of experience in public company management and investor relations having helped raise over $350 million in venture capital for resource and technology companies listed on the TSX Venture, NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchanges. Don’s background includes holding the position of an independent director and audit committee member or as an executive officer managing the investor relations and corporate communications of several publicly traded Canadian resource and technology companies.
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About Skyharbour Resources: Skyharbour Resources (TSX-V: SYH) is a uranium and thorium exploration company.
John Kim
CFO, Director of Mount Dakota Energy Corp.
S. J. Kim is President at MIK Investment Group Ltd. He is on the Board of Directors at KR Investment Ltd. and Mount Dakota Energy Corp. Mr. Kim was previously employed as Independent Director & Investor Relations Contact by Global Key Investment Ltd. He received his undergraduate degree from McGill University.
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About Mount Dakota Energy Corp.: Mount Dakota is a publicly traded company in the business of acquiring, exploring, and developing petroleum prospects.
Lyle Harvey
Director of Mount Dakota Energy Corp.
Harvey is a land developer with Calgary-based Carbrooke Land Co., as well as a former owner and president of Smithbilt Hats Ltd., Canada’s oldest continuously operating hat manufacturer. Mr. Harvey has had vast experience in analyzing financial statements and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University.
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About Mount Dakota Energy Corp.: Mount Dakota is a publicly traded company in the business of acquiring, exploring, and developing petroleum prospects.
Peter Kohl
Director of Mount Dakota Energy Corp.
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About Mount Dakota Energy Corp.: Mount Dakota is a publicly traded company in the business of acquiring, exploring, and developing petroleum prospects.
Steve Loo
Chairman, President, Director of Mount Dakota Energy Corp.
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About Mount Dakota Energy Corp.: Mount Dakota is a publicly traded company in the business of acquiring, exploring, and developing petroleum prospects.
Frank Estergaard
Director of Fission 3.0
Mr. Estergaard is a professional Chartered Accountant who retired as a Partner with KPMG in 2001. His career with KPMG spanned 38 years, providing audit, taxation and business advice to clients in Vancouver, Vernon, Ottawa and Kelowna. He served a wide variety of corporations in the forestry, mining, real estate and land development, high technology, manufacturing, wholesale and retail industries. These companies ranged from start-ups to mature enterprises with both domestic and world-wide operations. In addition, he served on the Management Committee and Partnership Board of KPMG Following his retirement from KPMG, Mr. Estergaard has served as a Director and Chairman of the audit committee for QHR Technologies Inc. (TSX-V), CFO for Metalex Ventures Ltd. (TSX-V) and CFO and/or Director for several private entities, including Okanagan Capital Fund (VCC) Inc., Rackforce Networks Inc., Wear Air Oxygen Inc. and Wear Air Industrial Inc.
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About Fission 3.0: Fission 3.0 is a Canadian-based uranium project generator company.
William Marsh
Director of Fission 3.0
Mr. Marsh previously worked on domestic and international drilling programs for Chevron for 15 years both in Canada and Internationally. Mr. Marsh was a former director of Pacific Asia China Energy until its sale to Green Dragon Gas wholly owned subsidiary, Greka China Ltd, for 35.18 million in 2008. He was also a former director of Predator Capital Corp. and Wolf Capital Corp. and is currently on the Board of Ballyliffin Capital Corp. Mr. Marsh has also provided consulting services to a number of resource exploration and production companies, both public and private, operating in Canada and internationally.
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About Fission 3.0: Fission 3.0 is a Canadian-based uranium project generator company.
Jeremy Ross
Director of Fission 3.0
Mr. Ross has more than seventeen years in corporate development and marketing for small cap to mid tier mining, oil and gas companies. With a comprehensive network of institutional and retail relationships, Mr. Ross has planned and implemented numerous marketing campaigns. He was the Corporate Development Consultant for Fission Energy and played a key role in growing investor awareness up until its major sale of assets to Denison Mines. In 2013, Mr. Ross was appointed to the Board of Directors of Fission Uranium and was appointed to the Fission 3.0 Board of Directors following Fission Uranium’s acquisition of Alpha Minerals.
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About Fission 3.0: Fission 3.0 is a Canadian-based uranium project generator company.
Slawek Smulewicz
CEO & Director of MicroCoal
Mr. Smulewicz has been the acting CEO of MicroCoal® Technologies Inc.. since June 2011. He operated as Vice President of Carbon Friendly Solutions Inc. from 2008 until his appointment as CEO; he is also a director of the Company since 2008. Mr. Smulewicz has served on the Board of several European private companies in consulting, IT and construction industries; especially during the start-up phase or restructuring processes. From 2006 until 2009, he led a successful remedial process, completing the financing of over 50 million PLN for a European private company. In 2001, he founded BDSG Grupa Finansowa Sp. z o. o., where he acted as CEO and Director until 2008. In 1998, he co-founded Internetowy Instytut Infomacji 3i Sp. z o. o. where he acted as CEO and Director until 2001. Mr. Smulewicz was an advisor to Vice Marshal of Presidium of The Sejm of The Republic of Poland (Polish Parliament) in 1998 and received his license as a broker of Warsaw Exchange (WGT S.A.), Poland in 1995. He has a M.Sc. in Agriculture & Business Administration from the Warsaw University of Life Science (SGGW) in Warsaw, Poland.
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About G2 Technologies Corp., MicroCoal: MicroCoal focuses on providing clean-coal upgrading technology that reduces contaminants in coal resulting in upgraded energy content.
Luquman Shaheen
President, CEO, Director of Panoro Minerals
Mr. Shaheen has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. He has over 22 years of experience in the international mining sector with over 17 years dedicated to the development of mineral projects in Peru and Latin America. Mr. Shaheen resided in Peru from 1996 until 2001, is fluent in Spanish and English, very knowledgeable of the Peruvian mining sector and the social, environmental and business issues of this important mineral producing nation.
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About Panoro Minerals: Panoro Minerals Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration company with a strategic focus on exploring and advancing.
Carl Jonsson
Board of Directors of Bonterra Energy Corp.
Carl Jonsson is a Board of Directors at Bonterra Energy.
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About : Bonterra Energy Corp. is a high-yield, dividend paying oil and gas company.
Carl Jonsson
Board of Directors of Bonterra Energy Corp.
Carl Jonsson is a Board of Directors at Bonterra Energy.
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About : Bonterra Energy Corp. is a high-yield, dividend paying oil and gas company.
Benjamin Jones
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Canada Energy Partners
Mr. Benjamin M. Jones has been involved in the oil and gas industry in North America since 1977. Mr. Jones worked for Placid Oil Company in Dallas, Texas from 1977 to 1981 as an exploitation engineer. In 1981, Mr. Jones became an independent explorationist, screening, generating, and promoting drilling prospects on the eastern shelf of the Permian Basin of West Central Texas. In 1986, Mr. Jones shifted his focus to the Gulf Coast Basin and toward raising drilling funds and investing in drilling prospects. In 1988, Mr. Jones partnered with John R. Howard in a merger of drilling funds and served as Exploration Manager for Carrollton Resources from 1988 to 1997. During this time, Carrollton participated in several hundred drilling wells and operated numerous properties. Carrollton Resources completed a stock merger into Titan Exploration Inc., a public exploration company, in 1997. Mr. Jones was engaged as the Gulf Coast Exploration Manager from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, Mr. Jones redirected his efforts to pursue coalbed methane projects and raised private equity to fund this pursuit. He is the founder of the Company’s Peace River Project in British Columbia. Mr. Jones graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a Masters Degree in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary.
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About Canada Energy Partners: Canada Energy Partners is an emerging Canadian natural gas exploration and development company.
Trevor Melanson
Director of Communications of Clean Energy Canada
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About Clean Energy Canada: Clean Energy Canada is a renewable energy cleantech company located in Vancouver.
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