Over 25 years of experience in the energy business as an executive, director, early investor, and lawyer.

Executive Chairman, Director and/or officer of public and private companies in the oil and gas Canadian and international E&P, Canadian oil and gas services, and IT sectors, including Scimitar Hydrocarbons Corp., Infiniti Resources, Stone Mountain Resources, Destiny Resource Services Corp.

Former partner with Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP and with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP with an energy-focused practice both domestically & internationally, regularly leading corporate and asset acquisitions and divestitures valued in the hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars.

BComm (1982) U of Alberta; LLB U of Alberta (1986), Member of Law Society of Alberta; Member of Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.