Marshall Abbott

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Abbott is a highly accomplished oil & gas executive, having successfully built and sold several companies throughout his 37-year career in the industry. Most recently, Mr. Abbott was the CEO & Chairman of Rampart Oil Inc., a company he co-founded and built to 3,500 bbls/d of production.

Previously, Mr. Abbott was the CEO & Chairman of Bernum Petroleum Inc., a company he co-founded and built to 3,000 bbls/d of production until its sale to Caltex Resources Ltd. Mr. Abbott has also been the Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of numerous other oil & gas companies in Canada and internationally, including Sabretooth Energy Inc. (sold to Cequence Energy Ltd.), Cougar Hydrocarbons Ltd. (sold to Starpoint Energy), and Equatorial Energy Ltd. (sold to Resolute Energy Corp.).

Mr. Abbott has also held senior management roles with Stampeder Exploration Ltd., Morrison Petroleums Ltd., and Texaco Canada Resources Ltd. He is a past director of Voyager Energy Inc. and Iron Bridge Resources Inc, both of which were sold following significant growth through successful exploration. Mr. Abbott holds a B.Sc. degree (Honours Geology) from the University of Alberta.

Joe McFarlane

Chief Financial Officer

Mr. McFarlane is a highly accomplished oil & gas finance executive, having helped to successfully build and sell several companies throughout his 27-year professional career. He has both domestic Canadian as well as international experience.

Most recently, Mr. McFarlane was the CFO of Rampart Oil Inc., a company he co-founded and helped build to 3,500 bbls/d of production. Previously, Mr. McFarlane was the CFO of Bernum Petroleum Inc., a company he co-founded and helped build to 3,000 bbls/d of production until its sale to Caltex Resources Ltd. Mr. McFarlane was also the Co-Founder and CFO of Sabretooth Energy Inc. (sold to Cequence Energy Ltd.).

Mr. McFarlane previously held various senior finance roles with NAV Energy Trust, EnCana Corporation (now Ovintiv Inc.) and its predecessor, PanCanadian Energy Corp., among others. Mr. McFarlane began his career in the Audit & Advisory Services Group of Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. McFarlane holds a B.Comm. degree from the University of Calgary. He is a registered CPA and CA.

Alex Mora

VP Finance

Mr. Mora is a finance executive with proven experience building successful companies throughout his 20+ years of professional career in Canada and internationally.

Mr. Mora previously held various senior finance roles with Maha Energy AB, TransGlobe Energy Corp., PetroNova Inc. and Petrodorado among others. Mr. Mora has also been an executive or consultant for other non-oil & gas enterprises, such as Element Fleet Management, Founders Advantage Capital and Acadian Seaplants Ltd.among others. He began and developed his career in different Big 4’s (Deloitte, Arthur Andersen, EY) both in Canada and Latin America. Mr. Mora holds a B.Comm. degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Venezuela) and he is also fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Phil Miller

SVP Exploration

Phil Miller is a geoscientist with over 35 years of experience managing exploration and development projects throughout Africa, the Middle East, North Sea and Latin America. Previously, Mr. Miller has held senior management roles with Pan African Oil, Nexen and Home Oil International.

Giovanni Flautero

VP Engineering

Giovanni Flautero holds a B.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering with over 28 years of technical and managerial experience covering several aspects in the oil and gas business, including operations, exploitation, studies and planning, which lead him to specialize in reservoir management.

All this experience has been applied in an ample range of assets producing heavy oil, light oil and gas.

Mr. Flautero has international working exposure in developing projects in several places including North America, South America, Africa, and the Middle East.

Mike Ponto

VP Land and Business Development

Mr. Ponto has extensive negotiations, contracts, property and corporate acquisition and disposition, business development, surface acquisition, landowner relations and community consultation experience throughout the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Mr. Ponto also has experience with the evaluation of various corporate and asset acquisitions in Colombia.

Mr. Ponto has held roles of ever-increasing authority over the course of a 33-year career in the oil and gas industry and was most recently the VP Land & Business Development at Bernum Petroleum Ltd. and Rampart Oil Inc., managing a combined land base of approximately 125,000 net acres.  Mr. Ponto was also formerly the VP Land of Sabretooth Energy Ltd., managing a land base of over 150,000 net acres throughout Alberta and British Columbia.

Mr. Ponto is a member of the Canadian Association of Land and Energy Professionals, the American Association of Professional Landmen and the Association of International Energy Negotiators.