Board of Directors

Mr. Wilson is a significant investor in Forent Energy and is Chairman of the Board of Directors.

An oil and gas veteran, Mr Wilson is a U of S trained engineer with an MBA from the U of C. He has enjoyed nearly three decades as an investment banker specializing in oil and gas transactions. He was a co-founder and partner at FirstEnergy Capital Corp., the energy industry's leading investment bank. He is now Chairman of Prairie Merchant Corporation, a private merchant bank focused on business opportunities in the energy, agriculture, real estate, sports, and entertainment industries.

Mr. Wilson has been honored with numerous awards during his career, including being ranked as one of Canada's "Top 40 under 40", Top 20 Deal Makers, and Top 10 M&A Specialists. He is a distinguished graduate of the U of C's Faculty of Management and the U of S College of Engineering and has been recognized for significant contributions to the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) both at the regional and global levels. In 2008, he was named Alberta Venture Magazine's Business Person of the Year.

Mr. Wilson also enjoys a television career as the host of the high stakes TV investing series “Risky Business”.

 

Mr. Crosbie has more than 30 years of business experience and is the Chairman of the Board of the Crosbie Group Limited, a diversified family business involved in real estate development, construction and off shore oil and gas services in Atlantic Canada. Mr. Crosbie is also the President of ASCO Canada, a business unit of ASCO Group of Aberdeen, a world-wide oil and gas logistics company. In addition, Mr. Crosbie is the Chairman of the Board of Marine Atlantic Inc. and the Dean's Advisory Board for the faculty of Business at Memorial University.

Mr. Crosbie, a native of Newfoundland and Labrador, brings to Forent an important Atlantic Canadian understanding and perspective. In the past Mr. Crosbie has been involved with numerous not for profit organizations, including being the Chairman of the St. John's Board of Trade.

 

Mr. Forgeron is the President of Compass Compression Services Ltd., a manufacturer of engineered natural gas compression packages for domestic and international markets. He brings to Forent Energy nearly 20 years of experience in both public and private oilfield service companies. Mr. Forgeron started in the industry in the early 90s with Imperial Oil Operations in Swan Hills. Later, he joined Enerflex Systems Ltd. and then served at Toromont Industries in sales and engineering roles.

In March 2005, Mr. Forgeron joined Compass as an owner, Director and Vice President. During this time he also established three successful, privately financed, oilfield rental companies. In March 2008 he accepted the role of President at Compass Compression, secured further financing and amalgamated the group of companies into the Compass Compression of today. Since the merger Compass Compression has increased its revenue by over 140 percent despite the significant industry downturn.

Mr. Forgeron is originally from Nova Scotia and graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

 

Mr. Lester has 35 years in the energy industry in various capacities including government industry associations as well as private and public oil companies. Since 1994, Mr. Lester has been an independent businessman, involved with a variety of business and not-for-profit organizations. During this time he has been involved in the founding of two capital pool companies and the successful re-capitalization of a TSX oil and gas company which involved raising more than $100,000,000 from public markets. His roles have included board of director responsibilities, senior management, legal affairs, investor relations, project and corporate analysis, treasury and finance, and oil and gas liquids marketing.

 

Mr. Porter is Principal of Porter Valuations Inc., a specialty business valuation firm providing valuation and financial consulting services to a broad spectrum of private and public companies throughout Western Canada since 1997. He is also CFO and Director of Guatavita Gold Corporation, a private mining company focused on precious metals exploration in South America. Mr. Porter has over 20 years experience in accounting, business valuation and financial consulting. He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary. He is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Business Valuator.

He is also a director and audit committee chairman of Manson Creek Resources Ltd. (TSXV) and a director of Petro Occidente Capital Corp. (TSXV).

 

Mr. Reeves is a partner with a practice focused on securities, corporate finance and commercial transactions for emerging and growth companies and partnerships. He has advised numerous private and public corporations in a wide range of business matters including access to capital markets, corporate governance and operational issues.

He acts for a large number of TSX and TSX Venture Exchange-listed companies in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, mining, technology, biotechnology and industrial issuers. Mr. Reeves has extensive experience in private and public debt and equity offerings, corporate acquisitions of assets and shares, corporate restructurings and debt financing. He also acts a director and/or corporate secretary for many public and private companies, providing detailed corporate governance and continuous disclosure advice to his clients.

Mr. Reeves has both law and bachelor of commerce degrees (with distinction) from the University of Alberta where he served as editor in chief for the Alberta Law Review. He has received numerous academic and community service awards and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of growth financing, stock exchange listing and corporate governance.

He has acted as a lead instructor for the Masters degree program in eBusiness from Osgoode Hall Law School and has taught advanced corporate finance and corporations law at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law. Mr Reeves is also a member of the Alberta Advisory Board for the TSX Venture Exchange.

Mr. Reeves is active in various community and professional organizations, including as a member of the National Advocacy Committee of the Canadian Diabetes Association and Chairman of the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta) Business Law subsection.