Management Team
Gordon Hart, President
Mr. Hart has forty years energy industry experience. Currently, he is the Chairman of Landis Energy Inc. and Director of Alton Storage Inc. He served as the CEO/President of Access Northeast Inc, and during that time he initiated and permitted the Bear Head Nova Scotia LNG Receiving Terminal and subsequently sold Access Northeast Inc to Anadarko.
Mr. Hart spent 27 years with Shell Canada, including 10 years in operations, and 15 years in Shell’s commodity marketing (Gas/NGL/Sulphur); plus 5 years consulting in Canada and Northeast USA. Clients included Coral, Shell, NSPI, Emera, Enbridge, EPCOR, NSRL, TCGS and the NS Government.
Wayne Rousch, Executive Vice President
Mr. Rousch has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry primarily in Western and Eastern Canada. He has also worked in Australia, Mexico, and throughout North America.
Mr. Rousch was employed with the Nova Corporation for 23 years, primarily in the unregulated businesses including 11 years with PanAlberta Gas Ltd as the VP, Gas Supply. In 1995 Wayne began the Midstream Business in Canada through the formation of Novagas Clearinghouse Ltd. as Vice President, Project Development and Novagas Canada Ltd. as the VP External Affairs and New Ventures. In 1998 Wayne left Nova Corporation and formed a consulting practice and had several oil and gas clients. In 1999, Wayne developed the Paramount Resources Ltd. Natural Gas pipeline into the NWT.
In May 2000, he joined Emera Inc as Senior VP Business Development. He developed Emera Energy Inc., which included unregulated Midstream Business and Energy trading in Atlantic Canada.
Randy Kopjar, Senior VP Engineering and Construction
Randy Kopjar is a professional engineer with over 25 years experience in the petroleum industry.
Most recently, Mr. Kopjar held the position of Vice President Gas Commercialization for Anadarko Canada Corporation where he was responsible for the development of the Bear Head LNG Terminal in Point Tupper, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
Mr. Kopjar began his career with Norcen Energy Resources in 1980 as a production engineer in the Company’s Calgary office. He has held a variety of positions in production, joint venture, midstream, and project management including Manager Environment, Health & Safety and Operations Manager in Venezuela.
Karen Gregory, CA VP Finance
Ms. Gregory is a Chartered Accountant with a practice in Strathmore AB, a growing Satellite community east of Calgary.
Her full time practice was founded 18 years ago and has since grown from three people to thirty three people. Ms. Gregory and her husband have been involved in many businesses in the area, including the construction of a 400 unit residential housing development in town. Most recently they have purchased, with a partner, a large agricultural business, grossing close to $28 mm in the past year.
In addition, Ms. Gregory has been a Board Member of the Canadian Federation of Independent business for the past 5 years as well as an active member on a Review Committee for the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Greg Appleyard, VP Commercial Development
Greg was born and raised in the Strathmore area on his family’s cattle operation. After graduating from High School he went to the University of Calgary where he studied political science.
The lure of land ownership cut his studies short as he bought his first half section of land at the age of nineteen.
After working at Cattleland for a few years, he was offered the opportunity to purchase the business. With a partner, he was able to buy the 25,000 head feed lot as well as secure ownership and lease options on a fifteen thousand acre farm.
A large ranch was later purchased with other investors to further enhance the cattle operations.
Greg was able to accomplish all of this before the age of thirty.
Mr. Appleyard is presently expanding his research facilities at the feed lot and is continuously striving to add value to all aspects of agricultural activities including liaisons with some of the largest feeders in the U. S.