Douglas has over 40 years of experience with upstream oil and gas operations both in Canada and internationally.  Douglas has been a founding member of three upstream oil and gas start-up companies, extending his experience from subsurface and operational responsibilities to include private and public capital funding, corporate acquisitions and divestitures, restructuring and compliance. Douglas built a successful independent consulting practice developing economic/statistical models to evaluate opportunities and completed several feasibility and pre-FEED studies.  Subsequently, Douglas was recruited to a Canadian independent producer to oversee the company’s international engineering and business development.  In 2017, Douglas co-founded True North Renewable Fuels Ltd., as the President and CEO, and was responsible for the strategic direction and development of the business in accordance with current and proposed North American regulations, up until the sale of the company’s assets in March of 2021.

Stu has over 15 years of capital markets experience, specializing in the Canadian energy sector. Stu’s career began as an investment banking analyst, later an associate, with a boutique Canadian investment bank, which focused on the junior and mid-cap Canadian E&P sectors, as well as the Canadian Energy Services sector. In 2010, Stu joined Desjardins’ energy investment banking team and held increasing levels of seniority. In 2017, Stu was appointed to Managing Director of Desjardins Capital Market’s energy investment banking team, responsible for the strategic direction of the energy investment banking platform. Stu started working with True North in September of 2019 as an advisor assisting in sourcing capital to advance the development of the project.  During the efforts to secure capital, Stu became more involved with the company and his responsibilities were extended to include the development of off-take and feedstock arrangements, sourcing partnership opportunities and general business strategy.

Melissa has over 19 years of experience in the Canadian energy industry, holding various roles in project engineering, project and portfolio management, operational excellence, project advisory roles, and business development.  Melissa’s career began in gas compression where she was involved in the design, implementation and start-up in gas compression projects. In 2005 Melissa joined Penn West and worked for 8 years in Facilities, Production Engineering and led the pipeline repair and maintenance team supporting Western Canada. In 2012 Melissa joined Cenovus Energy supporting front end development and execution of major capital projects in the Oil Sands. Melissa was most recently working as a Senior Project Advisor for a major infrastructure company conducting “cold eye” reviews across all the Capital Projects Portfolio business units across the organization.  In 2022, Melissa joined Azure to lead the engineer efforts with respect to the project’s development.   

Darren has over 20 years of experience in the Canadian energy industry, holding various roles in operations, negotiations, acquisitions and divestitures, business development and corporate finance. Darren’s career began at Canadian Natural Resources Limited, where during his time within the mineral land department Darren focused on oil and gas land regulations, working with internal and external partners, and then eventually transferred into mineral land negotiations at EnCana Corporation.  In 2011, Darren left EnCana and pursued a 7.5 year career with Desjardins Capital Markets.  During his time with Desjardins, he worked with a fully integrated team of professionals assisting client’s source innovative financing solutions.  Darren started working with True North in September of 2019, Darren efforts and responsibilities were focused on business development, government relations, regulatory and sourcing carbon reduction opportunities.

Sean has over 10 years of capital markets experience, specializing in the Canadian energy sector. Sean’s career began as a research associate with Peters & Co. Limited, a Canadian boutique investment bank. This included coverage of the Canadian senior, mid-cap, Junior, and international E&P sectors as well as the Canadian Midstream sector. In 2015, Sean joined National Bank Financial as part of its Institutional Equities desk. Responsibilities included raising capital for a broad spectrum of companies, engaging with institutional investors across North America, and maintaining relationships with senior management in both publicly traded and private enterprises. In 2020, Sean joined Fordwater as a partner and was principally involved in sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities.  In 2022, Sean joined Azure and is principally responsible for the development of business and commercial relations.