Montello's management team consists of a dedicated group of professionals. Below you will find a list of all the directors and officers as well as a brief summary on each if available.
Board of Directors
Peter Brown
Gerry Lefevre
Dennis Petke
Mr. Peter C. Brown Position: President, CEO, Chairman, Director Email:
Mr. Peter C. Brown - COO, VP of Exploration and Geology, has over 25 years experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, both internationally and domestically. He is a Structural Geologist/Basin Evaluator. Peter has extensive knowledge at "Sarcee-Jumping Pound" and at "Pincher Creek", both of which are well-known gas producing fields in Alberta. His initial work at Montello has focussed solely on Tennessee reviewing all geological, drilling and logging Data recently acquired as well as other data he has sourced for the benefit of our JV Partnership. He will now be heading up our Sarcee and Pincher Creek Projects for example, the planned commencement of the Sarcee recompletion of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well. Peter is intimately involved with Phil Emrich on the pending evaluation of the 17 feet of interpreted pay at the 8200 foot level of our John Bowen #2 Well.
Mr. Brown began his career as a Geochemist with Robertson Research and later specialized in structural geology and basin dynamics, and has always concentrated in creating a tangible asset base. He has worked in areas as diverse as the North Sea and the foothills of the Andes and with such companies as Petro Canada, Lasmo, Bow Valley Resources, Crestar and Gulf Oil. Between 1997 and 2001, Mr. Brown was the Vice President, Exploration for Crestar Energy International, a division of Crestar Energy Inc. He is a proven oil finder as evidenced while at Crestar where he helped build them build their International Asset Base from 0 to 5000 boepd in a space of 3 years and up to 50 million barrels of reserve base. Peter has also recently been responsible for opening up a new condensate playfairway at Pincher Creek in the southern Alberta Foothills. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK and a Masters of Science from the University of London. Mr. Brown has a reputation as a pragmatist and a problem solver.
Dennis Petke C.A - 604-839-3722 Position: CFO Email:
Mr. Petke is qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Canada, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia (1995). Currently he serves as a director and/or financial officer for a number of private and public companies. His responsibilities include strategic and overall financial management. Mr. Petke has worked with junior oil and gas companies since December 2003 during which time he has accumulated extensive experience in the area of corporate finance, including negotiating and implementing private and public company mergers, as well as facilitating private placement, preference share, convertible debenture, special warrant and debt financings.
Gerry Lefevre Position: Director
Gerry Lefevre is a physician and resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a significant shareholder and has dedicated much time learning more about our projects especially in Southwest Alberta, assisting us in our efforts with JV Partners. He has been involved in various roles for over 15 years in start up private and public companies in the natural resource and bio-medical sectors.
C.M. (Chuck) Baumgart, P. Eng. Position: Marketing and Infrastructure Consultant
C.M. (Chuck) Baumgart, P. Eng. - Consulting VP of Infrastructure and Business Development, is currently a principal of Middleton Energy Management Ltd. which provides consulting and energy management services to the producing and consuming industry in both natural gas and power. Mr. Baumgart obtained his B.Sc. Eng. in 1981 from the University of Manitoba. He has over 26 years energy industry experience of which 20 years was with Mobil Oil and Renaissance Energy in production engineering and natural gas/power marketing. As a production engineer, Mr. Baumgart has optimized output of conventional light oil, heavy oil, and natural gas from all regions of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
In marketing, Chuck progressed through areas of increasing responsibility and was ultimately responsible for the management of a 500 MMCFD natural gas marketing team. Chuck has been involved in all aspects of the natural gas industry and has an excellent working knowledge of the Canadian and U.S. markets including storage, supply-demand analysis, transportation valuation and optimization, gas procurement and sales, and risk management.
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Mr. Darrell Davidson Position: Land and Right of Way Advisor
Mr. Darrell Davidson is from Calgary, Alberta and has 30 years of business management experience that encompasses " Pipeline and Power Line Right of Way Management", as well as Land Brokerage for the resource industry for surface, freehold and crown mineral and oil and gas leases in British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Mr. Davidson has extensive experience in sales , marketing, and business development including joint ventures in the private sector as well as with First Nations. Darrell thrives on the challenges posed by startup situations and brings an innovative mindset due to his broad range of experience. and contacts, Montello welcomes his participation as the Company attempts to solidify its foundation in the oil and gas sector.
Mr. Ross Moulton Position: Consulting Manager of Geology, Sarcee Project
Mr. Ross Moulton - Consulting Manager of Geology, Sarcee Project. While acting as the Geologist for Extreme Energy and subsequently Arapahoe Energy, Ross organized the opportunity for the high impact deep drilling play on the T'su T'ina Indian Reserve with the initial drilling of the 10,957 foot 12-13-23-4 W5M cased Mississippian/ Rundle Gas Well. Bill Cawker and Dwayne Tyrkalo worked with Ross at the commencement of the project as well as on and off over the past 5 years.
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