Proton has assembled an internationally experienced, expert Advisory Board to lead its vision and operations. Proton’s leadership team have played instrumental roles in successful and impactful global companies and organization-and are now providing Proton with technical and organizational innovation as it continues to grow its business worldwide.

Richard Bird
J. Richard Bird retired from Enbridge Inc. in early 2015, having served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Development, and various other roles, including: Executive Vice President Liquids Pipelines, Senior Vice President Corporate Planning and Development, and Vice President and Treasurer.
Mr. Bird has 30 years of experience as an officer of a number of public companies, and serves on the Board of Directors of Bird Construction Inc. He is Founder, President and Chief Investment Officer of the Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation. He is the past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Alberta Investment Management Company. He was named Canada’s CFO of the Year for 2010.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba, and a Masters of Business Administration and PhD from the University of Toronto and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Tom Davis
BBA
As an experienced Senior Consultant, Tom provides insights on value creation strategy. With more than 30 years of successful operation specializing in SAGD projects, he is highly motivated, and results driven.
As an experienced Senior Consultant, Tom provides insights on value creation strategy. With more than 30 years of successful operation specializing in SAGD projects, he is highly motivated, and results driven.

Pietro Di Zanno
A focused individual with proven ability to; impact business growth, lead a team of experts or salespeople, develop and initiate product and country strategies, and build strong customer relationships across cultural interfaces.
Over thirty-five (35) years experience, linking marketing, operations, sales and technology, within the oil and gas, refining and petrochemical industries.

Jan Eden
Jan is the Founder of 21st Century Executive Mindset, a Co-Founder of Bumble Bees Venture Capital and Past President, Association of Corporate Growth (ACG) Calgary Chapter.

Ian Gates
M.A.Sc., Ph.D., P.Eng
Proton co-founder and Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary since 2004. Specializes in energy and materials research with applications in hydrogen, heavy oil, and natural gas.
Proton co-founder and Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary since 2004. Specializes in energy and materials research with applications in hydrogen, heavy oil, and natural gas.

Chris Gallas
(B.A.), (M.A.), MSc, (Ph.D.)
Chris brings on 40 years of professional experience. His expertise is focused on reservoir engineering in thermal and chemical EOR, heavy oil, multi-fracked horizontal well modelling, gas storage, waterfloods and primary depletion.
Chris brings on 40 years of professional experience. His expertise is focused on reservoir engineering in thermal and chemical EOR, heavy oil, multi-fracked horizontal well modelling, gas storage, waterfloods and primary depletion.

Brian Harschnitz
B.Sc., P.Eng
Over 35 years oil & gas industry experience, development of large oil sands resources. Current Director of JACOS and former experience with Imperial Oil.
Over 35 years oil & gas industry experience, development of large oil sands resources. Current Director of JACOS and former experience with Imperial Oil.

John Howard
B. Sc., MBA, P.Eng., ICD.D
Independent director. Over 35 years oil and gas experience including VP Production, CNRL. Other experience includes Verdant Energy, Numac Energy, Shell Canada. Acceleware Advisory Board member, U Calgary Senator, several other board roles.
Independent director. Over 35 years oil and gas experience including VP Production, CNRL. Other experience includes Verdant Energy, Numac Energy, Shell Canada. Acceleware Advisory Board member, U Calgary Senator, several other board roles.

Calvin Johnson
B.A. Econ., ERP
30 years of commercial, capital markets, risk, and merchant energy experience in oil & gas, power, and renewable energy sectors.
30 years of commercial, capital markets, risk, and merchant energy experience in oil & gas, power, and renewable energy sectors.

Jérôme Koelewijn
Jérôme is an advisory board member for Proton Technologies Canada who has held international leadership positions in finance, technology, and advisory: over ten years in private wealth and investment management at Morgan Stanley (officer, Swiss-based Benelux team) and Wealth Management Partners (partner, co-head institutions); and fifteen years in strategy consulting and corporate finance at Arthur D. Little (partner, co-head TMT sector) and Roland Berger (partner, co-founder Amsterdam office). Jérôme has two decades of early-stage and scale-up experience as office founder, board member, and private investor. He is an independent adviser to and investor in fin-, health- and clean-tech companies. As well as a current partner at NGEN and co-founder of the Brand Capital Fund.
Jérôme is versed in five languages, having lived in five countries and worked in the majority of EU-15 countries. He holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from IESE Barcelona and Columbia University New York.
Jérôme is versed in five languages, having lived in five countries and worked in the majority of EU-15 countries. He holds an MSc in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Delft University of Technology and an MBA from IESE Barcelona and Columbia University New York.

Michael Moszynski
A highly experienced international advertiser and business advisor, Michael is Founder and CEO of LONDON Advertising, a creative entrepreneurial firm, that has used tech to disrupt the ad industry and been awarded Agency of the Year for seven out of the last eight years. Michael has also been awarded UK CEO of the Year for the last three years as well as the Order of Merit from the Knights of Malta for his charity work

Rob Otway
Rob Otway is a professional engineer who has devoted 36 years to the construction industry. In his role as Executive Vice President for Bird Construction, Rob is responsible for all buildings and special project operations within British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Previously, he spent 25 years with PCL Construction in various executive and project management positions, including executive oversight of PCLs corporate sustainability strategy. Rob graduated from the University of Waterloo (BASc 1985) and is a recent graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D) Directors Education Program.

Pratik Shah
P.Eng, PMP, MBA
CEO and Founder of Hrim Project Consultancy Group. Pratik adds value to Protons executive council through the engineering best practices, project execution strategies, and agile principles for complex projects.
CEO and Founder of Hrim Project Consultancy Group. Pratik adds value to Protons executive council through the engineering best practices, project execution strategies, and agile principles for complex projects.

Harrie Vredenburg
Ph.D, ICD.D
Professor/Scholar on Corporate Governance, Strategy, Sustainable Development. Served as non-executive member of the boards of directors of several publicly traded and private companies.
Professor/Scholar on Corporate Governance, Strategy, Sustainable Development. Served as non-executive member of the boards of directors of several publicly traded and private companies.

Dr. Jingyi (Jacky) Wang
Ph.D, P Eng.
Proton Co-Founder. Dr. Wang has 15 years combined experience in chemical engineering and reservoir engineering with petroleum industry and research, expertise in the areas of unconventional resources recovery technology. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary.
Proton Co-Founder. Dr. Wang has 15 years combined experience in chemical engineering and reservoir engineering with petroleum industry and research, expertise in the areas of unconventional resources recovery technology. He is also a Research Associate in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary.