Mr. Eden was until 2012 the CFO of Gran Tierra Energy Inc. a publicly listed international energy company. He joined Gran Tierra in January 2007 and during his tenure Gran Tierra increased production from 1,000 BOE/Day to 22,000 BOE/Day.
Mr. Eden has over 27 years of experience in executive and financial roles in the energy industry in Canada and overseas, and he has CFO experience with a variety of public companies. He also spent nine years with Nexen Inc. which included three years as Finance Manager of the company's operations in Yemen and six years in Nexen's financial reporting and special projects areas in its Canadian head office.
Mr. Eden has worked in public practice including two years as an audit manager for Coopers & Lybrand in East Africa. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Birmingham University, England, an MBA from Henley Management College/Brunel University, England, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Iain has over 30 years energy industry experience with 8 years in senior Board positions (CEO, Chairman, Managing Director) in 3 companies. Iain began his career with Total and held senior roles managing the company’s UKCS assets as well as international assets in the USA and Latin America. Iain became CEO of dual listed (UK/Canadian) Ithaca Energy in 2008 and led that company’s turnaround. He is widely networked into all major banks in the UK following both debt raising and consultancy. Iain’s skills include excellent communication, the ability to communicate broader strategy into meaningful actions, deep understanding of shareholder value dynamics and a proper and meaningful knowledge of governance and its importance.
Ian Horswill has 32 years of experience as a professional engineer in the petroleum industry in executive roles encompassing business development, project management, corporate financing, and oil and gas operations in international and domestic arenas. He has a track record of value added acquisition, exploration and development projects which has proven successful for his shareholders and companies alike.
Over the past twenty years, Ian has been in senior management of four successful energy companies in Africa and South America. His African focus included working on projects in Algeria, Gabon and Central West Africa, Mozambique, Tunisia and Tanzania. Prior to founding Cornerstone, Ian was the Chief Operating Officer and Board member of Oslo-listed Artumas Group Inc. from 2002 to 2007. His team discovered 2+ Tcf of gas and developed an innovative gas to power project in Tanzania, and an oil and gas exploration project in Mozambique. Artumas was awarded the Rovuma Onshore Area for development in Tanzania. From 1998 – 2000 Mr. Horswill was Managing Director of Operations and Engineering for First Calgary Petroleums Ltd. Prior to First Calgary, he worked with Pacalta Resources in Ecuador.
Mr. Horswill holds a B.SC. (Honors) in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is a member of APEGA (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta).
Jerry Brix has over 30 years of extensive petroleum engineering and project management in both domestic and international exploration and development projects with Gulf Oil/Chevron (1977 – 1996), Momentum Energy (1996 – 2002), Cirrus Energy (2002 – 2005) and most recently with Artumas Group (2005 – 2009). In the past 25 years he has worked and resided in Africa, including the countries of Mozambique, Tanzania, Angola, Libya, Nigeria, Botswana and Egypt. Jerry’s responsibilities have included executing exploration and development projects, long–range planning and budgets and developing business and engineering processes that improve economic and operational efficiencies. His technical expertise includes onshore and offshore seismic operations, drilling and completions, reserves management and reservoir development, oil and gas facilities construction, project and joint venture management. Jerry is a successful user of leading technologies in seismic, reservoir and drilling including using transition zone seismic, surface geochemistry, casing-while-drilling and modular facilities construction.
Jerry holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta and is a member of APEGGA (Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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