Incoming President (President-Elect) Your 2020 Candidates APEGA ELECTION Lisa Doig, P.Eng.* • Executive with experience across the energy industry from petrochemicals and oil and natural gas, to electricity • Skilled in in leading large and small teams, bridging the technical/business gap to work collaboratively to develop and commercialize new clean technology • Experience on APEGA Council including APEGA’s Governance and Audit committees, as well as Engineers Canada, and industry and community board work Jennifer Enns, P.Eng.* • Proven, practical, and change-oriented leader committed to quality and sustainable professional practice, with engineering and management experience in the public and private sectors • Strategic thinker with broad service to the professions, including APEGA Council, Audit Committee, Policy & Standards Task Force, Practice Review Board, and the Consulting Engineers of Alberta • Extensive community service including schools, regional and national science fairs, science journalism, Alberta Association of Architects, and Schulich School of Engineering Faculty Council Brian Pearse, P.Eng.* • Vice-president, president, CEO, and chief business officer experience in a major consulting engineering firm, working his way up from various positions including site inspector, design engineer, and engineering manager • Experience overseeing multi-disciplinary teams involved in civil, environmental, and geotechnical engineering, along with surveying, historical resources, and land acquisition • Former vice-president and councillor for APEGA, and now working part-time with an Indigenous collaborative assisting First Nations with project completion
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Councillor Muyiwa Akinyosoye, P.Eng. • 23 years of oil and gas experience, primarily in facilities, project, and construction management, at home and in South America and Africa • Leadership experience that includes managing projects worth more than $2 billion • Increasing responsibilities through major oil and gas players, reaching current role of Vice President, Major Capital Projects, Gran Tierra Energy Margaret Allan, P.Eng., P.Geo.* • Environmental experience since 1987, an engineer, geoscientist, and mentor, with projects involving contaminated site assessment and remediation, risk assessment, liability management, environmental compliance • Roles as consultant, sole proprietor, and principal; author of scientific documents for federal government and peer- reviewed journals • Volunteer experience on APEGA Investigative Committee and moderating APEGA’s ethics seminar; an appointed member of a municipal subdivision and development appeal board; member of a trail development committee advancing sustainable recreation opportunities Joseph Amalraj, P.Eng.* • Nearly four decades of global engineering experience in various capacities, including subject-matter expert, technical leader, feasibility study lead and member, and senior investigator of safety and reliability incidents • APEGA volunteer service on the Board of Examiners, as a mentor in the mentoring program, and on the Fort McMurray Branch executive from 2002 • Professional accomplishments including a joint patent, and lead and co-authorship of technical publications John Duhault, P.Geo. • 40-plus years professional experience as entrepreneurial geoscientist in oil and gas discovery, development, risk mitigation
RaeAnne Leach, P.Eng.* • 13-plus years of experience in civil and municipal engineering in the Peace Country, including residential, commercial, and industrial design, stormwater management, hydrological analysis, and planning • APEGA service as a Councillor and held positions on the Peace Region Branch Executive, including chair • Active volunteer for elementary science nights and the Peace Country Science Olympics, and through delivery of career presentations to high school students Paige Mamer, P.Geo. • Business development manager in the energy services industry who is expanding products and analytics services in the Canadian market • Background is geology, geophysics, and geomechanics, working up from junior to senior positions • Technical society and industry organization experience, including organizer and chair of the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources Induced Seismicity Forum, industry advisory board member of University of Calgary’s Microseismic Industry Consortium, and regular speaker with the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists and others Bernd Manz, P.Eng. • 30-plus years of experience including executive-level leadership of organizations in the creation, implemen- tation, and evaluation of strategic planning, talent and resource management, and achievement of board- approved goals and objectives • Recent CEO experience leading a full-service utility corporation, plus public sector municipal experience as a director • APEGA experience as Environment Committee mem- ber and member of the Peace River Branch executive, and governance experience as board member of vari- ous non-profit organizations
• President, principal geoscience consultant for Starbird Enterprises, a Calgary consulting and advisory company, with direct ownership over data analysis and interpretation, team training and mentoring, and consulting to oil and gas organizations • Past president Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, past chair Prairie Action Foundation (researching reducing the cycle of family and child abuse), past president of Scenic Sands Community Association Darren Hardy, P.Eng.* • Energy executive with business training and 30 years of safe, responsible operations and leadership experience, along with a history of building strong and cohesive teams • Strategic experience as a senior strategic advisor and senior vice-president of operations with major oil sands players • APEGA Council member and chair of its Audit Committee, past director with the Alberta Chamber of Resources, and board member for the Bow View Ringette Association (VP of coaching development) Lorna Harron, P.Eng.* • 20-plus years of experience in oil and gas, and now president of her own consulting company, Harron Risk Management Ltd. • Experience in stakeholder relationships, talent management and competency development, strategic planning, leadership, project management and development, interacting with regulatory bodies, and more • Past chair of the Women in APEGA Strategic Advisory Committee Geoffrey Kneller, P.Eng.* • 24 years of professional engineering experience in oil and gas, high tech, municipal infrastructure, and public service, recently joining TC Energy in pipeline integrity engineering • Seven years of regulatory experience as an APEGA volunteer, currently chair of the Enforcement Review Committee • Professional leadership and execution experience as a Canadian Armed Forces reservist
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