Management
| Robert Friedland Executive Co-Chairman |
Carlos A. Cabrera Executive Co-Chairman |
| David Dyck President & Chief Operating Officer |
Gerald Schiefelbein Chief Financial Officer |
| Patrick Chua Executive Vice President |
Gerald Moench Executive Vice President |
| Greg Phaneuf Executive Vice President, Corporate Development |
Michael Silverman Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer |
| Ed Veith Executive Vice President, Upstream |
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Executive Co-Chairman A co-founder of Ivanhoe Energy, Robert Friedland is an international financier who has been associated with international resource and technology ventures for 25 years. Mr. Friedland is in the vanguard of North American natural-resource sector leaders who have pioneered business links in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region during the past 20 years. Mr. Friedland is also Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family's private company that specializes in venture capital and project financing from bases in Singapore and Beijing. Under his leadership, Ivanhoe executives and affiliated benefiting companies have raised several billion dollars on international capital markets since 1993. As the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines, Mr. Friedland has directed the assembly by Ivanhoe Mines of a portfolio of interests in several countries during the past 12 years. Ivanhoe's core asset is the 12-kilometre-long (7.5-mile) chain of copper-gold deposits discovered at Oyu Tolgoi in southern Mongolia. Oyu Tolgoi, within 80 kilometres of the Mongolia-China border, is the world's largest and highest-grade copper-gold mine development project. |
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Executive Co-Chairman Mr. Cabrera is the Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Energy. He is also the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute of Low Carbon and Clean Energy (NICE) based in Beijing, China; and the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of UOP LLC, a Honeywell company. Mr. Cabrera serves as a Distinguished Associate to the World Energy Consultancy Firm FACTS, and serves on the Global Advisory Board of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. During Mr. Cabrera's 35 years in the refining and petrochemicals industry, he has been granted seven U.S. patents, authored numerous publications and frequently serves on industry panels as a recognized business and technical leader. Additionally, Mr. Cabrera has received numerous awards. In 2007 he received the Fuels and Petrochemicals Division Leadership Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, in recognition of his contributions to the industry. In 2008 he received Honeywell's Senior Leadership Award, the company's highest honor for Honeywell leaders, and in 2009 he was named to the ranks of the Executive Corporate Elite chosen by the California-based Hispanic Business Magazine. Mr. Cabrera, a member of the Global Advisory Board of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago. |
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President & Chief Operating Officer David Dyck is leading Ivanhoe Energy as the company advances its exploration and development projects in Canada, Ecuador, and Asia, progresses the commercialization of its HTL upgrading process, and pursues other business development opportunities worldwide. He joined the company in October 2009, as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Energy Canada to spearhead the Tamarack Project and other heavy oil growth initiatives in Western Canada and was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of Ivanhoe Energy in May 2010. Prior to joining Ivanhoe Energy, Mr. Dyck was CEO of LeaRidge Capital, where he provided financial advisory services to numerous companies in the energy and service sectors, guiding the successful completion of a series of financing transactions and restructurings totaling $1.1 billion. From 2000 to 2007, Mr. Dyck was Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer with Western Oil Sands a Calgary-based heavy oil producer. David led a series of debt and equity financings for Western totaling $3.5 billion and led the team that concluded the sale of the company to Marathon Oil Corporation through a $7.1 billion plan of arrangement. Mr. Dyck brings to Ivanhoe Energy over 25 years of broad experience in the oil and gas sector in management, finance and business development, with specific experience in heavy oil and management of large projects. |
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Chief Financial Officer Gerald Schiefelbein was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Ivanhoe Energy in November 2009. He brings 23 years of finance experience in the international oil and gas industry, having worked in North America, Europe and the Middle East with the BP Group and Amoco. Immediately prior to joining Ivanhoe Energy, Mr. Schiefelbein was Chief Financial Officer with Chicago-based BP Integrated Supply & Trading, where he led the finance department for BP's crude and oil-products supply and trading operations in the Americas. He has substantial finance and control experience throughout the exploration and production value chain, including exploration bidding, production operations, gas plants, pipelines and supply and trading operations. In addition, he is highly experienced with merging companies and operations. Mr. Schiefelbein holds an Undergraduate Degree in Business from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Masters in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, in Illinois. |
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Executive Vice President Mr. Patrick Chua has been Co-Chairman, Sunwing Energy Ltd. since 1995 and Executive Vice President of Ivanhoe Energy Inc. since 2000. Mr. Chua spent the early years of his career evaluating oil and gas assets and conducting economic analysis. Since 1992, he has shifted his career focus to China. Under his leadership, Sunwing Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ivanhoe Energy, signed three production-sharing contracts with the Chinese government to develop proven oil and gas reserves in China. Mr. Chua has been a member of CIM (Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum) since 1975 and is the recipient of the Petroleum Society Fellowship Award in both 1980-81 and 1981-82. He served in many executive positions with the Petroleum Society of Canada and was the Chairman of the Calgary Section in 1992-93. He has been a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Beijing Chaoyang District since December 2006. Mr. Chua holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Alberta and commenced his career in the petroleum industry in Canada in 1976. |
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Executive Vice President Gerald Moench is President and Director of Sunwing Energy Ltd, the company's Asian-focused subsidiary and an Executive Vice President of Ivanhoe Energy. Gerald has over 40 years of operating and management experience, 28 of which have been focused in Southeast Asia and China, and most recently over 14 years directly in China. He has been involved in the development of Sunwing Energy Ltd. since 1996 and has overall responsibility for the operating functions of Sunwing including production-sharing contract negotiation, contract execution and government and corporate issues. He has held various senior management positions with Canadian and overseas companies specializing in drilling, production, and completion operations and has been involved in operations in Australia, Indonesia, and China. Mr. Moench holds a Diploma in Petroleum Technology from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. |
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Executive Vice President, Corporate Development Greg Phaneuf is responsible for the overall approach and execution on Ivanhoe Energy's existing corporate development projects, as well pursuing new corporate development and financing initiatives. Greg also leads Ivanhoe's Investor Relations and Communications Department and is a key spokesperson in dealing with the investment community. Greg has 20 years of related experience which includes Vice President, Corporate Development, for The Churchill Corporation where he led a $390 million corporate acquisition, as well as leading the associated $200 million equity and convertible debenture financing and a new $200 million revolving credit facility. Prior to joining Churchill, Greg was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a private energy resource and development company and Treasurer for Western Oil Sands, where he actively participated in that company's financings, M&A activities and risk management functions. Greg was an integral member of the deal team associated with Western Oil Sands $7 billion divestiture to Marathon Corporation in 2007. Mr. Phaneuf holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst designations. |
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Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Dr. Mike Silverman joined Ivanhoe in 2007 from Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) and is responsible for all technical aspects of Ivanhoe Energy's proprietary heavy oil upgrading process (HTL). This includes interfacing with leading engineering firms in the design of commercial HTL installations, technology development and intellectual property management. Dr. Silverman has almost 30 years of experience in technology development and management, including the commercialization and marketing of new technologies, and is a leading expert in the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes. His roles at KBR included Vice President of Petrochemicals, where he was responsible for all aspects of the petrochemicals technology portfolio, and Director of KBR's Technology Centre in Houston, a state-of-the-art facility hosting pilot plants that support all of KBR's refining and petrochemical technology development. Prior to joining KBR, Dr. Silverman was the Manager of Technology Development for Stone & Webster, Inc. where he managed all aspects of technology development in the refining business, including FCC's and several heavy oil upgrading technologies. Earlier experience included the management of fluid catalytic cracking for Tenneco Oil Company, and an assistant professorship in Chemistry at Rutgers University. Dr. Silverman holds a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brown University. |
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Executive Vice President, Upstream Mr. Ed Veith has over 25 years of experience in the oil industry with a focus on heavy oil recovery techniques. Mr. Veith joined Ivanhoe Energy in 2001 from Aera Energy, a California joint venture of Shell and ExxonMobil, where he had responsibility for heavy oil development and operations in the giant Belridge and Cymric heavy oil fields in California. Ed managed thermal horizontal and vertical well development projects using state of the art reservoir management techniques and utilized advanced 3-D reservoir visualization methods to integrate complex data sets. He planned new project expansions and investigated new development scenarios using reservoir simulation and advanced economic modeling. Ed previously worked with Insight Energy, LLC, Bechtel and Williams Brothers. As President of Insight Energy, LLC, Mr. Veith evaluated major oil fields for acquisition and joint ventures. Mr. Veith holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma, a MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Professional Engineers license in the state of California. |
