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Cheryl Sandercock

Cheryl is Co-Head and a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets A&D Advisory group and has over 25 years of oil and gas experience including energy advisory, independent reserves evaluation and with a producer. She has a broad range of transaction experience in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alternatives and defense preparedness for foreign and domestic vendors and acquirers. An alumna of the Schulich School of Engineering, she currently chairs the Schulich Industry Advisory Council.

David de Vlieger

David is a Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation with Repsol Oil & Gas Canada Inc., having previously been in private practice for 15 years in the area of civil litigation and advocacy. He has extensive experience in sports law, having represented athletes, coaches, and NSO’s in various judicial review, arbitration, and disciplinary processes. David has been a board member of Swimming Natation Canada for the past five years and currently serves as its President (Chair of the Board). Swimming Canada recently embarked upon an ambitious new strategic plan – Vision 2020 – aiming to re-establish Canada as one of the top swimming nations in the world. David is also a board member of Aquatics Canada, the voice of Canada’s Olympic aquatic sports. This board represents these sports internationally within FINA, the international aquatics federation.

Geoff Thompson

A proven team oriented leader who has developed and led seven market leading companies at the President/CEO level, with a track record that includes: taking Sundial public on the Nasdaq market, the development and sale of three companies, being awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 and the national award as Canada's leading small/medium employer in 2007, the successful turnaround of a near bankrupt company and the delivery of mission critical projects worldwide.

Douglas Penner

Doug Penner CA, CIA, CFA is the President (Finance and Services) at Arcan Resources Limited since May of 2012. Prior to being the President Doug was the CFO for Arcan since 2006. Prior to being employed with Arcan Doug was the CFO of Open Range Energy Corporation and Tempest Energy Corporation. He holds a BBA degree from the University of New Brunswick, an MBA from the University of Calgary, and is a Chartered Accountant having articled with Ernst & Young.

Whitney Hughes-Plummer

Whitney is a Partner in BCG's Calgary office. She has experience across Energy, Mining, Industrial Goods, and Retail, with a specific focus in Digital Strategy and Transformation. Whitney has worked with clients across North America and in the Alberta Oil sands on a range of topics from large scale digital transformations, implementation and coaching on agile and new ways of working, development of Data Science & Machine Learning solutions, and more. Whitney holds a Bachelor in Economics from Cornell University and a MBA from the Ross School of Business.