Team
- Massimo M. Geremia, President & CEO
- Founder of Manitok Energy Inc. in 2005; previously with Birchcliff Energy Ltd., Equatorial Energy Inc. & Boardwalk Equities Inc. Mr. Geremia has 21 years of experience in the Oil & Gas, Finance, and Real Estate industries; the last 10 years exclusively in the Oil & Gas sector.
- Tim de Freitas, Ph. D., Vice President, Exploration & COO
- Founder of Manitok in 2005; Dr. De Freitas earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in geosciences from the Universities of Toronto, Western Ontario, and Ottawa, respectively. In 1991, he entered into a post doctorial industrial fellowship focusing on circumpolar regional geoscience. After several years of Arctic work, he moved to Imperial Oil, then Nexen, to work on steam assisted bitumen recovery, structural geoscience, and conventional heavy oil. Since 1999, Dr. De Freitas has worked at British Gas International and Talisman Energy, in various technical and managerial capacities in foothills exploration and development teams. Dr. De Freitas is responsible for the discovery of many oil and gas pools in the unstructured Plains and in the complex structured Foothills of western Canada; he also gained a reputation as a technical lead in company asset groups.
- Robert Dion, CA., Vice President Finance & CFO
- Mr. Dion has 20 years of financial experience in the petroleum industry holding various managerial positions during that time. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan, with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1988 and received his Chartered Accountant designation in 1991 with the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand. Most recently, Mr. Dion was Finance Manager at Compton Petroleum Corporation from September 2003 to January 2010 where he was involved in the accounting, treasury and taxation functions. During his time at Compton, he was also involved in the issuance of debt and equity securities, corporate acquisitions and restructuring. Prior to that, Mr. Dion held various senior financial positions at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Rio Alto Exploration Ltd. and Nexen Inc.
- Dorothy Else, BSc., Vice President, Land
- Ms. Else received a Bachelor of Science degree (Honours) from the University of Calgary in 1978 and started her career that year as a landman for Getty Oil Company, working in the foothills of Alberta and British Columbia. Ms. Else spent 10 years from 1992-2002 at the Enerplus Group of Companies, first as Land Manager and later as Vice President, Land. As Vice President, Land Ms. Else was intimately involved in both pre and post acquisition issues including negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, title reviews, closing documentation, post closing asset integration. After leaving Enerplus in 2002, Ms. Else has acted as an independent consultant for a number of companies, both large and small clients. Ms. Else has been consulting to Manitok since 2005 on a part time basis, providing assistance for Manitok’s land related activities. Ms. Else is an active member of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Landmen.
- Bob Quartero, M.Sc., P.Geol., Business Development Manager
- Mr. Quartero has over 30 years of industry experience; 21 years in the foothills with Talisman Energy. He is well known for his ability to find hydrocarbons in the Canadian thrustbelt. Mr. Quartero has tested more than 200 prospects in the foothills and has found about 2 Tcf of natural gas reserves in a variety of structured plays. He pioneered horizontal drilling concepts in the Alberta foothills in the 1990’s which provided Talisman a significant success advantage over its competitors. As a technical lead and senior manager at Talisman, he played a significant role in growing their foothills production from less than 10MMcf/day to more than 350MMcf/day. As a foothills District Manager at Talisman, he assembled and led a world class technical team and managed budgets in excess of $300 million. Mr. Quartero believes strongly in the foothills advantage and is pleased to bring his innovation and expertise to the Manitok Energy team.
- Robert Brown, M.Sc., Geoscience Manager, Plains
- Mr. Brown earned his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degree in geoscience from the University of Saskatchewan and Queen’s University, respectively. From 1998 to 2001, as a geologist with Vermilion Resources, he was part of the exploration and development team that saw Vermilion’s domestic production grow from ~2,200 boe/d to ~14,000 boe/d and total market cap exceed $800mm. From 2001-2009, as an independent consultant specializing in both exploration and reservoir characterization, Mr. Brown worked closely with technical teams from over 20 successful junior and senior oil and gas companies, including several foothills operators. Mr. Brown has over 14 years of industry experience, and more than 9 years of reservoir characterization experience in the foothills with Talisman Energy, British Gas International and Manitok.
- Greg Feltham, M.Sc., Geoscience Manager, Foothills
- Mr. Feltham received his B.Sc. degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland as well as an M.Sc. degree in structural geology from the University of Calgary. Since 2002, Mr. Feltham worked with Talisman Energy Inc. in their Canadian foothills groups, where he was highly regarded for his technical ability, strong work ethic, and large reserve adds in a host of complex structured plays, including deep carbonate targets and stacked multi-zone, shallow reservoirs. In addition to the domestic foothills work, Mr. Feltham’s technical competence in structural geoscience earned him a two year assignment in Talisman’s SE Asia group. Mr. Feltham was involved in many foothills drilling operations in technically challenging, structured and fractured reservoirs.
- Tavis Carlson, C.A., Controller
- Robert Eirikson, Senior Drilling Manager
- Mr. Eirikson has more than 34 years of drilling operational experience on wells ranging in depth from 300 to 4600m (sour, vertical, directional, and HZ) in Canada and overseas. He graduated from NAIT, Petroleum Resources (Honors) in 1975 and since has held various drilling related positions. His Canadian foothills experience was obtained working in drilling departments at Gulf Oil and Talisman Energy Inc. for a total of 15 years. Internationally, Mr. Eirikson has held positions and provided services ranging from drilling planning, management to well completion and service in Libya, Thailand, and China.