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602 - 224, 4th Ave South
Saskatoon, SK S7K 5M5
Royal Helium is currently one of the largest helium leaseholders in Canada with land that was methodically evaluated for helium potential for over two years and has been vetted by helium experts, professional geologists and engineers.
Royal Helium looks towards large exponential growth via the flywheel effect of executing multiples of producing wells and production plants based on the proof-of-concept, Steveville model. Successful, fully vertically integrated helium resource development, purification, and delivery to the end-user.
Royal Helium is currently one of the largest helium leaseholders in Canada with land that was methodically evaluated for helium potential for over two years and has been vetted by helium experts, professional geologists and engineers.
Royal’s vision is to become a leading, North American, fully vertically integrated industrial gas company, initially focused on high value gases, Helium, food-grade liquid CO2 and liquid Nitrogen.
Mr. Davidson is a resource development professional with more than a decade of continued experience in moving quality projects from greenfield exploration to production across multiple commodity types. As a founder of Royal Helium, Mr. Davidson is one of the most experienced helium exploration company executives in Canada.
A graduate of the University of Calgary (BComm), Mr. Davidson is a Chartered Professional Accountant with Certification in both Saskatchewan and Alberta. Mr. Davidson has extensive experience in the financial management and capital structuring aspects of companies in the junior resource markets in Canada. Mr. Davidson currently sits as a director for a number of junior natural resource exploration and production companies.
Mr. Young has more than 20 years of experience as an investor, advisor and operator across a range of industries. For over a decade, Mr. Young has operated with a primary focus on the natural resources space where he has invested in and advised upstream development and midstream operations across North America.
Most recently, Mr. Young was a principal at the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and preeminent private equity firms, with over $300 billion in assets. While at the Carlyle Group, Mr. Young was part of the leadership team managing over US$4 billion in natural resource investments, with a primary focus on upstream development and midstream related assets.
Prior to joining the Carlyle Group, Mr. Young was a Director of Talara Capital Management, where he led the team’s control-oriented private equity investments in the natural resources space.
During his tenure at Talara, Mr. Young represented its interests on the board of directors of multiple upstream oil and gas development companies and, most notably, led the distressed acquisition and subsequent take-private transaction of Caza Petroleum. Mr. Young led the team in building Caza Petroleum from less than 50 barrels per day of production to its current standing as a regional leader in the Delaware Basin.
Mr. Young previously held positions at leading New York based investment banks, including Perella Weinberg Partners, Kramer Capital Partners, and Houlihan Lokey.
Mr. Young is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and has frequently returned as a guest lecturer on investment topics, including control investments in the oil and gas industry.
Shayne holds a B.Sc. Honours in Geology from the University of Saskatchewan and is currently a G.I.T. with APEGS and a Professional Geologist (P.Geo). Shayne is the current Owner and President of 2Seven Energy Services Ltd. with an extensive background in wellsite & operations geology and overall workings of the Oil & Gas sector. He is also the President of East Forty Projects Inc., which is a freshwater access, exploration and production company which supports hydraulic fracturing operations in West Central Saskatchewan.
Shayne has vast experience in project management, geo-steering, geological mapping and prognosis delineation, well planning for Oil & Gas, Helium, Geothermal and Water source wells as well as wellsite supervision of hundreds of wells in the WCSB, land & property evaluations, transportation logistics, and overall business management.
Mr. Sheppard is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (BComm) and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). Mr. Sheppard has worked in the Canadian junior resource industry for the last 9 years and has an in-depth understanding of the junior natural resource markets with particular expertise in the areas of taxation and financial reporting.
John Styles is co-founder and Executive Chair of the board of the Edge group of companies, whichincludes a Regina-based engineering and geological consulting firm, Edge Engineering and Geoscience Ltd., an oilfield abandonment and reclamation specialty contractor (Edge Liability Risk Management), and an operating junior oil company with producing assets and staff located across western Canada (Edge LRM Operations Ltd.).
John has over 40 years of experience in the resource industry. He founded and/or has served on the boards of several public companies, including Reece Energy from 2007 through to its acquisition by Penn West in 2009. John was co- founder and CEO of Invictus Minerals Corporation, which staked the 97,000 acre KP-289″Legacy” potash exploration permit in 2005, and ultimately sold Invictus to Potash One (now K+S Canada) in 2008. Previously, he served in various engineering and business development roles with several domestic and international resource companies, having started his career with Gulf Canada in Edmonton in 1981.
John has been an active volunteer with APEGS (Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan), having served on the governing Council (2010-2013), and currently serves as a member of the Licensee Admissions Committee, and previously served as chair and director of the South Saskatchewan section and director of the Petroleum Society of CIM.
Spiro has been involved in the capital markets for 17 years, specializing in finance, investor awareness, marketing strategy and management consulting for Canadian listed junior companies. Mr. Kletas has previously worked in multiple roles, including having served as a CEO and Director of a public company, Corporate Development and Investor Relations, and has helped multiple companies successfully acquire financing as well as increase their liquidity. Most recently, Mr. Kletas has been a partner in Tavros Capital Partners Corp, a boutique Venture Capital firm that invests in, and consults for, early-stage growth companies. Mr. Kletas holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia.
Mr. Nawata has been part of Royal Helium for 3 years, providing project evaluation, business model development, corporate structuring and financial modeling and has spent the last nine years as a consultant with 49 North Resources. He is past president and CEO of Kapuskasing Gold and has sat on the boards of several public companies. He has over 30 years of public market experience, nine of which he spent as a licensed stockbroker focusing on financing of junior mining and oil/gas projects with Nesbitt Burns, Research Capital Corporation, and Raymond James.
John Pringle is a partner in the Saskatoon office of McKercher LLP practicing in the areas of securities law, natural resources law and corporate commercial law with a focus on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and natural resources. Mr. Pringle’s experience includes acting as counsel to issuers in more than ten initial public offerings as well as several notable mergers, acquisitions, take-overs and sales.
Mr. Kurz has over forty years of energy industry experience in the public and private markets, including serving as the Chief Operating Officer for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from December 2006 through March 2009, which was acquired by Occidental Petroleum (OXY: NYSE) in one of the largest merger and acquisitions in oil and gas history for USD $55 billion in 2019. Mr. Kurz currently serves on the public boards of several multi-billion-dollar corporations, Devon Energy (DVN: NYSE), Texas Pacific Land Corp (TPL: NYSE) and American Water Works (AWK: NYSE) where he is the non-executive independent Chairman of the Board. Mr. Kurz holds a Bachelor of Science in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1983. He is also a graduate of Harvard’s Advanced Management Program in 2008.
Mr. Davidson is a resource development professional with more than a decade of continued experience in moving quality projects from greenfield exploration to production across multiple commodity types. As a founder of Royal Helium, Mr. Davidson is one of the most experienced helium exploration company executives in Canada.
A graduate of the University of Calgary (BComm), Mr. Davidson is a Chartered Professional Accountant with Certification in both Saskatchewan and Alberta. Mr. Davidson has extensive experience in the financial management and capital structuring aspects of companies in the junior resource markets in Canada. Mr. Davidson currently sits as a director for a number of junior natural resource exploration and production companies.
Mr. Sheppard is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (BComm) and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). Mr. Sheppard has worked in the Canadian junior resource industry for the last 9 years and has an in-depth understanding of the junior natural resource markets with particular expertise in the areas of taxation and financial reporting.
Mr. Becher joined Haywood Securities Inc. in 2016 as a Managing Director focused on Special Situations. He has been actively involved in the investment industry since 1993. Mr. Becher spent eight years in retail at RBC Dominion and BMO Nesbitt Burns before pursuing merchant banking for six years with Bearbeech Capital and Becher McMahon. From 2008-2014, he served as President & CEO of Byron Capital Markets Ltd. (“Byron Capital”), an investment bank headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal and Vancouver.
Mr. Wood is the Chairman of Altona Rare Earths Limited, which is currently listing on the LSE, He is also Managing Director of Vicarage Capital Limited, an FCA registered, full-service brokerage house which provides assistance to junior resource companies, which he founded in 2003. From 2017 to 2019 Martin was the CEO of Kogi Iron Limited, an ASX listed resource company and prior to 2003 he worked in resource finance for NM Rothschild and Sons Limited and Standard Bank (London) limited.
Mr. Laberge has had a long and distinguished career in the junior resource sector, focusing on management, investor relations and financing. Mr. Laberge is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Gespeg Resources Ltd., and an independent director of Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.
Mr. Ziegler is currently the Principal Consultant – Helium, Hydrogen, Machinery, and Storage at Progress Through Technology LLC. He previously worked for over 19 years at Air Products and Chemicals (“Air Products”) of Allentown, PA, in various positions, most recently as Global Helium Operations Technical Manager.
Mr. Ziegler received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. Amongst his helium and industrial gas experience and technical proficiencies, Mr Ziegler was Technology lead for the world’s largest Helium Salt Dome Storage Cavern. He has extensive operational and design experience with gas processing equipment for extraction, purification, liquefaction, and delivery including process machinery, cryogenic distillation, partial condensation, pressure swing absorption, temperature swing absorption, membranes, chillers, dryers, acid gas sweetening, oil removal systems, guard beds, cold traps, gas bags, and transportation systems.
Previously, Mr Ziegler provided technical expertise on new projects and in support of existing operating facilities worldwide, including over one dozen helium liquefiers from the five major commercial scale suppliers, multiple upgraders, and numerous other large scale helium systems.
Mr. Weston has held numerous senior and executive positions with some of Canada’s largest oil and gas corporations and has over 40 years of industry experience. Most recently Mr. Weston was Vice President of Mineral Land at Ovintiv Inc. (previously Encana Corporation) until his retirement in 2020.
He received UH’s Natural Sciences and Mathematics Teaching Excellence Award in 2013, the UH Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, and 2019 Team Teaching Award (for founding and directing UH’s Geophysical Field Camps). Rob is a licensed geoscientist in Alberta (P. Geo.) and Texas (P.G.). He has published over 150 articles in geoscience journals and magazines.
Rob was the Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ (SEG) Distinguished Educator (presenting courses in 13 countries) and received the SEG Lifetime Membership Award. He also served as President of the Canadian SEG and received its Honorary Membership Award and Medal. He completed service as the 1st Vice President of the Geophysical Society of Houston (2000 members) and is currently Past President of the SEG. Rob has led geophysical expeditions to NASA’s High Arctic Haughton-Mars Project, Belize archaeological ruins, and post-earthquake Haiti as part of the Geoscientists Without Borders program. He is President of Sonderra, LLC – a geophysical consulting company.
Prior to the University of Houston, Dr. Stewart held various roles with Chevron’s Oil Field Research Lab, ARCO and Veritas Software.
Dr. Stewart is a professor of Geophysics at the University of Houston, where he holds the Cullen Chain in Exploration Geophysics and is also the Director of the Allied Geophysical Laboratories. Dr. Stewart holds a B.Sc. in math and physics from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in geophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”).
He received UH’s Natural Sciences and Mathematics Teaching Excellence Award in 2013, the UH Provost’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, and 2019 Team Teaching Award (for founding and directing UH’s Geophysical Field Camps). Rob is a licensed geoscientist in Alberta (P. Geo.) and Texas (P.G.). He has published over 150 articles in geoscience journals and magazines.
Rob was the Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ (SEG) Distinguished Educator (presenting courses in 13 countries) and received the SEG Lifetime Membership Award. He also served as President of the Canadian SEG and received its Honorary Membership Award and Medal. He completed service as the 1st Vice President of the Geophysical Society of Houston (2000 members) and is currently Past President of the SEG. Rob has led geophysical expeditions to NASA’s High Arctic Haughton-Mars Project, Belize archaeological ruins, and post-earthquake Haiti as part of the Geoscientists Without Borders program. He is President of Sonderra, LLC – a geophysical consulting company.
Prior to the University of Houston, Dr. Stewart held various roles with Chevron’s Oil Field Research Lab, ARCO and Veritas Software.
Corporate Governance
The Royal Helium team believes that the highest levels of social and environmental responsibility coupled with strong financial performance are the essence of a successful mining company in today’s world. To this end, the Company has implemented governance policies that will guide our activities as we work towards building a responsible and profitable helium producer.