Leadership

Mr. O'Byrne secializes in business development and creative deal structuring. He is president, director and founding principal of Crimson Energy Ltd., where he led the merger that created Crimson Oil & Gas Ltd., acquired the Bigoray-area assets out of an Alberta Energy Regulator receivership, and negotiated the company's sale to Altima Resources Inc. He previously served as president and chief executive officer of TSX Venture Exchange-listed Rockbridge Resources Inc., where he oversaw a debt restructuring and a financing and led the company through a change of business. He has also held founding director and senior land and business development roles at Storm Cat Energy, Golden Eagle Energy and others.

Mr. Zelen has served as a director and officer for a number of public companies listed both in the United States and Canada in roles relating to investor relations, public relations, financing and strategic marketing for companies in the technology, mining, and oil and gas sectors. Mr. Zelen is a director of Bigg Digital Assets Inc., a company that owns, operates and invests in cryptocurrency businesses. Mr. Zelen received a bachelor of arts from Simon Fraser University.

Mr. Parkes is registered with APEGA and Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (EGBC). He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI). Mr. Parkes spent the first decade of his career in the Corporate Finance department at a national Canadian brokerage firm and was licensed with IIROC (CIRO) in both Alberta and BC to advise and trade equities, futures and options and assisted in raising over one hundred million dollars for early-stage resource companies. Mr. Parkes has been involved in drilling over 125 oil and gas wells and overseen the creation of a NI 43-101 compliant lithium resource.