Board of Directors

(1) Member of the Audit Committee

(2) Member of the Compensation Committee

(3) Member of the Corporate Governance, Nominating and Social Responsibility Committee

(4) Member of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee

* Denotes Committee Chair

Dr. Suresh Narine (1)(2)(3*)(4)

Executive Co-Chairman

Dr. Suresh Narine, named in 2011 as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Leaders, is originally from Guyana. He has been a Director on the CGX board since 2012, serving variously as Co-Chairman, Executive Chairman and Executive Director (Guyana) since 2013. 

Executive Chairman

Dr. Suresh Narine, named in 2011 as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Leaders, is originally from Guyana. He has been a Director on the CGX board since 2012, serving variously as Co-Chairman, Executive Chairman and Executive Director (Guyana) since 2013. Dr. Narine is a Senior Professor at Trent University, where he is cross-appointed to the Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry. He is the Director of the Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research. He is also, since 2006, the Director of Guyana’s Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Dr. Narine has an impressive academic career that includes numerous awards including the prestigious “Distinguished Researcher“ at Trent University, the “Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Science and Technology” and the “Growing Alberta Leadership Award for Innovation”. Dr. Narine has served as the Ontario Research Chair in Green Chemistry and Engineering and is currently, the NSERC/GFO/ERS Senior Research Chair in Lipid Derived Biomaterials. Dr. Narine has commercialized multiple technologies in North America and has led the development and commercialization of several brands of cosmetics and food in his native Guyana, as part of his work with the Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Dr. Narine has been awarded Guyana’s Golden Arrow of Achievement for “long and exceptional service to national development through the application of advanced science and technology”.

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Gabriel de Alba (1)(2*)

Mr. de Alba is the current Chairman of the Board of Frontera. He is a Managing Director and Partner of Catalyst Capital Group Inc. Mr. de Alba’s responsibilities at Catalyst have included acting as a director or senior officer of various Catalyst portfolio companies, including, Geneba Properties, Advantage Rent-A-Car, Gateway Casinos & Entertainment, Therapure Biopharma, World Color Press, Cable Satisfaction International/Cabovisão and Sonar Entertainment.

Co-Chairman

Mr. de Alba is the current Chairman of the Board of Frontera. He is a Managing Director and Partner of Catalyst Capital Group Inc. Mr. de Alba’s responsibilities at Catalyst have included acting as a director or senior officer of various Catalyst portfolio companies, including, Geneba Properties, Advantage Rent-A-Car, Gateway Casinos & Entertainment, Therapure Biopharma, World Color Press, Cable Satisfaction International/Cabovisão and Sonar Entertainment. Catalyst and funds managed by it have, since 2002, been involved in numerous distressed and/or under-valued situations including (in addition to the portfolio companies previously referred to) AT&T Canada, Call-Net Inc., Stelco, IMAX Corporation, Calpine Power Income Fund, Countryside Power Income Fund, Canwest, SFX Entertainment, The Fresh Market and YRC Worldwide.

Prior to joining Catalyst at its inception in 2002, Mr. de Alba worked at AT&T Latin America. Mr. de Alba was a founding member of the Bank of America International Merchant Banking Group and, prior to that, worked in Bankers Trust’s New York Merchant Banking Group. Mr. de Alba is fluent in five languages and holds a double BS in Finance and Economics from the NYU Stern School of Business, an MBA from Columbia University and has completed graduate courses in Mathematics, Information Technology and Computer Sciences at Harvard University.

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Dennis Mills (1*)(2)(3)

Mr. Mills was a director of Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. and was Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MI Developments Inc. from 2004 to 2011, and a Vice President at Magna International from 1984 to 1987. Mr. Mills served as a Member of Parliament in Canada’s federal parliament from 1988 to 2004

Professor Mark D. Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative, Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity and the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and Senior Fellow in Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy. A world-renowned expert in geomechanics, Dr. Zoback is the author of two textbooks on the subject and the author/co-author of approximately 400 technical papers. Dr. Zoback was the founder of GeoMechanics International (“GMI”), a software and consulting company that was acquired by Baker Hughes in 2008. GMI focused on wellbore stability and pore pressure prediction. Baker Hughes continues to use these technologies today. Dr. Zoback served on the National Academy of Engineering committee that investigated the Deepwater Horizon accident. He was a member of the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board Subcommittee on Shale Gas Development, a member of the Canadian Academy of Sciences Committee on Shale Gas Development and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Board on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Dr. Zoback has received a number of awards and honors including election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and the Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 2015.

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Orlando Cabrales Segovia

Mr. Orlando Cabrales Segovia has over 30 years of experience in the public and private energy sector in Colombia, including serving as President of NATURGAS, the Colombian natural gas trade association, until March 2021, as Vice-Minister of Energy of the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Colombia between 2013 and 2014, and as the President of ANH, the Colombian hydrocarbon agency from 2011 to 2013.

Mr. Orlando Cabrales Segovia has over 30 years of experience in the public and private energy sector in Colombia, including serving as President of NATURGAS, the Colombian natural gas trade association, until March 2021, as Vice-Minister of Energy of the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Colombia between 2013 and 2014, and as the President of ANH, the Colombian hydrocarbon agency from 2011 to 2013.  

Mr. Cabrales previously held senior roles at BP in Latin America. Mr Cabrales is Chief Executive Officer of Frontera Energy Corp. and member of its board of directors. In addition, he currently sits on the boards of Isagen and Conconcreto and previously served on the boards of numerous companies in Colombia including Tuscany Drilling, Cenit, and ISA.  Mr. Cabrales earned an undergraduate degree in Law from Pontificia Javeriana University and a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Boston College.

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