About Logan

Richard F. McHardy has been a founder of several public oil and gas companies and has extensive experience in leadership roles. Mr. McHardy was a co-founder and the Executive Chairman of Spartan Delta from December 2019 until July 2023 and remains as the Chairman. Prior thereto, Mr. McHardy was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Spartan Energy, Spartan Oil and Spartan Exploration. Previously, Mr. McHardy was the President and a director of Titan Exploration. In addition, Mr. McHardy has served as a board member of, and as corporate secretary to, several other public and private companies. Prior to founding Titan, Mr. McHardy was a partner at one of Canada’s largest national law firms, where he practiced securities and corporate law. Mr. McHardy has over 28 years of experience in all aspects of securities and mergers and acquisitions. He has a B.Comm (Finance) and LLB from the University of Saskatchewan.

Brendan Paton is Professional Engineer with over 13 years exploration, development and acquisition experience. Mr. Paton was part of the founding management team of Spartan Delta from the initial recapitalization in 2019 through to the reorganization and spin-out of Logan in July 2023, serving as Vice President, Engineering and Manager, Engineering. He brings technical expertise in building unconventional assets both organically and through acquisitions. Prior to Spartan Delta, Mr. Paton was the principle of a private Montney land company. Prior thereto, Mr. Paton held a variety of engineering roles at Shell Canada working across the Montney and Duvernay play fairways and held roles in Shell’s conventional business unit, business development team and exploration team. Mr. Paton holds a B.ASc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and is a member of APEGA.

Ashley Hohm is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 15 years of management, accounting and corporate finance experience. Ashley was part of the founding management team of Spartan Delta from the initial recapitalization in 2019 through to the reorganization and spin-out of Logan in July 2023, serving as Vice President, Finance and Controller. She brings extensive experience in fast paced, high growth environments with expertise in public company financial & securities reporting, budgeting, acquisition integration and business process optimization. Ashley served as Vice President, Finance of Kelt Exploration from 2016 to 2018 and as Controller from Kelt’s inception following its spin-out from Celtic Exploration in 2013. Prior to joining Celtic as Manager of Financial Reporting in 2011, she worked in the audit and assurance practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ashley graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Commerce degree with distinction.

Craig Martin is a Professional Engineer with 17 years of industry experience. Mr. Martin was part of the founding management team of Spartan Delta from the initial recapitalization in 2019 through to the reorganization and spin-out of Logan in June 2023, serving as Vice President, Operations where he oversaw growth of the company from inception to over 80,000 boe/d.  Prior thereto, he held the role of Manager, Drilling and Completions and various Operational and Production roles with Spartan Energy until its sale to Vermilion Energy in 2018. Prior thereto, Mr. Martin held the role of Operations Engineer with Spartan Oil until its sale to Bonterra Energy in 2013. Preceding that, Mr. Martin held various operational and field roles with Suncor and Weatherford. Mr. Martin holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Dalhousie University and is an active member of APEGA.

Victoria Biersteker is a professional geologist with over 20 years of industry experience, specializing in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs in North America. Victoria most recently served as the Montney Geoscience Manager at Spartan Delta and prior thereto as the Exploration Manager of Velvet Energy. Prior thereto, Victoria held senior roles at Saguaro Resources, Shell Canada, and Encana. Victoria holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology and a Master’s of Geology with a focus in Geochemistry from The University of Calgary. She actively coauthors publications, and is an active member of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), the Engineers, Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC), and the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for Geoscience BC.

Dylan Van Brunt is a Professional Engineer with 16 years of industry experience, most recently as Montney Exploitation Manager at Spartan Delta Corp. Before joining Spartan Delta, he held the role of Asset Manager at Velvet Energy with a focus on growing the company’s oil weighted Montney business. Prior thereto, Mr. Van Brunt held various positions at Canadian Natural Resources and Talisman Energy including Exploitation, Drilling and field based Operations Engineering roles. Mr. Van Brunt graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with distinction from the University of Calgary, holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and is a member of APEGA.

Wayne Ellis is a professional Land Negotiator with over 15 years of diverse oil and gas experience primarily focused on mineral land negotiations, acquisitions, and divestments. Most recently he served as Manager, Land at Spartan Delta. Prior to joining Spartan, Mr. Ellis held a senior level Land Negotiations role at Crescent Point Energy. Prior thereto, he held mineral land positions of increasing responsibility at both junior and intermediate sized oil and gas companies. Mr. Ellis holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Calgary and is an active member of the Canadian Association of Land and Energy Professionals.

Linda Brown is Chartered Professional Accountant with over 10 years of financial reporting experience, primarily with publicly listed companies in the oil and gas sector. Most recently Linda was the Manager, Financial Reporting with Spartan Delta. Prior to joining Spartan Delta in 2020, Linda was the Manager of Financial Reporting with Bellatrix Exploration. She also held various roles in the audit practice of KPMG, including Manager, Audit, prior to joining Bellatrix in 2014. Linda holds a Bachelor of Commerce with distinction from the University of Alberta.

Dr. Fotis Kalantzis is the President, CEO, Director and co-founder of Spartan Delta. He has been a co-founder of several public companies and has over 25 years of experience in oil and gas exploration and development in senior technical and leadership positions. Dr. Kalantzis was co-founder and Senior Vice President, Exploration of Spartan Energy, and co-founder and Vice President, Exploration of Spartan Oil and of Spartan Exploration. Prior thereto, Dr. Kalantzis was the Exploration Manager at Innova Exploration. He also held technical positions at Petro-Canada, Saudi Aramco, Suncor Energy, Wascana Energy, Home Oil and Mobil Oil in connection with oil and gas exploration and development in Canada and internationally. Dr. Kalantzis holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a Diploma in Environmental Physics from Aristotle University, an M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics.

Richard F. McHardy has been a founder of several public oil and gas companies and has extensive experience in leadership roles. Mr. McHardy was a co-founder and the Executive Chairman of Spartan Delta from December 2019 until July 2023 and remains as the Chairman. Prior thereto, Mr. McHardy was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Spartan Energy, Spartan Oil and Spartan Exploration. Previously, Mr. McHardy was the President and a director of Titan Exploration. In addition, Mr. McHardy has served as a board member of, and as corporate secretary to, several other public and private companies. Prior to founding Titan, Mr. McHardy was a partner at one of Canada’s largest national law firms, where he practiced securities and corporate law. Mr. McHardy has over 28 years of experience in all aspects of securities and mergers and acquisitions. He has a B.Comm (Finance) and LLB from the University of Saskatchewan.

Geri Greenall is a capital markets executive and is currently the CFO of Spartan Delta, where she was a founding member of the management team. Prior thereto Ms. Greenall co-founded and was a Portfolio Manager and Chief Financial Officer at Camber Capital, a fund manager offering private client and institutional fund management services. Ms. Greenall has a strong background in both public equity analysis and commodity trading. Ms. Greenall is currently a Director of Lycos Energy and former Lead Independent Director of Kelt Exploration. Ms. Greenall holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the University of Calgary as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst and Institute of Corporate Directors designations. Ms. Greenall also holds the FSA Level 1 Credential from the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board.

Don Archibald is an independent businessman and the President of Cypress Energy Corp, a private investment company. Mr. Archibald is currently a director of Spartan Delta, Petronas Canada, Willow Biosciences and Chairman of Panorama Mountain Village. He also serves on the advisory boards of Palisade Capital and the University of Calgary UCEED Energy Fund. Mr. Archibald brings extensive energy sector and financial markets expertise and has previously served on the boards of numerous public and private energy companies including Spartan Energy, Spartan Oil, Spartan Exploration, Serafina Energy and Cequence Energy. Previously, Mr. Archibald was the Chairman and CEO of Cyries Energy and was the President and CEO of both Cequel Energy and Cypress Energy. He holds a Bachelors of Commerce with distinction from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the Ivey Business School.

Reginald (Reg) Greenslade is an independent businessman and a director of numerous private and public entities including of Spartan Delta. Mr. Greenslade is a former director and committee member of numerous public issuers, including Spartan Energy, Spartan Oil and Spartan Exploration. Mr. Greenslade has held senior executive positions with a number of public and private issuers, including roles as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Big Horn Resources Ltd., Enterra Energy, Enterra Energy Trust, and JED Oil, and as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Tuscany International Drilling. Mr. Greenslade holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Industrial and Management Engineering from Montana State University.

Patrick Ward is currently the President, CEO and director of Aqua Solutions, a private, green, mid-stream company. Previously, he was the founder, director, President and CEO of Painted Pony Energy from May 2007 to October 2020, when the Corporation was acquired by Canadian Natural Resources. Previously, Mr. Ward served as a director of Striker Exploration and Elkwater Resources. Prior thereto, Mr. Ward co-founded Chowade Energy which merged into Innova Exploration where he served as Vice President, Exploration. Mr. Ward holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology with honours from the University of Calgary. He is registered as a Life Member, Geologist with APEGA.

Ron Hozjan is a senior financial officer and CPA with extensive oil and gas experience. Since January 2020, Mr. Hozjan has been the Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Aureus Energy Services Inc, a private water midstream company. Prior thereto, he co-founded Tamarack Valley Energy Ltd. and was the Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer from June 2010 until January 2020. Previously Mr. Hozjan has held executive positions with Vaquero Energy Ltd., Vaquero Petroleum inc. and Storm Energy Corp. Mr. Hozjan currently is a director of the following public issuers Tenth Avenue Petroleum, Carbeeza, Nova Cannabis and Target Capital.