Songning Shen – Chairman and Managing Director of Canadian Foresight Group Limited.
Mr. Shen is a Canadian Professional Geologist with over 30 years experience in oil & gas industry including national oil companies such as CNPC, Statoil Norway and EnCana, multinational corporations such as Halliburton, Husky, Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Koch, and emerging public and private companies such as Connacher, Petrolifera, Fern, Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. and CaiTerra International Energy Corporation.
Two Canadian public companies’ stock had gone up 22-29 times within two years based on Mr. Shen’s exploration and development performance.
Mr. Shen founded Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. in 2007. The company’s value had increased from CAN$220,000 to US$1.7 Billion listed market value. Sunshine Oilsands Ltd. was the biggest IPO in Hong Kong exchange and top 15 biggest IPO in the world in 2012. Petro China, Sinopec Group, Bank of China, China Life Insurance Company Limited are the major investors and own around 35% of the outstanding shares.
Mr. Shen is recognized as being one of the discoverers of China’s biggest offshore oilfield, the SZ36-1 field and he was given an award by Chinese Government for this significant discovery.
He and his team have been responsible for defining over 7 billion boe in recoverable resources. Cumulative hydrocarbon production at all oil and gas projects brought to market by his team has exceeded 18 mm boe.
Perla Woo – Vice President of Corporate Operations
Ms. Woo is Canadian Professional Engineer, with a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Calgary. She was a Co-Founder of Sunshine Oilsands Ltd., and was Senior Vice President until September 2008 and has worked at Sunshine until 2014 in capital raise and investor relations. Ms. Woo has over 20 years experience working in the oil and gas industry in Canada in the fields of reservoir engineering, exploitation, and pressure transient analysis.
Shan Li – Vice President of Finance
Ms. Li has been the Investment Manager of the Strategic Investment Division of the Bank of China Investment Group since 2010 and previously served as the Vice-President of BOCI Asia Limited. She has been involved in numerous IPOs and major M&A transactions.
Colin Outtrim – Advisor
Colin Outtrim has over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in Canada and in 35 countries around the world and has most recently served as Senior Technical Advisor for DeGolyer and MacNaughton Canada, where he used to serve as President and Director. During 2011 to 2013, Mr. Outtrim also served on the United Nations Expert Committee on reserve and resource definitions. Mr. Outtrim is currently serving on the board of one other corporation and one not-for-profit board.