Company: Directors

hein poulus, qc

chairman

Hein is a businessman and a partner in the Vancouver office of the Stikeman Elliott law firm. His background includes: membership in McAlpine, Poulus and Hordo, a Vancouver law firm (1973 to 1979); senior management positions with Kaiser Resources (1979 to 1980), a publicly traded producer of metallurgical and thermal coal and oil and gas; and with private Kaiser companies (1980 to 1984) whose activities included coal trading, oil and gas, real estate, and professional football. He then served as a senior officer of Southeastern Capital Corporation, a Denver-based leveraged buyout group (1984 to 1990) with interests in broadcasting, petroleum product distribution, and environmental laboratories. Hein was born in Djakarta, Indonesia and schooled there and in the Netherlands. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of British Columbia and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics. 

Jason Bak

CEO and Founder

In 2003 Jason was the co-founder and CEO of Finavera Ltd. which was subsequently split into Finavera Renewables and Finavera Gas. During the first two years under Jason's leadership, he led these companies from conception through an intensive period of acquisition and growth resulting in a combined capitalization in excess of €35 million. Jason achieved this success by acquiring undervalued natural gas, wind and wave power assets and developing them to where their market value was recognized. He has led the negotiation of equity interests in a number of leading renewable energy assets, negotiated exclusive project development rights and is rapidly developing near-term commercial projects. Jason is a highly focused individual with a successful track record in developing public and private natural resource companies over the last decade. He is the former VP, Corporate Development for Tournigan Gold Corporation and head of Corporate Affairs for Strongbow Resources Inc. (now Strongbow Exploration Inc.). Jason has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Simon Fraser. 

 

David Lamont

Director

David has been in the financial services industry for over 25 years.   As a founding partner of Capital Trust, a UK based investment management and financial services boutique he has been involved in numerous financial projects.   He is also a director and significant shareholder of a number of commercial property companies. David has had a long career in arranging finance and equity funding for numerous enterprises, providing advice and mentoring to those companies with the ambition to go through large scale expansion.