Management

Murray Smith, owns Murray Smith and Associates, an energy consulting company and is a member of the Advisory Board of Hatch, a global engineering company. He serves on the Board of Williams, a Tulsa based midstream company and Critical Control a Calgary based instrumentation company.

Mr. Smith served for 12 years as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Province of Alberta and served in four different Cabinet portfolios – Energy, Economic Development, Gaming, and Labour. In January 2005, Mr. Smith served as Alberta’s Official Representative to the United States of America. He led the Alberta office in Washington, DC, until returning to Canada in the fall of 2007.

Before running for elected office in 1993, Mr. Smith was an independent owner of a number of Alberta based energy service companies including drilling fluids, service rigs, oilfield contracting and consulting services.

A graduate of the London Business School’s Senior Executive Program, Mr. Smith also holds a B.A. (Economics & Political Science) from the University of Calgary. He is also a graduate of Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan.

• Member of the Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
• Member of the Environment, Health and Safety Committee