Atlas Energy

Atlas Energy is a royalty investment company which helps high-quality international e&p teams fund asset development, asset acquisitions and in the case of mature corporations, exploration.

Through a revenue-based royalty structure which is commonly used in North American Energy finance, Atlas Energy invests in international upstream production assets that have traditionally been overlooked by Tier A institutional equity providers.

Our highly-experienced management and technical teams have evaluated and in many cases operated assets in over 70 countries, have completed over $20 billion in M&A transactions and have raised more than $2 billion of public equity capital.

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The Atlas Management and Board of Directors

Our Team

Mark Hodgson

President

Mr. Hodgson holds a degree in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and has over 20 years experience working across the globe in upstream operations, business development and finance. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Sollus Health. Prior to Atlas, Mr. Hodgson was co-founder and VP, Corporate Development of Spartan Delta Corp, and held executive roles working in Canada, Albania, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, the US and the UK.

Blair Anderson

VP, Geoscience

Mr. Anderson is a seasoned Geologist with over 40 years of experience working in the international upstream sector in senior executive roles where his work has resulted in significant discoveries across multiple basins with notable success in Trinidad, Libya, Turkey and Indonesia. In his role as VP Geoscience at Atlas, Mr. Anderson brings extensive international experience through South East Asia, Mexico, South America, Caribbean, North and West Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Prior to Atlas, Mr. Anderson was VP, Corporate Development at Condor Petroleum.

Ryan Giroux

VP, Business Development

Mr. Giroux is a petroleum engineer and finance professional with over 23 years of experience working in the oil & gas industry and banking, including 17 years focused internationally. Mr. Giroux spent the past 14 years carrying out financing and advisory work for various London-based banks. During this time, he completed over 40 transactions, involving assets and projects in more than 30 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Prior to Atlas, Mr. Giroux was Director, Engineering at Societe Generale in London.

Don Kornelsen

VP, Commercial

Don Kornelsen has over 18 years experience in the corporate finance industry including over 15 years focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory within the energy industry, where he has advised on over C$14 billion of transactions. Mr. Kornelsen spent the last 12 years working within the business development team at Vermilion Energy where he focused on commercial negotiations and valuation analysis to enhance the company’s global portfolio of assets. Previous to this, he spent three years working with Standard Chartered Bank’s energy M&A advisory team, focused on transactions in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as aiding international clients with investments into the Canadian energy industry.

Richard Naden

VP, Engineering

Mr. Naden is an industry veteran with over 35 years of executive and petroleum engineering experience, working in E&P companies from startup phase through successful exits at 10 - 50,000+ boepd. With four prior VP Engineering roles and extensive technical consulting projects throughout North and Latin America, Europe, MENA, CIS and India, Mr. Naden brings the Atlas team a highly complementary set of executive and engineering skills. Most recently, an independent international petroleum engineering consultant principally focused on A&D, development, EOR and lending due diligence.

Board of Directors

Richard “Rick” McHardy

Director

Rick McHardy is one of Canada’s preeminent leaders of shareholder value creation in the Canadian energy industry over the last 15 years. Currently Mr. McHardy is the President and CEO of Logan Energy and Chairman of Spartan Delta Corp, and was the prior founder and CEO of Titan Exploration, Spartan Oil, Spartan Exploration, Spartan Energy and was the Executive Chairman of Spartan Delta Corp.

John Bookout III

Director

Mr. John F. Bookout, III is the President of JA Capital LLC, a privately-owned energy and energy transition investment company. Prior to his founding of JA Capital LLC, Mr. Bookout for 17 years was a senior leader of the Energy Practices at Apollo Global Management and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. private equity firms. Prior to working in Private Equity, Mr. Bookout spent 28 years working at McKinsey & Company. He spent most of his career at McKinsey working in the petroleum and utility industries. He held numerous leadership positions at McKinsey including serving as Managing Partner of the Los Angeles Office and the Texas Office, co-leader of the North American Energy Practice, leader of the European Energy Practice and as a member of McKinsey's Shareholders Committee. Mr. Bookout completed his career leading all industry practices at the Firm. Mr. Bookout holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Rice University and a Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Glenn McNamara

Director

Mr. McNamara holds over 40 years of experience in the international upstream space, having spent the majority of his career at Exxon working across multiple jurisdictions. He was most recently the CEO of Heritage Royalties, a multi-billion dollar privately held upstream royalty company and prior to this held positions as President of BG Canada, Exxon Canada West and Petromanas. He has experience working across South America, USA, Europe and Asia Pacific and currently serves on the boards of Parex Exploration, Whitecap Resources and PrairieSky Royalty.

Scott Price

Director

Mr. Price holds over 40 years of international upstream leadership experience across multiple jurisdictions. He was most recently CEO of Solana Resources and after successfully monetizing Solana through a sale to Gran Tierra, became a lead independent director of the company. Prior to this, Mr. Price was the CEO of Aventura, a successful startup in Trinidad which sold to BG, as well as holding multiple other senior leadership positions internationally throughout his successful career.

Contact Us

We are always looking for new opportunities to partner with high-quality International E&P teams. If you are interested in learning more about how Atlas Energy can help you accelerate your upstream development, please contact us today.

For all inquiries, please contact Mark Hodgson by email at: mhodgson@atlas-corp.ca.

We can also be found at our office in Calgary, Alberta:

Bankers Hall West
Suite 3000, 888 – Third Street SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 5C5

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