Swan Hills Synfuels Management is combining their extensive industry experience in a collaborative effort to develop industry-leading ISCG projects. The team is driven by environmental consciousness and the desire to develop a new and important industry for Alberta and beyond.
Martin A. Lambert is a prominent lawyer with over thirty years' experience in corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, capital funding, and structuring and financing. Martin co-founded Matco Capital with Ron Mathison in 2001 and was the partner responsible for its Swan Hills Synfuels initiative until he joined Swan Hills Synfuels on a full time basis as its CEO in October 2008.
Martin was the CEO of the Bennett Jones Law Firm prior to joining Matco Capital. Named Alberta's Business Person of the Year for 1998 by Alberta Venture Magazine, he is described in Chambers Global as a "heavy hitting M&A practitioner" and "as good as it gets in the oil patch." He has also been recognized as one of Canada's top 30 dealmakers by Canada's National Post.
Doug Shaigec is an engineer with nearly twenty years' experience in energy project development and operations, gas processing facility operations, gasification project development, and power generation business development and construction.
Doug is a founder of Swan Hills Synfuels and he has been its President since the inception of Synfuels' gasification project development efforts in 2005.
Doug formerly led TransCanada's western North America power generation development business, which developed over 350 MW of high efficiency gas-fired cogeneration in Alberta. Doug was also formerly with Shell Canada in gas processing and operations project management.
Tim Crowe, an engineer with over 20 years’ energy experience brings a unique combination of expertise in project management, regulatory affairs, and solid technical and business experience in energy project development and operations. Since joining the company in April 2007, Tim has led Swan Hills Synfuels’ efforts in securing regulatory approvals for ISCG developments and the design and execution of subsurface activities.
Tim has extensive sour gas and oil sands development experience and spent 19 years with Shell Canada prior to joining Swan Hills Synfuels.
Jack Szyszkowski is an engineer with extensive experience in energy project design, engineering, project management and execution, primarily in the field of large scale gas-fired power projects as well as gasification and polygeneration development.
Prior to joining Swan Hills Synfuels, Jack worked at TransCanada, where most recently he was the Technical Project Manager for the Belle Plaine Polygeneration (gasification) Project near Regina, Saskatchewan. Jack's experience brings not only a strong technical background and demonstrated leadership but also involvement in many "firsts" during his tenure working as engineering lead on the MacKay River Cogeneration Project.