Ron Prefontaine

Mr Prefontaine has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He worked in Calgary until he was head-hunted by Santos in 1981. At Santos, he worked on their Cooper, Surat, Bowen and Canning Basin projects until 1984. Over the next 10 years he held management positions for Pancontinential Petroleum and Oil Company of Australia. Between 1994 and 2001, while consulting to the industry, he acquired petroleum permits in his companies which he sold or farmed out to Oilex, Arrow Energy, Bow Energy and QGC. He served as an Executive Director of Arrow Energy until 2005 and was a co-founder and Managing Director of Bow Energy. Mr Prefontaine's strengths are the recognition of growth assets and the management of growth.