About Us

Greg Busby

Mr. Busby is an independent businessman with over 34 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He is a professional Landman with extensive knowledge in structuring and negotiating oil and gas transactions for both private and public companies. Mr. Busby has been involved with numerous equity financings and the raising of capital for corporate mergers and acquisitions including joint ventures and prospect generation.  Mr. Busby has held key senior executive leadership roles and board positions for a number of public and private energy producing companies. Most recently, Mr. Busby held the position as President, CEO and Director of WesCan Energy Corp. for over 12 years until October 2023.

Previously, Mr. Busby was the President and CEO of CanRock Energy Corp., a junior public oil & gas company who he co-founded and advanced the company to a profitable disposition within three years. Prior thereto, he was President & CEO of Sable Energy Ltd. and Sable Energy (UK) Ltd., a private international North Sea focused E&P company.

Mr. Busby’s industry experience also includes the successful restructuring and refinancing of distressed companies that has provided exponential growth in production, reserves and positive financial earnings during his tenure. Mr. Busby is a former member of the Canadian Association of Land and Energy Professionals and has a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) degree from the University of Calgary.

Anthony Zelen

Anthony Zelen has over 25 years of experience in finance, investor relations, start-ups and corporate development. Mr. Zelen was previously a director of First Hydrogen Corp. He has served as a director and officer for a number of public companies listed both in the United States and Canada in roles relating to investor relations, public relations, financing and strategic marketing for companies in the technology, mining and oil and gas sectors. Mr. Zelen received an undergraduate degree from Simon Fraser University.

Raymond Wladichuk, P.Geo

Raymond Wladichuk, P.Geo., a British Columbia registered Professional Geoscientist, has been involved in the junior mining industry since 2011. He is a technical and managerial consultant in the natural resource, engineering, and construction industries and has held executive and director positions for a number of publicly traded exploration companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Earth Sciences and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University.

John Cassels

A Senior Executive with over 40 years of experience in the financial sector of
junior oil and gas exploration and production in Canada, the USA and Argentina.
John left Ernst & Young (then Clarkson Gordon) as a CPA, CA and embarked on a
career in financial management, which included responsibility for M&A activity,
capital markets and funding of junior and intermediate private and publicly
traded oil and gas companies listed on the TSX or NYSE. During that period, he
was a director and senior officer of 10.
Early in the new millennium he was the CFO of a merchant bank/private equity
firm. An assignment during that term was as a financial consultant to a junior oil
and gas exploration company working in Argentina.
For more than 5 years he has acted as a principal at a fractional CFO services firm
providing part-time CFO services to owners of emerging small businesses.

Daniel Jaouiche

Daniel Jaouiche has over 30 years of experience in energy strategy and M&A. Corporate development leadership roles with leading Fortune 500 energy companies and senior advisor with blue-chip consulting firms. Experience through the full cycle of transactions with deal sizes to over $100B and across the full energy value chain focusing on Energy Transition including green hydrogen and ammonia. Global professional with work experience across five continents in five languages.

Ryan Herz-Thyhsen, Ph.D.

Ryan Herz-Thyhsen is a geologist with expertise in geochemistry and oil and gas development. Prior to joining the PureWave Hydrogen team, Ryan was a geologist for Enerplus Resources where he worked to evaluate and develop resource plays in onshore basins of the United States. Ryan obtained a Ph.D. in Geoscience from the University of Wyoming and a BS in Geology from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He has received multiple awards for his research including an award by the Department of Energy for his work on water-rock interaction during metasomatic processes. Throughout his career, Ryan's focus on the energy-climate-water nexus has motivated him to develop sustainable energy solutions.

Matt Silverman

Mr. Silverman has over 45 years’ experience in petroleum exploration and production.  His efforts have been successful in finding and developing oil and natural gas reserves in Europe, Asia, and the western United States.  From 2001 to 2023, Mr. Silverman was responsible for exploration new ventures and special projects with Robert L. Bayless, Producer LLC, a private oil and gas company that is active in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains regions.

As Exploration Manager of Bayless’s affiliate Sweetpea Petroleum, he directed the company's efforts to explore for oil and gas in the Beetaloo Basin, Northern Territory, Australia.  Mr. Silverman was responsible for geologic, seismic, and environmental studies, as well as negotiations and approvals on a 7-million-acre block there.  Drilling on these and offsetting permits in Australia by several operators has demonstrated the potential of a world-class hydrocarbon province. The principal objectives in the active drilling program in this highly promising frontier area are unconventional Mesoproterozoic shale-gas reservoirs.