Mr. Beekman graduated from the University of Alberta with an engineering degree in 1993. He has 15 years of industry experience, with the first five years spent exclusively at the field level. Previously held positions include operating, supervising and field management. During the last 10 years in Calgary, Mr. Beekman held various in-house alliance and engineering positions and worked up to operations manager with a large Canadian service company. His most recent position was as VP of Engineering with a Canadian service company.