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MANAGEMENT
Brett Davidson
President, CEO, Director
Brett Davidson heads the Wavefront team and has more than 19 years of
experience in research, development and commercialization of products and
services in the civil, environmental and petroleum disciplines. Davidson, a
founder of Wavefront, has spent the past nine years developing the company’s
strategic direction, focusing extensively on the global commercialization of
Wavefront’s game-changing technology.
Prior to Wavefront, Davidson was principal of a consulting company,
Subterranean Technologies, which concentrated on issues surrounding salt
mine and cavern design and closeout. He began his career with Atomic Energy
of Canada in Pinawa, Manitoba, and later managed the Geomechanics Research
Group at the University of Waterloo.
D. Brad Paterson
CFO and Director
As the CFO for Wavefront, D. Brad Paterson draws on more than 15 years of
experience acting as a senior officer and director of publicly listed
companies in order to implement the company’s strategic financial direction.
Paterson’s knowledge of management and financial accounting, corporate
finance, corporate governance and regulatory markets also plays a
significant role in his ability to supervise financial management, control,
reporting, planning and investor relations.
Before joining the Wavefront team, Paterson led and consulted in the public
listing of private companies, corporate restructurings and financings,
business and assets valuations and acquisitions. In addition, he served as a
senior financial analyst for a private equity and mezzanine financing firm.
Dennis R. Minano
Director
In his capacity as director, Dennis R. Minano serves as an advisor on energy
and environmental issues for Wavefront. He also chairs an energy and
transportation group charged with formulating recommendations for future
U.S. policy. In this role, Minano builds on his previous work aimed at
crafting new public policy through several forums.
Prior to Wavefront, Minano spent 30 years at GM, where he started as an
attorney involved in marketing, product liability, energy and environmental
law. He was then appointed practice area manager of the environmental and
energy legal group and served as a vice president for GM Communications,
where he helped to integrate communication with business strategy. Minano
rounded out his career at GM serving in the capacity of vice president of
Energy and Environmental. Recently, Minano was appointed Chair of the Board
of IntegriGuard LLC, a private company in the heath care field.
Roger Kazanowski
Director
A businessman with more than 30 years of experience in the startup and
development of companies, Kazanowski began his career as an automotive
designer at Ford Motor Company. Since then, he has focused on developing his
own businesses, which include Cambridge Products – a designer and
manufacturer of full-scale product lines for FTD Florists worldwide,
Anheuser Busch and Miller Brewing Company – and Business Television Video
Systems, a fully integrated audio/video system for large retailers,
restaurant chains and corporations. Kazanowski sits on the Board of
Directors, Public Broadcast Services (PBS) in Detroit, Mich.
Walter Stelmaschuk
Director
Stelmaschuk is well versed in building companies and in the public markets.
Prior to joining Wavefront, he served as president, and later, chairman of
NQL Drilling Tools Inc. (now NQL Energy Services). Stelmaschuk also served
as the president and chairman of National Quick Lube, president of Mr. Lube
USA and vice-president of Midland Doherty Ltd.
Steven W. Percy
Chairman
Before Wavefront, Percy held several positions with The Standard Oil
Company, including manager of American flagged marine transportation,
manager of the Eastern Crude Oil division, director of operations analysis,
director of downstream strategic planning and development and director of
the executive office. Following the merger of BP and Standard Oil, Percy
served as the group treasurer of the British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and
chief executive of BP Finance International, president of BP Oil and
chairman and chief executive officer of BP America.
