Who We Are

Mr. Germaniuk brings extensive experience in thermal oil operations to Greenfire. Prior to joining Greenfire, Mr. Germaniuk spent eight years at Serafina Energy Ltd., a private thermal oil company, where he was an early employee and a member of the executive management team. While at Serafina, he played a critical role in organically growing thermal oil production from zero to approximately 40,000 barrels per day. Serving as the Vice President of Engineering and Health, Safety, and Environment (“HSE”), and before then as the Vice President, Subsurface, Mr. Germaniuk was accountable for drilling, completions, production and reservoir engineering, geology and geophysics, subsurface development, long range plan forecasting, and corporate HSE functions. Mr. Germaniuk’s previous experience includes management roles at Connacher Oil and Gas Limited and Canadian Natural Resources Limited, in each case focused on thermal oil operations.

Travis Belak, CPA, CA, is the Vice President, Finance of Greenfire. Mr. Belak has approximately 15 years of experience in upstream oil and gas financial reporting, corporate planning, tax, and treasury. He was most recently Corporate Controller at HWN Energy.

Mr. Trainor has over 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with the most recent 15 years spent in SAGD, including as the Chief Operating Officer at Conacher Oil and Gas from 2019-2024. He received his Bachelor of Science from Brock University and is a registered professional geologist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

Mr. Batias has over 20 years of experience in oil and gas, including 12 years spent in SAGD, primarily at Total Energies and ConocoPhillips. He received his Masters in Engineering and Fluid Mechanics at Grenoble INP – UGA and is a registered professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

Mr. Andreas has over 15 years of experience in oil and gas, including 12 years spent in SAGD at MEG Energy. He received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan and is a registered professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta.

Mr. Loebach has over 10 years of industry experience, including as an Equity Research Analyst at Credit Suisse covering Canadian Oil and Gas. Mr. Loebach holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with Distinction from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Charles Kraus is the Corporate Secretary of Greenfire Resources. Mr. Kraus is a Canadian and United States corporate lawyer with 25 years of experience in governance, capital markets, and commercial matters. Mr. Kraus has served as a senior executive, general counsel and corporate secretary of three different dual-listed public companies operating in the energy and construction industries.

Mr. Waterous founded WEF in December 2016 and is currently Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of WEF. Mr. Waterous is also the Executive Chairman and a director of Strathcona. Prior to founding WEF, Mr. Waterous served as Global Head of Investment Banking and Head of Energy and Power, North America at Scotiabank, where he was responsible for all of Scotiabank's global Equity and Advisory activities and Scotia Waterous. Mr. Waterous co-founded Waterous & Co., a predecessor firm to Scotia Waterous, in September 1991, where he was a member of the firm's Executive Committee and the head of the firm. Mr. Waterous holds an Honours Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Being in the top five percent of his class at Harvard, he was designated a Baker Scholar.

Mr. Ebbern brings significant experience as a corporate director, including at companies with SAGD assets. With greater than 40 years of oil and gas industry experience, Mr. Ebbern spent over a decade of his career in energy investment banking and capital markets. Mr. Ebbern has served as a Strategic Advisor to North West Refining Inc. ("North West Refining") since 2019. From 2012 to 2019, Mr. Ebbern served as the Chief Financial Officer of North West Refining. He also served on the board of directors of Athabasca Oil Corporation from 2018 through 2023, Repsol Canada (formerly Talisman Energy Inc.) from 2013 through 2017, and Nexen Inc. from 2011 through 2013. Mr. Ebbern holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Engineering from Queen's University and an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Mr. Hager is currently a Managing Director of WEF, a role he has served since January 2018, and a director of Strathcona Resources Ltd. ("Strathcona"). Mr. Hager previously served as Director with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and in various roles with Constellation Energy Corporation. Mr. Hager also served in a number of capacities in President George W. Bush's administration. Mr. Hager currently serves as a board member of the George W. Bush Presidential Center and Building Conservation Trust. Mr. Hager earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from Wake Forest University and a Master of Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Mr. Heald has a 30-year track record in the Canadian energy and capital markets sector with lengthy experience as a Managing Director, Investment Banking, with CIBC World Markets, HSBC Securities, Nesbitt Thomson, Deloitte and ATB Capital Markets. Mr. Heald has acted as the lead/co-lead underwriter and financial advisor on over 300 capital markets and M&A transactions representing over $20 billion of transaction value. Mr. Heald is a senior corporate finance and governance professional with broad experience in the origination, structuring, underwriting, negotiation and execution of complex transactions. Mr. Heald has frequently advised the Officers and Directors of both public and private corporations with respect to their strategic and financial objectives. He has authored numerous valuations and fairness opinions arising from related party and restructuring transactions, and has acted as an expert witness before securities regulators. Mr. Heald's credentials include a B.Sc., Honours (Queen's), M.Sc. (Alberta) in geotechnical engineering, MBA (Ivey), P. Eng. (APEGA lifetime member), CFA and ICD.D. Mr. Heald previously served as a Director of Kick Energy Corporation, Post Energy Corp. and the Alberta Economic Development Authority. Mr. Heald is a recipient of the Alberta Centennial Medal.

Mr. Kim currently is the Chief Financial Officer of WEF, a role he has served since December 2016, and a director of Strathcona. Mr. Kim previously served as President of Crescentwood Capital Corp., Pyxis Capital Inc., HAL Concepts Ltd., Graystone Corporation and as President and Director of Stonington Capital Corporation, CBOC Continental Inc. and Vice President of Finance of Unicorp Energy Corporation. Mr. Kim is a Chartered Public Accountant and holds an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

Originally from Lethbridge, Alberta where he attended University, David completed his Masters degree in law at the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. in politics and sociology at Yale University where he was a Morse fellow. He worked for McKinsey and Company for three years before going to technology startup GLG, supporting institutional investor research. He led that business internationally, and opened 15 overseas offices, driving its expansion in Europe and Asia for twelve years. He was recruited to Commonwealth Bank of Australia as head of business development and strategy for the International Bank where he was board advisor to CBA investments in Vietnam, China, India and South Africa; before being appointed Group Head of Strategy in 2017. He left banking in 2019 to work on the election of Jason Kenney as Premier of Alberta where he served as Principal Advisor to the Premier. David created the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation to secure equity financing for First Nations into energy infrastructure, and was the founding CEO of Invest Alberta Corporation, a foreign direct investment platform on whose board he still sits. David works as Board special advisor to Invest Alberta Corporation. He also serves as Chairman of Elements Global Advisors and on the board of directors for the Sovereign art foundation and as Chairman of Intelligence squared, a debate platform.

Mr. Roosth is currently a Managing Director of WEF, and a director of Strathcona. Prior to joining WEF in 2018, Mr. Roosth was a Principal on the energy team for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, where he was involved in a variety of corporate and asset-level energy and natural resources transactions over the course of six years (2012 – 2018). During his time at KKR, Mr. Roosth evaluated and executed investments across a number of different pools of capital including private equity, credit and energy real assets. Mr. Roosth has experience in oil and gas real assets, oilfield services, midstream, downstream and mining. Before joining KKR, Mr. Roosth was with TPH Partners, where he was involved in middle-market equity investments in the energy industry. Prior to TPH Partners, Mr. Roosth was with Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., where he focused primarily on strategic advisory and M&A transactions for companies in the energy industry. Mr. Roosth holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University.