At enSift we have created a team that combines cutting edge tech chops with decades of industry specific domain expertise. This allows us to listen first and thoughtfully respond to the needs of our customers as they deal with the operational challenges brought upon by a very fast changing world.
Leadership
Mark is the Co-Founder and CEO of enSift Corp. where he leads a diverse team of talented developers, engineers and data scientists who have come together to solve some of the most overlooked and misunderstood problems faced by industry today. A graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Mark began his career in the energy sector with Petro-Canada. Later Mark went on to co-found one of the oil and gas sectors first regulatory risk management firms focused on volume recognition and compliance reporting for publicly traded major oil and gas producers throughout North America, Europe, Africa and the Asia Pacific regions. In 2011 he was introduced to the software world where he designed and launched an award winning compliance management platform for oil and gas, which for fans of HBO's Silicon Valley, was called PIDE Piper.
A Co-Founder of enSift Corp. Logan brings an amazingly diverse background that draws upon his experience and understanding of upstream regulatory compliance, where he has led numerous initiatives as a project manager. In addition to domain specific expertise, as an artist, photographer and touring musician, Logan brings a thoughtful eye to his work as he strives to reimagine product design and user experience for a new generation of young connected professionals. A strong proponent of "Practice What You Preach", Logan has worked hard to promote the ideal that work and life can co-exist elegantly in a connected world, as evidenced recently as he led the enSift design team remotely, while playing to sold out shows on a 30 date European tour with his band.
As a Co-Founder of enSift, Bryan leads a team of developers and engineers that are literally the beating heart of enSift's ClearCompliance platform that is the fastest growing compliance management application in the sector. After graduating Computer Engineering at SAIT, Bryan began his career at Nortel working on early machine vision applications. Later transitioning to oil and gas he focused himself in the world of energy asset retirement and liability management, where he and his team have worked to elevate the ClearCompliance application to “must have” status for operators of more than 18% of Canada’s oil and gas infrastructure.
Brian is the Executive Director, Sales for North America where he lead’s enSift's Customer Success and Enterprise Sales groups in both Canada and the USA.
He began his career in the energy sector with geologic Systems, followed by successful sales and leadership roles with Seismic-Micro Technology(IHS), Halliburton and 3esi-Enersight.
When not working on bringing awareness of the enSift purpose-driven technology solutions to the oil and gas sector, he spends his time with family, enjoying the mountains, and cooking for friends.
A software industry veteran with over twenty years experience, Steve has worked for both small start ups and large enterprise companies. Steve spent the last decade as a software engineering manager growing a global Cloud protection platform for the security giant Symantec in Mountain View, California. In addition to leading enSift's Devops and Security functions, Steve will also be overseeing enSift's Calgary based CS Internship Program that is seeking to cultivate a new generation of computer science graduates from Calgary based programs. An outdoor enthusiast, Steve and his family are very excited to be based in Calgary where they look forward to spending a lot of time in the mountains of nearby Banff National Park.
As an accomplished software developer, Steve brings nearly twenty years of experience to the enSift team across a wide variety of domains including telecom, transportation, real estate and oil and gas. Steve's real-world, full-stack, and cross-platform know-how, building software applications for web, desktop, and mobile environments provides a solid foundation in the expansion of the ClearCompliance platform to include comprehensive end-to-end Fugitive Emissions Management. Steve is a huge proponent of pragmatism, and strives to uphold Joel Spolsky's motto, to be a developer who is "smart and gets things done".
Mike is a respected thought leader in the field of applied machine learning for power system predictive analytics - an electrical engineer by trade with strong analytical skills and advanced knowledge in power systems planning, operations and optimization, stochastic programming, SCADA systems, relational database systems and hyper parameter optimization of machine learning models. Mike is a graduate of McGill University where he attained his PhD in Electrical Engineering, which he leveraged as a specialist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), working as part of a team that developed the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model.
Support
Clinton Galbraith
Onboarding
Scott Lafoy
Mobile Development
Natalie Henderson
Reclamations
Advisory Board
Michael Ritter
Board Member
Mr. Ritter is the President of Hexagon Positioning Intelligence, a global technology leader, pioneering end-to-end solutions for assured positioning on land, sea, and air. Hexagon’s Positioning Intelligence division includes leading brands NovAtel, VERIPOS and AutonomouStuff whose combined technology and solutions are critical to precision agriculture, defense, automotive, autonomous-transportation, marine, survey, oil and gas and many other applications deployed across the globe. Prior to joining Hexagon PI Mr. Ritter held the position of President and CEO of NovAtel, whose technologies focus on GNSS and INS (Inertial Navigation Systems), including global corrections services, anti-jamming and anti-spoofing, as well as advanced algorithms for specialized applications.
Dan Erhardt
Board Member
Mr. Erhardt is the President and CEO of Arcus Power, a global leader in Smart Grid Predictive Analytics and the fast growing Intelligent Power Modelling field. A dedicated power market professional, Mr. Erhardt is widely regarded as a key thought leader with a proven ability to align value, opportunity and a strong sense of social responsibility as he and his team develop solutions that benefit large industrial and commercial power consumers and create meaningful efficiencies for electric systems around the world. Mr. Erhardt is a former power markets trader at TransAlta, where he led a new market development group and actively traded in the Alberta, California ISO, Pacific Northwest and the Desert South West power markets. Prior to joining TransAlta Mr. Erhardt worked in the field of oil and gas commercial optimization and asset acquisition. An avid outdoors man and a graduate of the University of Calgary (Economics), Mr. Erhardt and his family continue to call the city of Calgary home.
Mark Proud
Board Member
Mark is the Co-Founder and CEO of enSift Corp. where he leads a diverse team of talented developers, engineers and data scientists who have come together to solve some of the most overlooked and misunderstood problems faced by industry today. A graduate of the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Mark began his career in the energy sector with Petro-Canada. Later Mark went on to co-found one of the oil and gas sectors first regulatory risk management firms focused on volume recognition and compliance reporting for publicly traded major oil and gas producers throughout North America, Europe, Africa and the Asia Pacific regions. In 2011 he was introduced to the software world where he designed and launched an award winning compliance management platform for oil and gas, which for fans of HBO’s Silicon Valley, was called PIDE Piper.