About Pason

James D. Hill

Chair of the Board

James Hill, who lives in Calgary, Alberta, served as Pason’s President and Chief Executive Officer for 25 years, has been a director of the Corporation since 1996, and is currently the Chairman of the Board. His career includes previous experience as the Secretary-Treasurer with Badger Drilling Ltd. and prior to that, he spent five years with Ernst & Young in various capacities, including working as an Audit Manager. Mr. Hill served on the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada and the Board of the Canadian Association of Drilling Engineers. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta and holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Laura Schwinn

Director

Laura Schwinn is currently the President of W. R. Grace & Co.’s Specialty Catalysts business, one of Grace’s three global operating segments. Grace is a publicly traded leading global supplier of catalysts and engineered materials. Prior to this, from 2014 to 2017 Ms. Schwinn was the CEO of C&C Reservoirs, a privately-owned, global company that provides reservoir knowledge used to derive detailed insight across the E&P lifecycle for geoscientists, reservoir engineers, production engineers, and production managers. Ms. Schwinn was also at Halliburton, one of the world's largest oilfield service companies, from 2002 to 2013 and was the Global Vice President of the Drill Bits and Services division from 2010 to 2013.

Kevin Boston

Vice President, Business Development

Kevin Boston leads all aspects of sales, marketing, and business development for Pason USA.  Kevin joined Pason in September 2010 and previously held positions of Vice President - Corporate Development, Vice President – International, and General Manager – 3PS Inc.

Prior to joining Pason, Kevin advised private equity and corporate clients on MA&A, restructuring, and strategy for Oliver Wyman, a global leader in management consulting. He has worked extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America during his career.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Accounting and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas in Austin.

Houston, TX

Fiona Mueller-Thode

President, Verdazo Analytics Inc. (a Pason Company)

Fiona Mueller-Thode is responsible for leading and building upon the success of our discovery analytics software company, Verdazo Analytics Inc. She joined Pason in 2008, and during her tenure has held numerous progressive sales and business development roles, with the most recent being Director, New Ventures. Her latest role included working on the Verdazo Analytics acquisition.

Prior to joining Pason, Fiona held business development and operations management roles at Oil & Gas service companies in addition to marketing positions before moving into the industry over 18 years ago.

Fiona holds a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary.

Calgary, AB

Reid Wuntke

President, Energy Toolbase (a Pason Company)

Reid Wuntke is responsible for leading and expanding Energy Toolbase, a Pason company that is an industry leading software platform for modeling, controlling, managing, monitoring, and validating the economics of solar and energy storage projects. Further, Reid is also responsible for identifying and pursuing profitable growth opportunities for Pason beyond our current rig-based core business. This includes opportunities for products and services within the industry as well as outside of oil and gas.

Prior to joining Pason, Reid was the co-founder and COO of MobSquad, a Calgary-based company that is focused on creating teams of software engineers and data scientists for US-based clients. Prior to that, he was a director of Corporate Development at Parkland Fuel where he played a key role in over $1 billion of acquisitions. Leading up to that, he was VP Operations at a Vancouver-based start-up and also spent a couple years as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. His professional career began with 11 years of service in the Royal Canadian Air Force as an aerospace engineer where he rose to the rank of a captain.

Reid has a Master of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia and holds a Bachelor of Chemistry and Physics degree from the Royal Military College of Canada.

Calgary, AB