About Pason

Marcel Kessler

Chair of the Board 

Marcel Kessler served as Pason's President and Chief Executive Officer from 2011 to 2020, has been a director of the Corporation since 2012, and is currently the Chair of the Board. 

Marcel is a highly experienced executive and board member who has worked in several European countries, the United States, and Canada. 

Before joining Pason in 2011, Marcel has held the positions of President, North America, of Exploration Logistics Group, President and Chief Executive Officer of CCR Technologies, and was a Partner at McKinsey & Company. 

Marcel holds a Master of Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Master of Finance from the London Business School.

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, Commercial 

Kevin Boston leads commercial strategy for Pason’s core business and works closely with subsidiaries, including Energy Toolbase and Rawabi Pason LLC, to identify additional corporate development opportunities.  Kevin joined Pason in 2010 and has previously served in a variety of senior leadership roles, including VP - Corporate & Business Development, VP – Product Management & Marketing, VP – International, and General Manager – 3PS Inc. 

Kevin began his career in financial services and later worked as a management consultant for Oliver Wyman’s Corporate Finance and Restructuring practice, where he advised private equity and corporate clients on strategic investments in manufacturing, transportation, and energy companies.  He has worked extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America over the past 20 years. 

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

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 20 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