Carbon Management Forum Speakers

Jason brings nearly three decades of deep operational, strategy, and engineering experience. He led one of the most important operational technology rollouts the Energy sector has seen, and as an Advisor with the Rice Investment Group, has overseen several early-stage technology venture deals. Jason also has material experience with ERP solutions and implementations.

Mr. Heard has over a decade of experience in the energy industry, founding companies, leading business development and providing legal counsel. As an entrepreneur, he has started retail electricity, energy infrastructure and exploration and production companies. Benjamin led business development efforts in North America for Centrica plc, with a focus on energy technology. He also worked for Centrica in the company’s general counsel’s office. He began his career at Bracewell LLP in the energy transactional and regulatory practice group. Benjamin has a juris doctor degree from Emory University and a bachelor of science, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.

Jack Blears is the Director of E&P Technology Research at Darcy Partners. Since joining Darcy Partners in 2018, he has spoken with hundreds of innovative technology providers and helped Darcy’s E&P clients accelerate the adoption of novel solutions. Jack holds a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University.

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Cully is an energy industry professional with a passion for innovative environmental solutions. He was formerly Vice President of Finance at Highlands Natural Resources, a private equity-sponsored exploration, and production company with operations in Colorado and Montana. While at Highlands, Cully's role included responsibility for commodities sales and marketing, which exposed him to the industry's challenges with flaring. Cully was previously an oil and gas investment banker at Petrie Partners, a boutique finance firm servicing upstream and midstream clients. Before that Cully worked in technical business development roles in the geothermal power generation industry domestically and internationally. Cully holds an undergraduate degree in geology from Middlebury, an MBA from Oxford, and completed a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship researching the "triangle of Es" (Energy-Environment-Economics) principally in China, Iceland, Spain, and Argentina. Cully is an avid endurance athlete and has completed various ultra long-distance events including IronMan Zurich, North Face Endurance Challenge, and the Death Race.

Steve is a PhD physicist who co-founded Kairos Aerospace in 2014. Prior to founding Kairos, Steve was a research manager at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory. He has worked on a variety of NASA- and DARPA-funded programs, including cryogenic detector programs, solar physics experiments and radiation modeling for spacecraft.

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A 30-year veteran of oilfield investments and operations, Tracy Scott Tuner is CEO of CP Energy Services Inc., which includes the operating divisions of CP Well Testing and Arctic Energy Services and their flagship ESG solution, the patented Sand Commander™.  Mr. Turner has participated with investment partners in the finance, restructuring, or startup of 20 oil and gas businesses. He served as either CEO or Chairman for twelve of the companies and was a lead director for the remaining eight. Mr. Turner also advises certain oil and gas PE firms on oilfield equipment and service investments.

Jason has more than 18 years of experience in the Energy industry, ranging from upstream exploration and production, oilfield services, and technology to investment management and venture capital.

Prior to joining EcoVapor, Jason was CEO of Avitas, Avitas, a Baker Hughes venture focused on emissions monitoring and detection strategies enabled through robotics, AI, and digital techniques.  Before that, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of XACT Downhole Telemetry. Prior to XACT, he was a Principal at Kenda Capital, a venture capital fund focused on energy technology.

Jason is a skilled leader with a track record of building high-performance teams, managing growth, and facilitating the adoption of new technologies and solutions in the Energy sector. He received his B.S. in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Dr. Johanna Haggstrom is the VP, Chemicals and Hydrocarbon Fuels Technology, at LanzaTech. Johanna is a Research & Development Executive with over 18 years of experience conducting and overseeing product development. Prior to joining LanzaTech, Dr. Haggstrom spent more than 12 years in the energy industry at Halliburton, and most recently, she was a Director of Technology, based in Houston, TX. Her responsibilities included overseeing technology investment and intellectual asset management, the development of new products and services, and the strategy and structure of the technology organization in the product line.

Dr. Haggstrom holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Mälardalen University in Sweden and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Kansas State University, and she has contributed to more than 35 patents, patent applications, and published papers. Dr. Haggstrom also co-authored a chapter on ‘Environmental Stewardship’ in the book ‘Fracturing Horizontal Wells’, published in 2016.

In 2020, Oil and Gas Investor Magazine named Dr. Haggstrom as one of “25 Influential Women in Energy”, and she was a 2019 Houston Business Journal “Women Who Mean Business – Outstanding Leader in Energy” award winner. Experience Energy, for her work as a “difference maker” in the energy industry, awarded her a coveted “GRIT” award, in the executive leadership category. She was additionally named one of the “Top Female Executives” by the Oil and Gas Council.

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