Edward Harris

Edward is the founder and president of PriMarc. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Houston and his advance studies include The Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on the client side as Marketing Manager and has spent many years with both large and medium size agencies, most with international experience, including Ketchum, Y&R and McKinney, and assisted some of them with opening offices in major markets. Edward has engineered numerous marketing successes for a wide variety of clients. He is a past board member of the Business Marketing Association Houston Chapter.

Woody Rae Forrieter

Woody has a background in media, sales and marketing.  In radio and television he developed skills to extract the essence of a narrative and communicate it quickly and clearly.  In sales he developed the ability to view concepts from the customer’s perspective.  And in marketing he successfully combined those proficiencies to create messages that remain firmly fixed in the minds of customers and prospects. 

Over the past two decades Woody has provided marketing consultation to numerous U.S. and Canadian corporations, including Aker Kvaerner, Alliance Pipeline, Baker Hughes, CCS, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Enerflex, Flint Energy, Fort Chicago, FOX-TEK, Grant Prideco, Halliburton, Hunting, KBR, KERN Partners, Red Deer College, Schlumberger, Security DBS, Smith International, Solvay, Tesco, Upside Engineering, Weatherford, Westeel, Willbros, Wood Group, and many others. 

Woody is a graduate of the Communications program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and earned his Certified Business Communicator credentials from the Business Marketing Association.  He is a past president of the Business Marketing Association Houston chapter. 

Richard Ghiselin

Dick has more than 40 years of oil and gas industry marketing experience, and has led numerous marketing projects in various oil and gas centers worldwide. Since 1995, he has been affiliated with Hart Energy Publishing, starting as Publisher and Editorial Director of Petroleum Engineer International, now Hart’s E&P. He has been a Senior Consultant with Qittitut Consulting, LLC, an international business growth strategy consultancy, since 2002. Dick has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and has completed two post-graduate Marketing and Management courses at Columbia University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (Texas) and a Certified Business Communicator.

Sally Truss

Sally has honed her marketing skills over the past twenty years as an analyst, strategist, tactician and communicator in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. Recent projects with organizations such as Upside Engineering, Wiebe Environmental Services, Pulse Data, Red Deer College and Blue Quills First Nations College have centered on development of strategic initiatives for organizational growth and internal team development.

Her expertise in marketing, development and management has helped position organizations such as the Calgary Opera, Banff’s Whyte Museum and the Calgary International Children’s Festival as cultural icons in Alberta. Sally’s proven ability as a communications was crucial to her success at CBC Radio and Television, Kananaskis Country, The Banff Centre, and ACCESS TV. Sally is a trained film maker and conflict-resolution mediator whose research centres on governance, innovation and economic impact.

Sally holds an MBA degree from the University of Leicester.

John Savoie

John applies a diverse background in strategic marketing and corporate communications and an entrepreneurial approach to marketing challenges. His experience spans both business-to-business and retail marketing environments.

With over a decade of experience with some of Canada’s leading technology companies and Fortune 500 businesses across North America and Europe, John successfully brought new products to market and developed strategic marketing initiatives, including product and service branding campaigns. He is also an expert in website development and online marketing.

John has a degree in Print Journalism and several certificates from the New York Film Academy.

Dave Cyphers

Dave is president of The Cyphers Agency, Inc., and has led regional and national marketing campaigns for the last 19 years. He and his full time staff of 18 maintain clients across consumer, business-to-business and non-profit industries, with a focus on building superior brands and developing strategy-driven creative. Dave graduated in 1985 with a Journalism and Business degree from the University of Maryland.

Arnaud Dasprez

Arnaud is the founder and president of HexaGroup.  He has many years of experience in Web and interactive development and is one of the most knowledge web development resources available.  Arnaud holds an MBA from the Institut Européen des Affaires, College of Business Administration in Paris, France, and a Bachelors Degree in Science (Applied Maths & Physics).

Peter D. Mullins

Peter has been involved with the marketing/advertising industry for over twenty years.  He has worked as an account executive for Pinne-Herbers Advertising, a business-to-business advertising agency in San Francisco; as an advertising sales representative with Penton Media on several of their magazines; and as an independent sales representative for two professional society based publications - Mechanical Engineering by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Lighting Design and Application (LD+A) from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA).  Peter has a business degree from San Diego State University and an MBA in Marketing from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.

David Pinnington

David has more than 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with assignments in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. Since 1993 he has been working as a consultant to the oilfield business and in 1998 established an LLC providing bilingual communication and IT services in France and overseas. David has a BSc(Eng) in Electrical Engineering from London University, and is a Registered Professional Engineer (MIEE) in the UK. He is currently based near Paris in France.