Mr. Johnston is currently CEO of Wylander Crude Corp, a firm that provides consultancy services to oil and gas and private equity clients in Canada and the USA. He is also a Technical Advisor to Carbon Infrastructure Partners.
Mr. Johnston has forty years of technical/financial/ ESG experience in the Canadian and Northern USA oil and gas sector, and capital markets experience from public companies to the oversight of private equity investments to leading edge carbon Capture and Storage knowledge. He has been directly involved in the conceptualization, discovery and exploitation of numerous oil and gas pools from the foothills of Alberta, BC and Montana to the plains of SE Saskatchewan. Mr. Johnston has maintained technical skills through ownership/active technical role in a private E&P company that holds interests in 2 CCUS projects.
He has over 30 years of experience as a founder, executive and board member of numerous public and private oil and gas companies. Direct experience in a wide range of corporate activities including capital markets, private equity, ESG, mergers, sales/acquisition/strategic processes, and IPOs. Mr. Johnston is a Professional Geologist and holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) degree in Geology from the University of Manitoba and a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Calgary.