About
PTAC at a Glance
As a neutral, industry-led innovation hub, PTAC bridges the gap between real-world industry challenges and practical technology solutions, helping to reduce investment risks, facilitate access to funding, and support the transition of ideas into field-demonstrated solutions.
Here’s how PTAC delivers real-world impact for its Members across Canada’s energy innovation landscape—through our Vision, our Mission, and our Values.
Our Mission
How we deliver impact: PTAC drives and fuels industry collaboration and innovation for a stronger, cleaner, and more competitive Canadian oil and gas future.
Our Vision
What we aspire to become: To be the go-to innovation hub for Canada’s oil and gas industry, facilitating and advancing value-added research, technology development, and deployment.
Our Values
Our core values guide our actions and decisions, reflecting the principles that make PTAC a trusted partner in promoting industry engagement and driving technology development.
Innovation in Action: Improving efficiency, competitiveness, and safety, while advancing sustainability through groundbreaking technology.
Competitive by Design: Reducing costs, maximizing recovery, and driving global performance to ensure Canada’s oil and gas sector remains globally competitive.
Stronger Together: Uniting industry, researchers, and innovators to tackle challenges head-on.
Impact-Driven: Managing and facilitating solutions that matter, focusing resources on game-changing innovations that deliver measurable results.
Responsible Leadership: Prioritizing an oil and gas sector that is economically strong, technologically advanced, and environmentally responsible – creating value for all stakeholders, including meeting the demands of diverse international markets.
Accelerating Change: Driving the rapid adoption and deployment of cutting-edge technology to fuel industry-wide progress and position Canada as a global leader in the oil and gas sector.
Meet The Team
Lauren Savoie
President & CEO
PTAC is powered by people. Our incredible Board and Staff are the driving force facilitating meaningful change across Canada’s evolving energy landscape.
Together, we are proud to unite the innovation ecosystem in advancing a responsible, competitive, and resilient oil and gas sector.
Serving as champions of innovation, PTAC’s Board contributes deep expertise, strong governance, and strategic leadership to PTAC’s activities. Complementing this leadership is a small but highly capable Staff, whose agility and commitment to excellence translates vision into collaborative action.
PTAC BOARD
CHAIR
Matt Bryan
CHAIR ELECT
Meera Nathwani-Crowe
DIRECTOR
Rob Baillargeon
Director of Innovation
Cenovus Energy
DIRECTOR
Zane Bahari-Robart
Head – Western Canada GTB Sales
Scotiabank
BOARD OBSERVER
Bryan Helfenbaum
Chief Operations Officer
The Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN)
DIRECTOR
Tyler Homan
Senior Vice President, Production & Operations
Teine Energy Ltd.
BOARD OBSERVER
Nicole Harbauer
Trade Commissioner
Global Affairs Canada
DIRECTOR
Nannette Ho-Covernton
Executive Director
The etc Foundation
DIRECTOR
Nicole Koosmann
VP Safety, Engineering & Audit
BC Energy Regulator
DIRECTOR
Rob Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
Alberta Energy Regulator
DIRECTOR
Anders Nygren
Dean, Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary
DIRECTOR
Ken Putt
Independent
DIRECTOR
Tim Rose
Canada Country Controller
Shell Canada Limited
DIRECTOR
Lauren Savoie
President & Chief Executive Officer
PTAC
DIRECTOR
Kevin Stashin
Independent
PAST CHAIR
Cheryl Trudell
Independent
DIRECTOR
Scott Volk
Director of Emissions & Innovation
Tourmaline Oil Corp.
BOARD OBSERVER
Vanessa White
Executive Director, Energy
Alberta Innovates
