Dr. Greg Hu, President and CEO
Dr. Greg Hu is an entrepreneur and highly experienced oil & gas geologist. In 2004 he created his consulting company, H & H Consulting Inc. One year later, he co-founded Alberta Oilsands Inc. In 2006, he co-founded Loring Tarcore Labs Ltd. where under his leadership Loring grew quickly and became one of the top three oil & gas laboratories in Canada. This process included acquiring a pioneering Canadian oil & gas laboratory, and a coal and mineral laboratory.
As he became an experienced oilsands geologist, Greg noticed that existing lab processes were extremely labour intensive, slow, and error-prone. He also noticed that labs could not meet oil industry needs in terms of quality and turnaround time. He established a new lab workflow (idWorkflow) based on his own patent, with the goal of significantly improving lab processes.
Greg has over 25 year of experience in the oilsands industry, with experience working for Petro-Canada, Value Creation Inc., and Alberta Oilsands Inc. as a geologist, asset geologist, exploration manager, and VP Exploration. In addition, he has provided geological consulting services to companies such as Chevron Canada, ConocoPhillips Canada, and Koch Canada.
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Greg obtained a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Western Ontario, in addition to a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in geology. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG), the Canadian Heavy Oil Association (CHOA), and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA). He was chair of the Heavy Oil & Oilsands Division (2012-2013) and the Basin Analysis and Sequence Stratigraphy Division (2001-2003) of the CSPG.
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Rob Meurin, Vice President - Marketing
Rob brings to DigitCore over 20 years of marketing, communications, business development, and leadership experience as a manager (Communica Public Affairs, Caliber Planning, QC Data Petroleum Services, and AccuMap EnerData) and as a senior-level consultant to a wide variety of companies and organizations. His focus has been in software, information management, databases, and new technologies. He was part of the original team at AccuMap and over a nine-year period played key roles in accelerating AccuMap's rapid growth and emergence as market leader with over 75% market share. Rob has an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and a B.A. (Honours) from Queen's University.
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Jon Noad, Director - DigitCore Institute for Learning
Jon is a geologist with more than 25 years of experience. After graduating from Imperial College in 1985, he worked in mining for five years in South Africa, before a spell as a marine geologist analyzing subsea cable routes. He returned to London University to complete an MSc. and PhD., the latter examining Miocene shoreface systems in eastern Borneo before joining Shell in 1998. There he worked on production (Sakhalin Development) and then on several Middle East exploration projects. He was also seconded to Delft University for a year, where he ran the Masters in Petroleum Geology. Jon moved to Shell Canada in 2006. In 2010, Jon took on the role of Exploration Manager at Murphy Oil Canada, managing a team of eight technical professionals. He moved to Husky Energy in 2012, running all subsurface peer reviews and then managing the g&g New graduates while operating as Husky’s clastic sedimentologist for western Canada.
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Darryl Soderberg, Project Manager and Geologist
Darryl has been part of the team for four years and has been project manager on several winter drilling programs for large exploration, production, and oilsands companies. His twelve-year background in the industry includes both field work and lab experience as a working geologist in oilsands, coal-bed methane, coal, and oil shale. More recently, he has been spending more time providing companies with demo's of DigitCore Software and DigitCore Library while providing in-depth technical support to new and existing clients. Darryl has a B.Sc. from the University of Calgary in Geosciences.
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Patrick Chen, Project Manager and Geologist
Patrick has worked for DigitCore and its affilated company, Loring Tarcore Labs, for seven years. He is a core logging geologist who also provides technical support to clients on a wide range of projects. He has extensive experience logging oilsands cores for both in situ and mining projects. Patrick is now focused on expanding the online DigitCore Library and has been leading the QC process as we have added thousands of new wells. Patrick has a B.Sc. from China University of Geosciences, a M.Sc. in Geology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario.
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