Leadership
Juergen Puetter
President, CEO
In 2003, Mr. Puetter discovered that the wind resource of northeastern BC is world class — and was untapped. Shortly thereafter he founded Aeolis and laid the foundation for a company that is now a driving force in BC’s wind industry. While developing Aeolis, he realized that there is far more wind energy in the region than the grid will be able to accommodate for decades to come. In 2007, he thus founded Blue Fuel Energy to convert wind and other renewables into “liquid electricity" — low-carbon Methanol. In 2008 the Government of Canada appointed Mr. Puetter Chairman of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). In 1977, Mr. Puetter founded Bionaire, where he served as president and CEO for 15 years. In 1992 he founded Hydroxyl Systems, serving as president and CEO for a decade. He was responsible for much of the innovation pioneered and developed at both companies. His academic background includes electrical engineering and economics at Loyola University in Montreal. Along with his technical expertise, Mr. Puetter is experienced at negotiating and securing funding for business and project development.
Dan Amadori
CFO
Mr. Amadori is a graduate of McGill University (B.Commerce 1972) and the Ivey School of Business (MBA 1974). He joined Arthur Andersen & Co’s Toronto office and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1977. In 1986 he joined a private communications company as President and led the sale of that business to a large public company in 1988. He founded Lamerac Financial Corp., a corporate finance and M&A advisory firm, that year. Since inception, Lamerac has completed numerous transactions in a wide range of industries across North America. Mr. Amadori has served as an officer/director of both private and public for profit and not-for-profit corporations during the past decade and received his ICD.D designation (Institute of Corporate Directors) in 2010.
John Partyka
Vice President, Corporate Development
Mr. Partyka has extensive experience across the energy value chain in corporate and project development, finance, evaluations and deal execution in domestic and international settings. His background includes a number of large energy infrastructure organizations where he played key roles in negotiating and executing major acquisitions and transactions. Mr. Partyka entered the energy sector in the area of oil and gas exploration with a degree in Geological Engineering from University of Manitoba. He subsequently returned to school to obtain his MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1988, and also obtained the CFA designation.
Colleen Brown
Director of Projects and Planning
Ms Brown runs Aeolis's regional office in Fort St. John, BC and has national and international expertise in project development, conflict resolution and community building. Prior to joining Aeolis, she received her LL.B. and B.C.L. from McGill University and an M.Sc. in Community and Regional Planning from UBC. Ms Brown worked as a renewable energy planning consultant in Vancouver and as an attorney in New York City. While based in New York, she successfully negotiated project finance, permitting, and regulatory activities for a broad scope of sectors. In addition, she is a past Director of the BC Sustainable Energy Association. Her interests are extensive and include conservation, community energy systems, energy security, and the responsible development and application of sustainable energy.
Greg Dueck
Northern Field Representative
Mr. Dueck, who has lived in the northeastern city of Dawson Creek for more than 40 years, does wind resource field work and assists with Aeolis' development work underway. He has been a strong supporter of sustainable living within the region for many years through his involvement with several local organizations. He was associated with the founding of Peace Energy Cooperative and subsequently worked with the Bear Mountain Wind project. As a member of the BC Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA), Mr. Dueck also assisted the start-up of the South Peace Chapter.
Wagner Ksenhuk
Director of Wind Resource Management
Mr. Ksenhuk manages Aeolis' wind data resources, R&D, and wind park planning. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from Sao Paulo State University and has done post-graduate work on grid-connected wind energy converters at Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft and on wind energy applications at ISET (now the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology, an arm of the University of Kassel, Germany). His initial work at Aeolis included: evaluation of over 25 areas of BC for wind park development; site assessments; selection of met tower monitoring locations, including those with state-of-the art LiDAR technology; wind resource analysis; and troubleshooting and testing of new wind monitoring technologies in the field. Mr. Ksenhuk's subsequent work has been focused on wind data management, monitoring, met tower installation, certification, project development and commercial negotiations. In total, in Brazil and Canada, he has over 17 years of experience with energy projects.
