Thomas Buchanan

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Mr. Thomas W. Buchanan served as Senior Operating Partner at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners. He also served as Chairman at SiO Silica. He is also a Co-Founder at BTG Capital. He also served as the Senior Advisor at Origin Merchant Partners. He is responsible for investments in the Canadian midstream energy sector. Tom has over 30 years of senior leadership experience in E&P, midstream, and marketing. Tom co-founded Founders Energy in 1993 and in 2001 led the conversion of Founders into Provident Energy Trust, the first energy trust formed on the conversion of a junior oil and gas company. As CEO from 2001 - 2010, he successfully led Provident through an aggressive growth strategy creating a $4.5B diversified energy company. Provident grew to over 50,000 boe/d of production in Canada and the United States and became one of Canada's largest integrated natural gas liquids midstream and marketing businesses. Tom retired from Provident in 2010 and joined the Board of Pembina Pipelines (2010-2014). His knowledge of the business and assets of each company enabled him to provide crucial operational, finance, and strategic guidance to the company in respect of Pembina's $3.5B acquisition of Provident's midstream business in early 2012. Tom previously served as Chairman of the Board of Athabasca Oil Corporation and served as Athabasca's interim CEO from October 2014 to April 2015 where he helped to refocus the company's growth strategy and realign its cost structure. Other public company Board experience includes Emera Inc., Spyglass Resources Corp., and Breitburn Energy Partners LP.