May 2007 ISSUE
NEW COUNCIL
ENERGY INDUSTRY VETERAN
TAKES APEGGA HELM
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TRAPPINGS OF LEADERSHIP |
APEGGA’s elected leader for the next year brings a wealth of experience from the oil and gas industry to his new job. John McLeod, P.Eng., has an engineering and management background combining for 36 years in the domestic and international upstream industry.
Mr. McLeod, who won on the President-Elect ballot last year, was officially sworn in as APEGGA’s 88th President during the 2007 Annual General Meeting in Calgary, April 28. AGM attendees – there in person, via the Internet or via video links with branch venues – also learned who the new APEGGA councillors and new President-Elect are.
In 2008, Dr. Gordon Williams, P.Geol., will become the first geoscientist in 25 years to serve as APEGGA President. Dr. Williams was the founding president of the Canadian Council of Professional Geoscientists and last year received its inaugural Canadian Professional Geoscientist Award. He was APEGGA’s Second Vice-President from 1999 to 2001.
As President-Elect, Dr. Williams will be part of the APEGGA Executive Committee
for 2007-2008. He’ll be joined by Past President David Chalcroft, P.Eng.,
and Lisa Doig, P.Eng., the newly elected Vice-President. Executive Director & Registrar
Neil Windsor, P.Eng., also sits on the Executive Committee.
Ms. Doig is an electrical engineer with more than 18 years of experience in the
oil and gas, and power industries. She served on Council in 1991-92 and from
1994 to 1997.
Also announced at the AGM was that new councillors beginning their three-year terms are Ron Hinds, P.Geoph., Leah Lawrence, P.Eng., Anne Simpson, P.Eng., and John Van Der Put, P.Eng.
Born, raised and educated in southern New Brunswick, Mr. McLeod is fluent in both of Canada’s official languages. After graduating from the University of New Brunswick with a mechanical engineering degree in 1970, he spent 15 years with Amoco Canada, building his engineering experience while increasing his responsibilities.
With Amoco and the companies that followed, Mr. McLeod worked on projects here and around the world. His work has taken him to, among many other countries, Egypt, China, Pakistan, Niger, Oman and Sudan. Since 1995, he’s been president of California Oil & Gas Corporation, which explores for oil and gas in California and Louisiana. Mr. McLeod holds directorships for several public and private oil and gas companies, operating in Canada and elsewhere.
Mr. McLeod served on Council from 1986 to 1989. He’s served on a number of APEGGA committees, chairing the Discipline Committee in 1988-89 and the Career Development Advisory Committee in 1983-84.
Among his other affiliations are memberships in the Calgary Petroleum Club, the Ontario Petroleum Institute, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.