Leadership & Team

Dusty's career spans the energy and environmental sectors as a creator, consultant and company builder. He has served as both interim and fractional CTO for private and public companies, and has built cleantech companies as Founder & CEO — experience on both sides of the table: raising capital as a founder and deploying technology as an executive.

He co-founded TerraVolt with a conviction that remediation should restore land, not relocate contamination — and that the industry's dig-truck-dump default persists only because nothing better could operate at commercial scale. Partnering with inventor Edward Hanna, Dusty built the company around the TerraVolt Technology: assembling the leadership team, securing $2M+ in non-dilutive funding (Emissions Reduction Alberta, NRC-IRAP, Mitacs), forging the University of Calgary research partnership, and structuring the capital-light rental-and-royalty business model at the core of the company's economics.

John pairs operating leadership with transaction execution: debt and equity financings across private and public companies, 100+ acquisition and joint-venture opportunities evaluated as a CEO and founder, and governance, reporting and control frameworks designed for growth-stage and publicly listed companies.

His career runs the full arc of energy finance: audit and internal-control advisory at Ernst & Young; SOX and governance leadership at Harvest Energy Trust; public-company reporting at Paramount Resources; then a decade of finance leadership — VP Finance & CFO of Monterey Exploration (growth, public listing and ~$375M sale) and founding CFO of Carmel Bay Exploration (~$200M sale); founder and CEO of Modest Energy; CFO of Fireweed Energy and Triple J Pipelines. Today he is CEO of Noah's Ark Investments Inc. and provides fractional CEO/CFO leadership through 1MG Advisory Services.

An environmental scientist and engineer, Ed began his career in 1974, when “environment” was barely a word in civil engineering. He became one of the field's early pioneers — integrating soil contamination and environmental capability into development engineering, helping build what became the Canadian Land Reclamation Association, and devising stormwater techniques still in standard use.

His hallmark is elegant systems that outlive their era. For the Town of Cobalt, Ontario, he designed a constructed-wetland sewage treatment system at a fraction of conventional cost — still operating after 30+ years and adopted by other small communities. At the abandoned Kam Kotia mine — then the largest single source of heavy metals and acid drainage entering the Canadian environment since WWII — his wetland containment design remains in service today. In the 1990s he founded Environmental Audit Inc., whose groundbreaking work helped establish the Phase I/II Environmental Site Assessments now standard in North American real estate transactions.

A production engineer by training, Hish built his career optimizing wells and facilities across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: development of the Montney resource play at Advantage Energy; Senior Production Engineer & Consultant at Enerplus, responsible for 200+ vertical and horizontal wells; and Senior Production Engineer at Pengrowth Energy. His operational range covers well evaluation and optimization, workovers, artificial lift and pump design, gathering systems, compression and oil & gas batteries.

As an entrepreneur, Hish is President & CEO of Pipe Fiction Oilfield Supply Inc. and CEO of WACCO Energy Services Inc., an Alberta company specializing in long-term closure liability — well abandonments and site remediation for producing oil companies. That closure business is exactly the market TerraVolt serves: WACCO works the dig-truck-dump problem every day, which is why Hish joined to replace it.