Garth Braun has more than 30 years of diversified business experience in oil and gas, finance and real estate. Over the past several years, he has led Blackbird through the successful acquisitions of Ruger Energy Inc. and Pennant Energy Inc., the divestiture of the Bigstone Montney asset for proceeds of $8.9M, the accumulation of a significant 47 contiguous section Elmworth Montney land position and the drilling of the first two Elmworth Montney wells. In addition, Braun was instrumental in raising over $50M of capital. He was previously chairman and CEO of an international oil and gas company, and a principal of a private real estate development company that completed over $1B in development.