ETI Leadership

Steve Kresnyak, P.Eng. President, CTO, Director

Steve Kresnyak has spent over 40 years as a consulting engineer worldwide in the upstream, downstream and offshore hydrocarbon energy industry. He has extensive EPC/EPCM experience and is the technology developer and inventor of many world issued process patents including Expander’s EGTL™ for Gas to Liquids, EBTL™ for Biomass to Liquids, Biomass Gasification, and FTCrude® process technology for bitumen, heavy oil and refinery bottoms upgrading. His areas of expertise include facilities for natural gas production, NGL extraction, deep cut turboexpander, SAGD heavy oil production, bitumen upgrading, refining, coking, hydro-processing, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, gasification, syngas production, Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS), offshore production platforms and subsea flow assurance. For over 30 years Steve was involved in EPC lump sum projects, leader for front end project development teams, technical specialist and technology development lead with Colt Engineering Corporation (now Worley Canada). Steve has authored several patents.

Ivan Ivandic COO, Director

Ivan Ivandic has close to 50 years of experience in electrical industry and 30 plus years in equiment design and manufacturing.   He served as a Power Plant Engineer and Superintendent – directed the construction of new mines and maintenance of existing mines in the former Czechoslovakia. In Canada, he is the founder of electrical engineering and equipment manufacturing companies Unit Electrical Engineering Ltd. and IMG Industries Inc.. Both compnaies deal with the design, manufacture and installation of customized medium to high voltage industrial equipment for construction, mining and heavy industry. In recent history, Ivan and his IMG team, have designed and manufactured custom, modular Electrical / Mechanical-Islands for Expander Energy’s EGTL™ Gas-to-Liquids plants, These islands scalable for various sized plans; they are modular for ease of manufacture, logistics and site installation. These custom IMG islands are now an integral part of the Gas-to-Liquids plants design and function.

Martina Ivandic CFO, Director

Martina Ivandic has 20 years of experience in business administration with a demonstrated history of working in the service and energy industries. She has been working with Ivan Ivandic on electrical product design and manufacturing since 1990 (at both Unit Electrical Engineering Ltd. and IMG Industries Inc.). She is also a co-founder and former owner of companies providing medium scale construction, as well as septic, craning and building design services (TradeMark Industries Ltd. and NueScape Design Concepts). Martina is skilled in business process, negotiation, marketing, computer-aided design, accounting, and sales management.

Kurt Hiebert Technical Designer

Kurt Hiebert has 20 years experience in mechanical design, Rapid Prototyping and managing Engineering Groups. With a background in Helicopter Equipment design owning Heliap Aviation Products Inc. and Oil and Gas Service Vehicle design managing the Engineering Department for Brutus Truck Bodies, Normar Industries. Kurt specializes in bringing new technologies to market from concept to completion integrating IP, CAD Modeling, Government Grants, Manufacture Support and Technical Sales.

James H. Ross B.Sc., C.Dir Chief Financial Advisor

James Ross has over 35 years experience in the investment industry including executive management, small capital investment banking, venture capital, private equity, and sales and trading. James held leadership positions at Jennings Capital Inc. and C-Free Power Corp., a renewable energy company (now Good Energies Capital), a Director and Shareholder of Platinum Communications (now ZplorNet), and a Director of Glenbriar Technologies Inc. (now Uniserve Communications). James was CEO and Director of Expander Energy Inc. from 2010 – 2017 prior to becoming CEO and President of Rocky Mountain GTL Inc. a clean energy midstream company that designs, constructs and operates “small scale Gas to Liquids” plants. James is also CEO and co-founder of Alberta Clean Technologies (VCC) Ltd.