Validere delivers the most advanced quality intelligence for O&G companies to know true product quality in real-time and optimize logistics and trading. Active deployments across leading producers and midstream organizations are yielding significant cost savings and revenue enhancements.
Know true product quality
Validere 360 (IoT platform) empowers oil and gas organizations across the supply chain to know their product’s true quality with the highest degree of confidence.
Optimize barrel value (AI)
Validere Edge analyzes product quality, logistical costs, and real-time market pricing to match companies with optimal buying and selling partners for large arbitrage opportunities.
Our Story
2019
3M barrels / day optimized with Validere software. US & Asia growth. Launched Validere Edge.
2018
Full scale deployments in Canada. Opened Houston office.
2017
Developed Validere 360 (IoT) to provide the highest confidence into true product quality. Successful deployments with major Canadian oil & gas players.
2016
Graduated Y-Combinator and raised funding. Launched deployments in Western Canada.
2015
Developed Harvard IP. Joined Creative Destruction Lab and formed team of industry experts, top scientists and developers.
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Our Team
We’re scientists, industry veterans, AI experts, software developers – all on a mission to innovate Oil & Gas.
Above all, we’re a team that cares deeply about solving real problems & helping people.
Leadership
Dr. Ian Burgess
Co-Founder
With a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard, Ian is an interdisciplinary scientist whose inventions have been recognized with an R&D 100 Award and featured in Scientific American.
Nouman Ahmad
Co-Founder
An entrepreneur with a passion for solving complex problems, Nouman previously led operations for a successful Toronto fintech startup and worked in TD investment banking.
Jon DeCoste
Business Development
Jon has over 10 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry and has previously owned and operated a business consulting firm as well as a merger & acquisition startup.
Mark Le Dain
Business Development & Strategy
Mark has significant experience advising energy and infrastructure companies as an investment banker with Barclays, successfully completing over $18 billion of M&A and $5 billion of capital market transactions.
Paul Oates
Business Development
Paul has 15+ years of experience in senior commercial and operational management roles in O&G. He also holds an MBA from London Business School and most recently acted as Managing Director for a London-based AI firm.
Tarun Ajwani
Business Development
Tarun brings more than 15 years of experience successfully building and scaling exchanges and brokerages. Most recently, Tarun established a crude oil brokerage in Canada for Marex Spectron.
Raja Bhatia
Software Development
Raja brings 12 years of experience building highly scalable applications. He also co-founded a social comparison shopping engine, and has worked with private equity firms on deal due diligence and tech transitions.
Nick Reid
Business Development
Nick has over a decade of experience in oil & gas and capital markets trading. He was responsible for the rapid development of a multi billion-dollar crude oil trading business at one of the largest multinational oil & gas companies.
Board of Directors
Pierre Magnan
Chair
Pierre Magnan is the President of Parkland International. Prior to assuming this role, Pierre led Parkland’s Supply, Trading & Refining Business, the Corporate Development Team and the Legal Team.
Louis Krannich
Director
Louis is the CEO of ROC, and is a career energy professional with experience in operations, engineering, finance, business development and strategy. Prior to joining ROC, Louis held leadership roles at PG&E and El Paso Corp.
JS Cournoyer
Director
JS is a partner at Real Ventures. He is passionate about helping entrepreneurs realize their visions for changing the world. He likes to work with entrepreneurs that use AI and blockchain to transform our society.
Dr. Joanna Aizenberg
Director
Joanna is the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science and Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. She has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards.
Dr. Ian Burgess
Director
With a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard, Ian is an interdisciplinary scientist whose inventions have been recognized with an R&D 100 Award and featured in Scientific American.
Nouman Ahmad
Director
An entrepreneur with a passion to solve complex problems, Nouman previously led operations for a successful Toronto fintech startup and worked in TD investment banking.
Advisors
George Whitesides
Advisor
George is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, and co-founded numerous companies including Genzyme, GelTex, and Theravance. In 2011, he received the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists.
Doug Foshee
Advisor
Doug is the founder and owner of Sallyport Investments. He previously served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of El Paso Corporation, and chaired the board of directors of The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch.