Mr. Pettit is an advisor to the oil & gas industry with more than twenty-five years of experience as a management consultant, bulge-bracket investment banker and oil company corporate development executive.

After working internationally as a process engineer, Mr. Pettit entered the oil & gas sector as a senior business planner with Norcen Energy Resources. He went on to a successful career on Wall Street, making Partner at a boutique restructuring firm, serving as Global Head of Strategic Advisory for UBS Investment Bank (IBD) and co-leading Booz & Company's global M&A advisory service line, as a Lead Partner in the energy and chemicals practice.

Mr. Pettit is the author of three business books - most recently, 'The Final Frontier: E&P's Low-Cost Operating Model' (Wiley, 2018) and is Associate Editor on the Editorial Committee of the journal, 'Energy GeoScience.' He holds a BASc (mechanical engineering) from University of Toronto and MBA from Western University (Canada).