About
My background is in chemical engineering, and over the past several years I have moved between academic research, heavy industry, and venture building. I completed a BScE in Chemical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, and I live in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Further Education
I am beginning the Master of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship at UNB in September 2026. The program is the vehicle through which I am developing Headland Energy.
Headland Energy
I am currently founding Headland Energy, a distributed energy development company based in Atlantic Canada. We turn customer needs, energy technologies, and market rules into viable projects, beginning with customer-sited solar, storage, and flexible energy assets for farms and commercial operations. Every project is built around the finances of the operation it serves. If the numbers do not work, we say so.
Background
I completed my BScE in Chemical Engineering at UNB in the First Division, with a CGPA of 3.9 out of 4.3, minors in Business and Mathematics, and a Diploma in Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. I completed three co-op terms, at Irving Pulp and Paper, Irving Paper, and Michelin North America, where I worked on effluent treatment plant commissioning and hydrogen sulfide emissions trials, a sludge pilot project, and shop operations as the lead for a machine family that processed approximately 90% of site production. I served as Vice President and then President of Enactus UNB, where our team won the Atlantic regional Pool B Impact & Innovation Challenge and advanced to the national final at the 2026 Enactus Canada National Exposition in Montreal, where I delivered our presentation.
Hexoris
I co-founded Hexoris Inc., which began as a chemical engineering capstone project at UNB and grew into a serious attempt to commercialize a reactor process for low-carbon graphitized anode materials targeting the lithium-ion battery supply chain. I led the company's financial modelling, commercialization roadmap, pitching, and fundraising, with supporting work on systems design. Hexoris was selected as a 2026 NBIF Breakthru Live Finale finalist, one of five companies chosen from more than 80 New Brunswick ventures, competing for $200,000 in equity investment. Given the cost and timeline of technical validation, and the difficulty of finding the right people at the right time under capital constraints, I began to understand how demanding deeptech company formation is when the commercial path depends on expensive experimental proof. I left Hexoris in May 2026 to pursue new work.
Research
Through a Mitacs Accelerate internship with Thermweave Inc., I worked on a dip-coating process to be used for bonding carbon nanomaterials to common base fabrics in order to improve their thermal conductivity. My contributions covered the literature review, the coating chemistry, and the experimental planning for the dip-coating trials.
Through an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, I worked with Dr. Felipe Chibante on high temperature thermal plasma conversion of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. I designed the reactor system, specified instrumentation and controls, and helped to advance the project during my contract.