Our team

CEO

Co-Founder & Director 

Mr. Ross has over 35 years of experience in the investment industry including executive management, small capital investment banking, venture capital, private equity, sales and trading. He was lead director and early investor in C-Free Power Corp., a renewable energy company which was acquired in 2009 by Good Energies Capital. Mr. Ross was major shareholder and director of Platinum Communications Corporation which was acquired by ExplorNet in 2015, and was a Director of Glenbriar Technologies Inc. until it was acquired by Uniserve Communications Corp. in 2017. He served as CEO of Rocky Mountain GTL Inc., a low emissions fuel company that built Canada’s first small-scale gas-to-liquids plant in Alberta.  He is currently the Executive Chairman of Expander Energy Inc., a clean energy company. Mr. Ross is the founding CEO and a director of Alberta Clean Technologies Ltd.

CFO

Co-Founder & Director

Mr. Ferster has over 20 years of experience in finance, accounting and commodities-based industries (oil and gas, mining, and power).  Previously, he has been an officer and director for several companies, including Canadian Rockies Petroleum Corp., a private oil and gas company, CEO & President of Caldas Gold Corp., a private international junior mining company, and CEO & Director of SynStream Energy Corp., a public oil and gas company. Mr. Ferster was an independent consultant to clean energy technology companies prior to joining ABCT.

 Corporate Secretary

Co-Founder & Director

 Mr. Matheson has over 35 years of experience as a founder, lawyer, executive and investor in public energy and technology companies in Canada, including CEO & President of Glenbriar Technologies Inc, a provider of Cloud-enabled business technology solutions, CEO & Director of Platinum Communications Corp., the largest fixed wireless ISP in Alberta, and Vice-President, General Counsel & CFO of Transwest Energy Inc., an oil and gas exploration, development and pipeline company. Mr. Matheson currently serves as a panel member and presiding officer with the Calgary Assessment Review Board.