About Us.
Energy markets are increasingly complex and volatile. Technologies like energy storage and power-to-heat create new opportunities while disrupting existing business models. For industry, investors, and insurers, the challenge lies in capturing value opportunities and mitigating risk without the high cost and complexity of building dedicated in-house commercial expertise.
Arder Energy addresses this challenge. We specialize in commercial deal delivery, focused on electricity solutions for Western Canadian Industry. As a seamless extension of client commercial teams, we use our experience and analytics to identify opportunities and structure deals from start to finish. We work behind the scenes or deliver turnkey solutions based on your mandate, letting you stay in control in fast-shifting markets.
For investors and insurers, we deliver energy consulting that assures project financing and verifies the economic viability of large investments. We do this by building robust financial models and advising on value and risk drivers.
Leadership Team
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Co-Founder, Advisory Board Chair
Sarah leads financing, legal, governance and external relationship management, including Arder's Advisory Board. She has held senior positions within LNG Canada (“LNGC”) / Shell and worked in investment banking with RBC Capital Markets, in law with McCarthy Tetrault, and had early career roles with the Privy Council Office in Ottawa and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has extensive capital markets experience and senior level commercial knowledge, having negotiated, evaluated and structured M&A, commercial and joint venture agreements for LNGC, and other previous clients.
Sarah holds a mid-career LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, a JD from the University of Calgary, and a First Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University. She is called to the bar in the State of New York and the Province of Alberta, and has completed the ICD-Rotman, Directors Education Program.
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Founder, CEO
Jan is responsible for Arder's client value proposition and operations. After almost two decades in international LNG-focused commercial roles, he developed the business' concept, taking on board learnings from some of the world's most challenging energy projects. Most recently, he served as PetroChina Canada's Executive Vice President, accountable for Commercial, Marketing, Supply Chain Management and IT, with a special focus on the LNG value chain. In previous roles with Shell, Jan was based in the UK, Netherlands, Russia and Canada, including secondments into the Sakhalin 2 and LNG Canada joint ventures.
He has a Master of Science in Finance degree from Texas A&M University, and a graduate degree in Industrial Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He holds accounting qualifications in Canada (CPA, CMA) and the UK (ACMA, CGMA).
