
	Mr. Dyck brings over 25 years of experience in largely senior financial and leadership roles within the Canadian energy industry and brings to Penn West a proven value creation track record. He was most recently the CFO of a Calgary energy company focused on developing natural gas conversion projects combined with in-situ coal gasification technology. Prior to that, David served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ivanhoe Energy Inc, an independent international heavy oil development and production company, where he was instrumental in reorganizing and refocusing that company&#39;s efforts worldwide. Mr. Dyck also founded and was the CEO of a capital advisory firm which completed over $1 billion in financing and restructuring transactions, and spent approximately seven years with Western Oil Sands Inc. (&quot;Western&quot;) as Senior Vice President, Finance and CFO, with primary responsibility for finance, accounting, tax and investor relations. During his time at Western, David was instrumental in growing the company from a start-up oil sands company to a company with a market capitalization in excess of $6 billion and 70 employees.
