Justin Pettit is a strategic advisor to the oil & gas industry with 25 years of experience as an oil company corporate development executive, bulge‐bracket investment banker, and management consultant. Mr. Pettit entered the industry in 1992 as a senior business planner with Norcen Energy Resources and went on to a successful career on Wall Street. His previous roles include Partner at boutique restructuring and enterprise improvement firm Stern Stewart & Company, Global Head of Strategic Advisory for UBS Investment Bank, and Lead Partner for M&A advisory in the energy and chemicals practice of Booz & Company (and Booz Allen Hamilton). He is the author of two books on capital strategies as well as numerous papers. Mr. Pettit holds a BASc (Mechanical Engineering) from University of Toronto and an MBA from Western University, with continuing education in Petroleum Geology (TU Delft) and Reservoir Geomechanics (Stanford). He is an active member of the New England Chapter of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).