Prairie Storm Energy Corp. will be led by Ross as president and CEO, Panchmatia as VP finance and CFO, Groten as VP exploration, Morrison as VP operations and Din as VP business development. The board of directors will initially be comprised of Ross and Din, Craig Glick and Christopher Ray, who both serve as senior managing directors of NGP, Brian Minnehan, a managing director of NGP, Bruce Waterman and R. Keith MacLeod. Waterman was most recently an executive vice-president of Agrium Inc., and has also served as chief financial officer. Waterman currently serves as a director of Encana Corporation, Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. and Irving Oil
Limited. MacLeod most recently held the position of chairman and chief executive officer of Sproule Associates Ltd. He currently serves as a director of Trilogy Energy Corp. and Manitok Energy Inc. John Swendsen, vice-chairman of corporate and investment banking for the National Bank of Canada, has also been appointed as a special advisor to the board of directors.