Leadership

Perry Turbes has been a Quorum veteran for over 15 years and was the former Chief Operating Officer of Quorum. Throughout his over 17 years in the oil and gas industry, Mr. Turbes’ expertise has focused on the business processes of companies operating in the upstream, midstream and pipeline sectors of the market. Before joining Quorum, Mr. Turbes worked in the natural gas plant accounting group at Duke Energy Field Services (now DCP Midstream). While with Quorum, he has filled a variety of roles throughout the full product development and Client delivery life cycles, including Practice Area leader for the Midstream Energy solutions group

Jordan Copland is EVP Finance and Operations and CFO of Quorum Business Solutions and brings more than 30 years of combined strategic, operational, financial and business development leadership at both public and private companies to his current role.

Before joining Quorum, Copland held chief financial officer positions at Omnitracs, LLC the global pioneer of innovative software and SaaS fleet management solutions serving the transportation sector, Harbor Freight Tools, a vertically-integrated, private label retailer of tools and equipment, and GSI Commerce, an e-commerce, multichannel and interactive marketing technology solutions provider. He also served previously in a host of senior finance and business development positions during his nine-year tenure at The Walt Disney Company.

Copland earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations, and master’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bruce Wartell is one of Quorum’s founders and has been instrumental in guiding the technical approach and evolution for many of Quorum’s products. Prior to founding Quorum in 1998, Mr. Wartell spent 8 years at Accenture in a variety of roles in both the technical solutions and energy solutions practices. Mr. Wartell has over 25 years of practical experience in the design and development of software architecture for a wide variety of enterprise class products primarily in the energy industry. His primary responsibility at Quorum today is helping lead the transformation of the company’s products and infrastructure to a software as a service model that can be hosted in the public or private cloud. Mr. Wartell holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Texas at Austin and also serves as an elected member of the UT ECE Advisory Board.

Olivier Thierry (“OT”) is the Chief Marketing Office for Quorum. Prior to Quorum, Mr. Thierry held executive leadership positions in several successful private and public software and technology corporations. He has built and managed high performance marketing teams in software companies in systems and network management, security management, applications development and middleware, SaaS, open source, storage, unified collaboration, virtualization and cloud, and oil & gas. Most recently, he served as Chief Marketing Officer for Zimbra, Inc., a global leader in unified collaboration. Prior to Zimbra Olivier also served as CEO of Fiveruns, CMO at Zenoss, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Alliances at NetIQ. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree (Cum Laude) with a double major in marketing, and computers and systems from McGill University in Montreal Canada.

Tyson Greer leads the Software organization at Quorum and is responsible for product and technology direction in addition to overseeing innovation, engineering, product management & customer success across the company’s entire portfolio of software solutions serving the energy value chain. With over 15 years in both technology and energy, he brings a unique depth and breadth of experience across both domains to the role in addition to a proven track record of innovation and leading high performing teams. While at Quorum he has filled a variety of roles including product management, software development, solutions consulting and leading Quorum’s Energy Transportation and Marketing vertical. Mr. Greer holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.

Lindsey Herndon Goodgion is Chief Sales Officer for Quorum. In this role, Mrs. Goodgion is responsible for all sales, account management, and commercial activities worldwide. With 15 years of oil and gas industry experience, Mrs. Goodgion has held a variety of roles within Quorum including key roles in Client Delivery and Product Support. Mrs. Goodgion holds a BA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Roy Queener joined Quorum in 2005, developing over a decade of experience delivering technology to the oil and gas industry for companies ranging from juniors to supermajors. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Queener has cultivated a strong passion for driving a customer focus and creating innovative solutions. Most recently, Mr. Queener was responsible for Quorum's U.S. Midstream & Transportation commercial activities as an Account Manager and currently leads Quorum’s Canadian Business Unit. Queener holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.

Mike Lake was the founder and CEO of MOSAIC Integration, which was acquired by Entero Corporation in 2003. At Entero, Mr. Lake held the position of COO and lead Operations for both MOSAIC and Entero ONE product portfolios, including project consulting and client services. Entero was acquired in 2018 by Quorum to complement their upstream and midstream software portfolios. Mr. Lake now serves as President Quorum Entero MOSAIC and he brings over 30 years of experience in oil and gas, software technology, and business advisory with companies like Gulf Canada, Norcen Energy Resources Ltd, Deloitte Consulting, and Launchworks. Mr. Lake holds a BSc in Engineering from Queen’s University and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Eric Hazeldine earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and joined Quorum in 1999. His ability to relate to people, learn new subjects quickly, and his attention to detail have been key to his success. Eric has held a variety of leadership positions throughout the company, including leading Quorum Canada through a six-year period of substantial customer and revenue growth. Eric has been instrumental in establishing Quorum as the industry standard software provider to the oil & gas market in North America. Eric believes that there is always a way to get a customer the result they need, and enjoys seeing this happen in his current role as Strategic Account Executive.

David Townsend leads the Services organization at Quorum where he is responsible for driving the strategy, methodology, and execution of Quorum’s professional services and outsourcing practice. With over 19 years of professional services experience in technology and energy, he brings a breadth of experience in leading high performance teams and working with clients to drive their digital transformation. Prior to joining Quorum, David spent 12 years with Accenture. In his role as an Account Executive, he was primarily responsible for client engagement, program planning, as well as proposal development in the Resources Market Unit. Mr. Townsend holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University.

Kip Amedeo brings over 20 years of technology sales experience to Quorum and is the Senior Vice President of Sales, where he drives the company’s strategy and execution on revenue-connected aspects of the business. Kip came to Quorum from Diebold Nixdorf, where he led the North America Software Sales Organization and helped lead the company’s transformation from being hardware centric to being software and services oriented. Prior to Diebold Nixdorf, Kip held leadership roles during his six years at SAP, including Vice President of Sales, Vice President of Strategic Alliances, and Vice President of Channels. Prior to SAP, Kip was with Siemens for ten years where he held various roles including Vice President of Sales and Director of Corporate Strategy and Development. Kip holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Texas A&M University and an MBA in technology commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin.

Shawn Cutter is his family’s 2nd generation in the oil and gas industry and has spent 15 years in information technology, focused on BI, Integration, and BigData. Mr. Cutter founded his own cloud-based oil and gas software service company, Fielding Systems, which was acquired by Quorum in 2015. Mr. Cutter now serves as a Vice President at Quorum, where he continues to expand Quorum’s software services, specializing in field production optimization, operations, measurement, and SCADA.

Dan Wallin joined Quorum in 2017, following more than 20 years in various technology leadership roles with SunGard Data Systems. Dan is responsible for leading Quorum’s product strategy and roadmap, as well as overseeing the Customer Support function. In his time at SunGard, Mr. Wallin had P&L responsibility for multiple software products in the Insurance, Healthcare, and Financial Services space. In addition, he led services teams supporting clients and implementing projects, including with Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Wallin holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from John Brown University, and an MBA from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

M. Sean FitzGerald brings 20 years of software engineering leadership experience to Quorum. As Vice President of Engineering his primary responsibility is overseeing the development, release, and maintenance of Quorum’s software applications and establishing the Engineering group’s strategic long term goals. Prior to joining Quorum, Mr. FitzGerald lead large-scale and high-availability software products and services at Diablo Management Group, Visual Numerics, Rogue Wave Software, and X-ISS. He holds Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems and an MBA in IT Management from the University of Athabasca in Canada. Mr. FitzGerald sits on Auburn University’s Computer Science & Software Engineering (CSSE) Advisory Board and volunteers his time to Houston oil and gas software start-ups.

Charles Jeffery founded WellEz and disrupted the traditional software model by developing an innovative SaaS based field reporting platform in 2000, instantly removing many limitations inherent in license based software. Opening a new market sector, enabling smaller operating companies without large IT budgets access to a technically superior, secure and dynamic reporting capability. He built the business over 17 years into the premier provider of field data reporting for the upstream oil and gas sector. WellEz was acquired in 2017 by Quorum to complement their upstream software portfolio. Mr. Jeffery has over 35 years of international experience in the upstream oil & gas industry and now serves as Vice President - WellEz Division at Quorum, where he continues to expand Quorum's software services.

Soroosh Seyhoon joined Quorum in 2006 and currently serves as Vice President responsible for Business Development and Inside Sales. Mr. Seyhoon has over 15 years of experience in software consulting, implementations, and sales. He has held a variety of leadership roles working closely with product management, product support, and Quorum’s services organization. In the past, Mr. Seyhoon has been the Upstream Consulting Lead responsible for staffing projects and ensuring project deliverables met the highest standards. He serves regularly as a client executive to project teams helping achieve success and works with client stakeholders to ensure alignment with their goals. Mr. Seyhoon holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Economics from Columbia University.

Megan Yunker is Vice President of Product Marketing at Quorum. Ms. Yunker brings over 10+ years of success developing and executing go-to-market strategies for growing companies, combining modern tactics for demand generation with data-driven marketing. Her professional experience also spans brand management, content marketing, sales enablement, analyst relations, public relations, demand generation, digital marketing, and marketing automation for enterprise software companies. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and MBA from The University of Texas at Austin – Red McCombs School of Business.

Steve Robb is the Vice President of Quorum Canada, leading Quorum’s Canadian sales team. Prior to Quorum’s acquisition of Entero in 2018, Mr. Robb was Entero’s Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing where he was responsible for accelerating Entero’s growth and market presence for Entero ONE and MOSAIC across North America. Mr. Robb brings over 25 years of experience in oil and gas software, business development, sales, marketing and strategic product positioning, delivering the growth for some of the most recognizable products in the segment during his tenure with Cimation (now Accenture), CygNet Software (now Weatherford) and Telvent (now Schneider). Mr. Robb attended Niagara College and obtained an Electronics Engineering Technician diploma, and is certified as an Engineering Technologist (CET).