Board of Directors

Douglas Freel joined ARC Financial Corp in 1998 and is focused on the oilfield service sector. With $6.0 billion of committed capital, ARC is the largest private equity firm focused exclusively on energy in Canada. Douglas joined ARC with over two decades of oilfield services industry experience in engineering and investment roles, including nine years with a major multi-national oilfield service company.

Douglas currently represents ARC as Chairman on the boards of Sanjel Energy Services Inc., Citadel Drilling Ltd., Lifting Solutions Energy Services Inc., Wayfinder Corp. and STEP Energy Services Ltd.

He holds an MBA from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Queen’s University. In addition, Mr. Freel sits as the Chairman of the Board for Impact Society.

Carl provides business analysis and analytical support relating to ARC’s investing activities. His responsibilities include monitoring portfolio investments, evaluating new investment opportunities, financial modeling and benchmarking. Carl currently represents ARC on the boards of Advanced Upstream Ltd. and Sanjel Energy Services Inc.

Carl joined ARC in 2018 with prior experience in the artificial lift sector with leading multinational service companies. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University, a Master of Business Administration from the Haskayne School of Business, is a Professional Engineer and a CFA Charterholder.

Pamela Wicks is the Chief Financial Officer of Pulse Seismic Inc.  She has held the position since 2010, having served as the VP Finance from 2007, following nine years in the business as the Corporate Controller. 

Pamela has been instrumental as finance lead in Pulse’s significant efforts to consolidate the seismic data library business in Canada, leading to Pulse achieving the position of being the largest seismic data library company in Canada. 

Pamela is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA) and received a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She also holds the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.  

Pamela has also used her finance knowledge to contribute to several non-profit organizations over the past decade, as a board director, committee member and chair of the audit and finance committees. 

Murray Bickley has more than 31 years of experience in the energy services industry in Canadian and International markets. Murray has held several senior leadership roles in operations, sales and strategic marketing throughout his career, including senior positions with one of the largest energy services firms in the world.