Mr. Joo has over 20 years of broad experience gained in various senior management roles for legal, commercial, new business development, internal audit and government affairs in energy companies. He also held expatriate positions at Cuulong Joint Operating Company in Vietnam, and Dana Petroleum Plc in the United Kingdom. Mr. Joo holds a bachelor of law degree from Seoul National University, and currently serves as SVP of America and Europe Business Dept. at KNOC.
With over 29 years of extensive experience in accounting and finance since 1996, Mr. Choi currently serves as the Senior Vice President of the Finance and Accounting Dept, KNOC. Previously, he led the Accounting Team as General Manager from 2014 to 2018 and from 2023 to 2026, with an interim role as CFO at Harvest Operations Corp., from 2018 to 2022. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Chung-Ang University, South Korea.
Mr. Seo is a certified and professionally qualified public accountant with KPMG in Korea and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Hanyang University in Seoul. He has been with KNOC for 20 years working in various roles and locations, including leading the subsidiaries business, finance management and business planning. His international assignments have included Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Dana Petroleum in UK, Financial Director at Altius Petroleum in Kazakhstan, and a CFO Advisory at Savia in Peru. He has held a number of senior roles within KNOC most recently as General Manager for America/Europe Business Department prior to assuming his current leadership position at Harvest.
Mr. Jung is a CFA Charterholder who holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Sungkyunkwan University. He brings over 26 years of extensive expertise across diverse areas of corporate finance, accounting, treasury, and risk management. During 18 years in KNOC, he oversaw treasury operations, corporate accounting, annual budgeting, and financial risk management. He served in key leadership roles, including budget team lead, treasury team lead, and managerial accounting manager in Harvest Operations Corp.
Mr. Kim was appointed as Chief Operating Officer and Director of Harvest in February 2024. He graduated from Ulsan University with a Bachelor degree of Chemical Engineering. Mr. Kim started work at a petrochemical plant as a process engineer in 1995. Afterwards, joined KNOC in 2004 and has a total of 30 years of experience with field development, facility design, operation, production, energy management, and project management. Prior to joining Harvest, as a general manager, he has taken successful field development in UAE and facility optimization tasks for global KNOC’s operation fields from 2019 to January 2024.
Mr. Chipeur is a partner at the law firm of Miller Thomson, LLP and a member of the Law Societies of Alberta and British Columbia. Over the last four decades, his practice has focused on business, public policy and regulatory matters. Gerry has pleaded cases before both administrative tribunals and the courts, including over two dozen matters in the Supreme Court of Canada. Gerry served three terms as the Chair of the Calgary Homeless Foundation and currently serves on the Criminal Code Review Board. He also teaches the negotiation of Indigenous rights at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. As well, Gerry is the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Korea in Alberta.