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Leaders in industry

Shari Sentner, MBA, LLM

Founding Partner, CEO
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Shari is a founding partner of both Tallinn Energy and Wilrich Energy, and has spent her entire career in the debt capital markets with over 25 years of corporate and commercial lending experience across Western Canada.

Shari began her lending career at one of Canada's “Big 5” chartered banks where she spent ten years and undertook a number of commercial underwriting and lending roles of increasing seniority. Shari's responsibilities included managing cross border energy clients with credit needs in excess of $50MM.

With a life-long devotion to further education, she recently completed her Master of Laws degree through Osgoode Law School in Toronto. Shari also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the University of British Columbia.

Having grown up in Fort McMurray, Shari worked as a heavy haulage truck operator in the Canadian oilsands as a university summer student and is a strong advocate for Canadian oil having benefited firsthand from the opportunities that the energy sector provides to women and minorities.

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Alex Jackson, CFA

Founding Partner, CFO
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Alex is a founding partner of both Tallinn Energy and Wilrich Energy and brings more than 20 years of experience in finance roles with 18 years focused specifically on energy.

Alex has held roles advising both domestic and international energy companies on strategy and business development. Alex was formerly the president of a public service company and has worked both domestically and internationally in private equity and banking.

Alex has been involved with the analysis and valuation of upstream, midstream and downstream energy assets, as well as energy service sector companies. His experience extends to conventional and unconventional oil and gas properties throughout North America as well as Asia and South America.

Alex holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Royal Roads University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Calgary. Alex is a CFA Charterholder, a member of the Calgary CFA Society and of the Petroleum Acquisition and Divestment Association.

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Our Team Of Industry Experts

Wolfgang Papst, P Eng.
Senior Technical Advisor
Henry Dethmers
Senior Commercial Advisor
Carole Esterer
Accounting Manager