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2021 Rising Star Awards Attract 30 Nominations

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Leader. Collaborator. Mentor. Advocate for diversity and inclusion. Technology savvy.  

Those are just a few of the attributes of the 30 outstanding young professionals — including 12 women — who have been nominated as Rising Stars of 2021. They are prepared to seize the opportunities offered by an industry beginning to recover from the double whammy of an extended downturn followed by a global pandemic, just as prices begin to strengthen. At the same time there is a recognition that the world has changed and the energy industry is being expected to demonstrate its commitment to environment, social and governance and a number of the nominees are employed or have founded companies committed to working with their clients on ESG.

The Rising Stars program, sponsored by the Daily Oil Bulletin, Fluor Canada and geoLOGIC systems ltd., celebrates the dynamic young leaders who have faith that the Canadian energy sector — although it might not look the same — continues to offer opportunities for a new generation. They come from various disciplines including technology, finance, communications, engineering, environmental management, and business development and analysis.

The nominees for 2021 are: […]

Vicki Knott: Passionate about the automation of the energy midstream industry to increase safety and efficiency, Knott is the chief executive officer and co-founder of tech company CruxOCM. It has developed a scalable, off-the-shelf software to fully automate the execution of procedures, checklists and rules-of-thumb for control room operators. Knott wants to revolutionize heavy industry control room operations while embedding environmental, social and governance practices into everything that CruxOCM does. A graduate in chemical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, she has been working in the field for the last 10 plus years. At TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., Knott worked in commercial operations, process control engineering and spent significant time in the control room. Only 33, she also is skilled at raising capital for CruxOCM, including $7.6 million through her last fundraising round. READ THE FULL ARTICLE.

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