Brendan Ryan, Chief Executive Officer

Brendan’s extensive experience has been gained through more than 30 years in the oil and gas services industry working with global and private equity entities spanning the upstream, mid-stream and downstream segments.

He has worked in the areas of transportation/storage, fabrication, pipelines, flow measurement, inspection, deep-water survey and hydraulic fracturing silica dust mitigation. His roles have included managing operations and P&L;, sales strategy development, M&A; and driving business growth. He has demonstrated success integrating businesses to create growth and scale while transforming culture for optimum organizational accountability and commitment.

Before joining Hydrus Technology, Brendan held executive leadership positions with AIRIS Wellsite Services, UTEC Survey, Bredero Shaw, Shaw Pipeline Services and FMC Smith Systems.

Brendan is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (BAI Engineering, BA Mathematics) and Texas A&M;, Corpus Christi, Texas (MBA).

James Rees, Chief Financial Officer

James Rees joined Hydrus Technology in 2017 after serving on the company's advisory board. He has over twenty years of international experience in investment banking and management consulting at companies including PwC (Australia and the United States), Greenhill, and Credit Suisse.
Over the course of his career, James has advised clients from Asia, Australia, and the United States on strategy, performance improvement, mergers and acquisitions, and raising capital. James has a bachelor's degree in economics, a bachelor's degree in commerce, a graduate diploma in applied finance and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. James is also a chartered accountant and previously served as a director of TrademarkVision and the Australian American Association (Australia and the United States).

 

Steven Butel, Sales Director

Steven Butel joined Hydrus in 2016 as Business Development Manager. He has over 36 years of engineering design, process equipment packaging, water treatment, business development/sales and business management experience serving clients in the Oil & Gas, Industrial, Municipal and Mining sectors. Prior to joining Hydrus, Steven served as SVP Business Development & Sales for one of the world’s largest Oil & Gas service companies where he travelled extensively helping national and international clients solve their oil, gas and produced water treating challenges. Steven is a graduate of University of Saskatchewan with a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering.