Dan Carruthers

After receiving his PhD in Petroleum Engineering, in 1998 Dan founded The Permedia Research Group, an Ottawa-based company focused on the numerical modeling and visualization of subsurface oil and gas flows. Permedia software was used all over the world by the industry’s leading oil and gas companies. In 2010, Permedia was acquired by Halliburton.

Dan is very active within Ottawa’s startup community; he joined the Capital Angel Network first as an investor and later as a board member and has invested in and supported a number of emerging technology companies including Blacksumac, the developer of Piper.

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