Specialize in oilfield equipment leasing, exploration, production and the oilfield service industry.

Gordon Smith has been a self-employed businessman since doing post-graduate studies in Business Administration and Urban Planning. He was Development Manager for a large publicly traded Western Canada based real estate development firm from 1976 to 1979 and a principal and promoter of commercial and industrial real estate syndications in the early 1980’s. He successfully completed several resource-based public offerings on the Vancouver and Alberta Stock Exchanges and has been active in domestic and international venture capital markets since the mid-1980s. In 1993 he founded Inter West Energy Corporation, a junior energy marketing and investment company, securing a supply contract with Western Gas Marketing (Trans Canada Pipeline Limited) for 500 million cubic feet of natural gas daily. Inter West Energy was subsequently acquired by New Cache Petroleum by way of a friendly takeover. In 1996 he was General Manager and then interim CEO for an international oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in the Arabian Gulf, Egypt and South East Africa. In 2003 he formed a group of Tax Driven Oil and Gas Syndicates to provide tax relief to investor clients until 2008. Since that time he has provided administrative and financial consulting services in corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions.