President
Hampson-Russell Software & Services

Following the acquisition of Hampson-Russell by Veritas in 2002 and CGG in 2007, Dan has continued as President of the Software Division of Hampson-Russell. He continues to direct his efforts towards expanding the Hampson-Russell customer base throughout the world, while furthering our research into AVO, Inversion and Reservoir Characterization.

His academic training includes a B.Sc. in Physics from Loyola College in Montreal in 1971, an M.Sc in Theoretical Physics from McMaster University in 1973 and an MBA from the University of Calgary in 1993. He has worked for Veritas Seismic Ltd. in Calgary, Phillips Petroleum in Houston, and Veritas Software Ltd. in Calgary, where he was Vice President of Research.

Dan is the originator of several innovative ideas in the field of seismic processing, including the Generalized Linear Inverse approach to refraction statics analysis and the Parabolic Radon Transform noise and multiple attenuation algorithm. He has published numerous articles on these techniques, and in both 1981 and 1987, received the best paper award for papers delivered at the CSEG convention. Dan has been active in the Canadian SEG and served as president for the 1996/97 term.