Transforming Power
into
Competitive Advantage
Resilient power strategies for industry and investors, anchored in interconnected gas and LNG markets
Markets, Technologies & Regulations are shifting: Are you prepared or exposed?
Power markets are entering their most significant structural shift in decades—with a "calm before the storm" that provides a short window to prepare. Power is no longer a static cost; it is now a driver of competitiveness, operational resilience, and long-term margin. We bring in-depth expertise in the Western Canadian energy market—where power, gas, and LNG are tightly interconnected—to develop and implement resilient power strategies for industrial clients and investors.
Our Services
With in-depth, frontline experience in the deeply interconnected power, gas and LNG markets, supported by proprietary analytics, we develop strategies to turn power into a competitive advantage for industrial clients and investors.
A strong strategy alone does not deliver results. Whether acting as your owner’s representative—freeing you to focus on your core business—or supporting your internal team in the background, we operationalize your power strategy.
Our capacity-building programs transfer power, gas and LNG insights, empowering your team to decode complex risks and seize emerging opportunities. This provides your organization with the context required to lead in dynamic markets.
Levers - Our Power Strategy Framework
We build strategies focused on implementation, prioritizing commercial outcomes over technical novelty to mitigate risk and enable modular, self-financing deployment. We analyze which contractual, operational, and investment-based levers provide the highest value to our clients, and develop corresponding roadmaps for execution.
Contractual
Structuring agreements that mitigate risk and lock in commercial advantages.
Operational
Optimizing day-to-day energy management to protect your margins.
Investment-Based
Deploying capital into resilient, high-yield energy assets.
Founders
-
Jan leads Arder’s operations and client value proposition, drawing on two decades of international leadership in the LNG sector.
Prior to founding Arder, Jan served as Executive Vice President at PetroChina Canada, where he was accountable for Commercial, Marketing, IT, and Supply Chain functions, and served on the LNG Canada Executive Committee.
Jan’s career began with Shell in London and The Hague, followed by a secondment to the Sakhalin 2 project as Contract Manager. In Canada, he provided M&A deal support before joining the LNG Canada Project as Commercial Deal Lead.
Jan holds a Master of Science in Finance from Texas A&M and a Graduate Industrial Engineering degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His background is further supported by CPA and CMA (Canada), ACMA and CGMA (UK) accounting qualifications, and the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation.
-
Co-Founder, President & General Counsel
JD, LLM, B.Sc., ICD.D
Sarah leads financing, legal, governance and external relationship management, including Arder's Advisory Board. She has held senior positions within LNG Canada (“LNGC”) / Shell and worked in investment banking with RBC Capital Markets, in law with McCarthy Tetrault, and had early career roles with the Privy Council Office in Ottawa and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has extensive capital markets experience and senior level commercial knowledge, having negotiated, evaluated and structured M&A, commercial and joint venture agreements for LNGC, and other previous clients.
Sarah holds a mid-career LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School, a JD from the University of Calgary, and a First Class Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University. She is called to the bar in the State of New York and the Province of Alberta, and has completed the ICD-Rotman, Directors Education Program.
Clients, Memberships & Supporters
TSX-listed Canadian Oil & Gas Company
Major Global Investment Bank
Privately-held Canadian Oil & Gas Company
TSX-listed Canadian Oil & Gas Company
Our Core Principle - Rigorous Focus
-
We deeply believe that we can only support clients if we truly understand their goals and act as an extension of their teams. This is our first and biggest focus area, and we strive to align our interests to those of our client at all times.
-
Our approach is informed and led by data. We take pride in rigorously applying analytics through all stages of an engagement.
-
The close incentive alignment with our clients and robust data analysis enable rigorously transparent solution delivery.