About Us.
We founded Arder Energy following international careers in banking and in the oil and gas industry, where our focus was on deal delivery and value chain integration mainly for major LNG projects. During that time, we realized just how critical power is to both operational resilience and long-term competitiveness. Yet, despite power consistently ranking as a top-five operating expense, it rarely gets the strategic attention it deserves. Industrial operators—ourselves included in our prior roles—often do not realize the immense agency they actually have to actively manage and reduce these costs.
We also saw a critical gap in how the power market operates. Traditional power consultants and developers rarely speak the language of heavy industry, and a static consulting report won't move the needle. Realizing real value requires execution—and execution demands a partner who understands your operational constraints as deeply as they understand the power grid's complex contractual, operational, and technical levers. We built Arder to bridge this gap, providing the end-to-end strategy, execution, and continuous analytics that heavy industry has been missing.
Founders
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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.
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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.
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