Our Team » GIS-PAX
A unique collaboration of rare skills
GIS-pax is a private company based in Australia that has developed play analysis software for both the conventional and unconventional global oil and gas E&P industry. Our products have become the gold standard tools for Play Analysis in the upstream oil and gas industry today.
GIS-pax Senior Management
IAN LONGLEY
Geologist/Director
Ian has worked 30 years internationally as a Petroleum Geologist. He has held executive positions at Oil Search and Woodside and his international career includes senior positions with Shell and Lasmo. Ian is an Exploration Specialist with proven play analysis experience across many basins worldwide.
ALAN BOYS
CFO/Director
Alan is a Chartered Accountant with twenty years in public accounting practice. For the past fifteen years he has provided corporate advisory and company secretarial services to privately held and public listed companies. Alan has been CFO and Company Secretary to GIS-pax for the past 3 years and became a Director in 2016.
PAUL VENTRIS
Geologist
Paul has worked for over 25 years in international exploration and appraisal roles with large companies such as BP, Woodside, StatOil and Maersk. Paul has developed specialist play analysis skills and has worked across a wide range of projects from basin screening through to prospect maturation and drilling.
KEN HOOD
Consulting Geologist/Technical Advisor
Ken has 30 years of industry experience with ExxonMobil, working in roles including regional integration, resource assessment, GIS implementation, training, and creating assessment workflows and toolkits. Ken’s assessment expertise spans regional to prospect scales and includes both conventional and unconventional resources. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers and abstracts.
TOM GILES
Co-founder/Advisor
Tom has been an E&P and GIS software developer for 38 years and has worked at international E&P companies such as Woodside and at Esri, the industry leading GIS software company based in the USA. Tom is well respected as a GIS architect in the global petroleum community and is currently an advisor to GIS-pax.
GIS-pax Technical Support Team
WAYNE HEWITT
Technical Support Lead
Wayne has over 20 years of experience with GIS both as a developer and an end user. At Woodside, Wayne was the Exploration Support team manager responsible for support of the corporate application portfolio. At Esri, Wayne worked on design, test and documentation for numerous releases of ArcGIS Desktop.
DAVE WRIGHT
Support Team
Dave has more than 15 years’ experience in GIS E&P roles. This includes responsibility for providing support to Geoscience teams in Team Lead and GIS manager positions. Dave has worked for Mubadala Petroleum and several oil and gas service companies in the UK, UAE and Singapore.
FIONA TAINSH
Business Coordinator
Fiona has over 20 years of industry experience with Woodside, working in roles including the implementation of databases and software for spatial and non-spatial exploration data, implementation of exploration portfolio management systems and software, risk and governance management, and external and internal stakeholder management of international deep-water multi-well exploration drilling projects.
GIS-pax Development Team
BEN RALPH
Development Lead
Ben has been developing software for more than 20 years working in Australia, USA, and Europe. He started in GIS at Esri Australia with Tom, Wayne and Chris. Broadening his experience, he led development teams on large transit projects at ERG, and then solely wrote finance software for stock brokers. Ben’s broad experience in software development gives him a unique perspective for problem solving and helping our customers with difficult and challenging issues.
CHRIS FAHRNER
Software Development Team
Chris has been a software developer and analyst for 20+ years. Chris initially worked at Esri, the leading GIS software company and then spent almost 15 years at Woodside, before joining GIS-pax. He has been involved in all aspects of the software development life-cycle including business analysis, design, development and testing. Chris also brings with him a background in database administration.
GIS-pax Sales & Marketing
KELLY BOUCHER
Global Sales and Marketing Manager
Kelly spent 13 years in Europe as a professional basketball athlete and competed in two Olympics representing Canada. The past 16 years she has worked in Geoscience technical sales and marketing. She managed sales for an EM start up and multi-client seismic data companies where she was responsible for the Americas, Norway, Africa and SE Asia. With PGS she led a global rebranding and marketing campaign for multi-client and coordinated events and brand strategy.
CAMERON BOYS
Contracts and Finance Manager
Cameron is a corporate finance professional with experience in commercial credit analysis, asset valuation, business development and risk management. Cameron’s career has included roles as a senior commercial analyst for one of Australia’s largest banks, as well as market executive for an international advisory firm and corporate development manager for an ASX listed junior exploration company.