Team

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Chad Edinger, Chief Executive Officer

Chad Edinger is a highly accomplished terminal and pipeline operations executive in the petrochemical and midstream energy infrastructure industry. Bringing 20 years of experience across the United States, Chad is responsible for JET Infrastructure’s operations, including business development, growth, safety and sustainability and community engagement initiatives.

Throughout his career, Chad has held a variety of operating, commercial, and leadership roles within the refined product terminal and pipeline sector. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for NuStar Energy LP (formerly Kaneb Pipeline) where he led operations and growth strategies within stringent regulatory environments for one of the largest terminal and petroleum liquids pipeline operators in the United States, optimizing assets through expansions, mergers and acquisitions, talent development and commercial marketing.

Chad also has a strong record of safety and operational excellence, with deep insight into every aspect of midstream terminal and pipeline operations, including community and environmental stewardship, quality customer service, best-in-class health and safety protocols and talent management.

Chad holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geology/Biology from the University of Wyoming, and an MBA in Finance from the Keller Graduate School of Management at DeVry University.

ADVISORY BOARD 

Graeme Burnett

Graeme Burnett has over 40 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry, including petrochemicals project management, fuel optimization, and product refinement.

Following four years with Foster Wheeler conducting EPC projects, Graeme joined the Total Group where he made a successful career in worldwide operations, including holding high-level executive positions in North and South America, Europe and Asia, culminating in the position of President & CEO of Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA. In 2013, following his retirement from Total Group, he joined Delta Air Lines as SVP Fuel Management, responsible for their Trainer Refinery asset (Monroe Energy) in Pennsylvania and serving as the executive liaison for the Dallas, Texas market, connecting and engaging with Delta’s employees and high valued customers.

He is Chairman of the Board of Monroe Energy LLC and is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Fuels & Petrochemicals Manufacturing Association. He is also a member of the Board of Agilyx SA, an innovative waste plastics recycling company.

Graeme has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Teesside University, and in 2013 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Teesside University.

Jim Dougan

Jim Dougan is currently the principal of J.F. Dougan Consulting and has over 35 years of development and construction experience in Canada and the United States. Jim was most recently President, Central and Eastern Canada, for PCL Constructors Canada Inc., where he was responsible for PCL’s district office operations from Manitoba to Newfoundland, a region that has historically completed between $2.0 billion and $2.5 billion in construction volume annually. He also served as a Director for the Corporation, PCL Construction Holdings Ltd. Prior to joining PCL, Jim worked as a consultant with the Ontario Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal to help put together the Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP) program and joined Infrastructure Ontario (IO) at its inception as Executive Vice-President, Project Delivery where he provided project oversight and strategic direction leading IO’s team in all areas of project development, including legal, finance, communications and project management. Under his leadership, IO brought 33 major infrastructure projects to market with a capital volume of $10.2 billion of which 27 projects ($6.5 billion) were under construction or completed.

Jim’s prior experience includes serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of Falls Management Company, where he was responsible for the successful development of the $1 billion, 2.5 million-square-foot Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario. This development, which at the time was the largest social infrastructure project in Canada, was a public-private partnership with the Province of Ontario using a design, build, finance and operate delivery model.

Jim also spent over 22 years with Canada’s largest publicly-traded construction and infrastructure development company, BFC Construction Group (now Aecon Group Inc.), including as Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation and the President of the company’s Building Division.