Sonny Mottahed

Shahin (Sonny) Mottahed has more than 20 years of Oil & Gas and Finance experience and is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Black Spruce Merchant Capital. Prior thereof, Mr. Mottahed was the Managing Director, Investment Banking & Head of International Oil & Gas at Raymond James in Calgary where he created the International Exploration & Production practice and grew it in three years to #1 ranked in Canada by market share. In four years at Raymond James, Mr. Mottahed was involved with $4 billion of capital raised, 75 financings and 34 lead mandates. Mr. Mottahed’s direct oil & gas experience includes business development at Nexen Inc., management consulting at Offshore Management Solutions, business analyst at El Paso and business development at Integrated Logistic Services.