Mr. Tanushev received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UCLA in 2007 and a B.S. with Honors in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Caltech in 2002. Most recently, from 2007 to 2011, he was an NSF RTG Postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at UT Austin. Dr. Tanushev’s graduate and postdoctoral research was focused on high frequency wave propagation, in particular on methods based on Gaussian beams with applications in seismic migration. During his academic career, he has taught undergraduate courses, including multivariable calculus and real analysis, refereed articles for several scientific journals, and organized workshops on Gaussian beams.

He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Mr. Ceha joins the Z-Terra management team after working as Energy Consultant (Advisor, Investor) for the oil and gas industry in The Hague. He has more than 25 years of technology and operations experience in the oilfield services industry. His global experience and international contacts have been built over many years working internationally in senior positions for Schlumberger, the world leading Oilfield Service Company.

He served as Vice President Land Acquisition and Data Processing for WesternGeco, and has also taken on senior corporate roles as Director HR WesternGeco worldwide, based in the UK. Mr. Ceha also served as Geo-Market Manager in New Delhi, India for Schlumberger, managing the Oilfield Services in the region. He has lived and worked in Russia, India, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, West Africa and most recently The Hague, Netherlands. Mr. Ceha joined Schlumberger as a Field Seismologist in 1987. Mr. Ceha holds a BSc in Geophysics from The University of Calgary, and has had progressive Management Training with IMD Business School in Lausanne. He is a member of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).

Mr. Boese holds a B.Sc. (1991) in Geophysical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He began his career in 1991 working for Schlumberger-Geco as a seismic processor and Senior Field Geophysicist. In 1996 he joined Spectrum Geophysical as a Senior Marketing Geophysicist where he helped to grow Spectrum into one of the larger independent seismic processing companies in the industry.

In 2002 Mr. Boese joined Fugro-Jason. His roles with Fugro-Jason in Houston, Texas included Sales Manager for North and South America. In 2006 Ron moved to London, England as Business Manager of the Fugro-Jason London, UK office where he hired and managed an integrated technical team of Petrophysicists, Geophysicists, Geologists and Reservoir Engineers providing seismic to simulation services and software to Southern Europe and the Netherlands.

In 2009 Mr. Boese joined JOA Oil and Gas as Sales Manager for the Americas. He helped to establish the Jewel Suite Geological modeling software as a preferred tool for modeling unconventional reservoirs in the US. In 2010 the company was acquired by Baker Hughes, Inc. In 2011 Mr. Boese joined Spectraseis as Sales Director in the Houston office. In 2012 Mr. Boese joined Z-Terra.

Mr. Dowell received a BS in Geology from San Diego State University in 1981. From 1971 to 1975 he served in the United States Navy, Honorable Discharge, where he received the Presidential Unit Citation, the Republic of Vietnam Meritorious Unit Citation, the Vietnam Campaign Ribbon, the Vietnam Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal. In 1981 he joined Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) as a Geophysicist in the Data Processing Research and Development department. In 1987 GSI merged with Halliburton Geophysical Services (HGS) where Mr. Dowell worked as Senior Geophysicist until 1993, when HGS was acquired by Western Geophysical. At HGS Mr. Dowell continued his position in the Data Processing R&D group working on the development of different seismic processing applications, training, and Technical Sales. Mr. Dowell continued at Western Geophysical until 1995 as Senior Geophysicist.

In 1995 Mr. Dowell together with three colleagues from Western Geophysical founded Coherence Technology Company (CTC) a 3D seismic data processing company that pioneered Coherency Technology in the oil-and-gas market. At CTC he served as Vice President of Operations and helped grow the company from 3 people in a small office to 125 employees in five international processing centers: Houston and Dallas in the US; Calgary, Canada; London, England; Jakarta, Indonesia; Lagos, Nigeria.

In 1999 Mr. Dowell co-founded ESeis Inc., a company providing lithologic prediction and well planning services and software. As Chief Operating Officer he was responsible for processing operations, information systems, contract negotiation, financial planning and human resources. He negotiated the acquisition and merger of Ulterra Technologies, Geoscope Exploration Services and Expro to secure intellectual property, and raised seed capital.

In 2002 Mr. Dowell formed ADC Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration, geophysical and geological consulting company. As President/CEO he negotiated a joint exploration agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to prospect in the onshore GOM applying emerging seismic imaging and drilling technology to reduce risk and enhance reserves.

In 2008 Mr. Dowell joined 3DGeo as Senior Geophysicist in charge of Special Projects, and in 2010 Mr. Dowell joined Z-Terra Inc.

Mr. Musat is a software engineer and software architect with more than 15 years experience designing and implementing software products. He holds a M.Sc. in theoretical physics from the University of Bucharest.

Mr. Musat was one of the main developers at 3DGeo, where he authored many of the company’s flagship products. Mr. Musat’s previous employment includes CornerSoft Technologies where he worked as a software developer and then as a team leader for several successful Internet based projects, covering areas like distributed project management systems, distributed processing systems or online banking. Prior to CornerSoft he worked for Dante Systems, were he developed real time, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) and MMI (Man-Machine Interface) applications.

Dr. Popovici is the founder and former CEO of 3DGeo Inc. The company grew from 2 employees in Palo Alto CA, to an international corporation with offices in Houston TX, Santa Clara CA, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, and representation in Beijing and The Hague. In 2001, 3DGeo was recognized as one of the Top 100 Innovative Companies by InfoWorld. In 2007, 3DGeo won the Hart E&P Meritorious Award for Engineering Innovation, nicknamed the “Oscar” in Geophysics. In 2008, 3DGeo won the IEEE Spectrum Technology award. 3DGeo Inc was sold in 2008.

Dr. Popovici holds a Ph.D. (1995) and a M.Sc. (1991) in geophysics from Stanford University, and an equivalent B.S. (1985) in geophysical and geological engineering from University of Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Popovici’s industry experience includes work in the seismic processing research department for Halliburton Geophysical Services in Dallas and Houston, and EM acquisition and processing contracts with the University of Bucharest, Romania. From 1987 to 1988, he was employed at Guzik Technical as a staff engineer for magnetic recording and software development, and was a consultant there until 1993. He has several patents in the field, over 70 publications in conference proceedings, books, trade journals, and research reports and has given numerous invited talks at conferences, geophysical associations, and geophysical workshops. He is past Chairman and founding board member of Geoscientists Without Borders, an SEG Foundation program that funds humanitarian applications of geophysics around the world.