05 · Who we are
Built and backed by years of experience.
Calgary-based, in the field across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, and grounded in each well's own data.
Co-founders Joshua Anhalt and Steven Tulissi at the pilot wellhead, plunger in hand.
Leadership
Joshua Anhalt
CEO, Co-founder & Director
Josh is an entrepreneur with 22+ years in operations, business development and emissions management, as president of GreenPath Energy and later with Montrose Environmental Group. At Mbrace he leads the company and the field program.
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Steven Tulissi
CIO, Co-founder & Director
Steven has spent 22+ years in marketing, corporate communications and digital technology, including roles at Cenovus Energy and Husky Energy. At Mbrace he builds the platform: the data, the machine-learning models and the client portal.
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Rahul Bamotra
Strategic Advisor
P.Eng., M.Eng., MBA; 19+ years. Jacobs, Suncor Energy, CNRL, Deloitte, Cenovus.
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Kevin Krausert
Director
Kevin is the CEO and co-founder of Avatar Innovations, with 25+ years of executive leadership in energy innovation, and serves on the boards of Energy Safety Canada and the Energy Technology Centre Foundation, as well as the steering committee of the Clean Resource Innovation Network (CRIN).
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Vetted, funded and compliance-verified.
Mbrace was awarded $400,000 through NGIF Accelerator's Methane Reduction Demonstration Program, funded by the Government of Alberta through the TIER fund and matched by voluntary industry funding, to demonstrate how producers can restore production from liquid-loaded wells while eliminating routine venting and flaring.
$400,000
NGIF MRDP award
1 of 8
Made-in-Canada technologies selected
7 operators
Backing the program
Tourmaline Oil Corp. and Birchcliff Energy Ltd. are engaged as Mbrace moves into the next phase of field demonstration and commercialization, generating third-party validated results. Source: NGIF Accelerator announcement.
Avatar Ventures portfolio company. Built through Calgary's energy transition accelerator. Avatar CEO Kevin Krausert sits on the board.
Compliance verified. Registered through Veriforce ComplyWorks to meet operator vendor and safety requirements.
How we operate
Built for operators, measured by results.
Grounded. Every recommendation traces back to the well's own data, not a generic model assumption.
Local. Calgary-based crews operate across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
Aligned. The platform is designed against AER Directive 060 and Canada's federal methane regulations, built for the standard that takes effect in 2030.
Talk to the team that built it.
Talk to the team