Denise has over 25 years of operations and supply chain management experience as both a consultant and in senior leadership roles. Her career includes varied refined products and retail operations positions in both Canada and the US, while the last decade focused on creating and implementing significant strategic initiatives in organizations mainly in the upstream oil and gas sector.

While in the US, Denise was part of an "Integrated Operations Team" with a mandate to optimize the refinery output and distribution of over 300,000 BPD across western US which included pipelines, marine, rail, trucking, retail and wholesale. Her role was to bring a custom built pricing and analytics system live, and then focus on the pricing, strategy and analysis across different channels. Back in Canada she led the turnaround of a national retail chain which resulted in a 30% increase in EBITDA budget to actual. After living in six cities in over three years, she left the corporate world to pursue a PhD in engineering with a focus on project management and strategy.

Today she works as an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management at Mount Royal University with a research program focused on major capital project decision making in the oil and gas industry.