Seven Generations Energy Ltd. appointed Derek Aylesworth as its Chief Financial Officer responsible for the company's finance, treasury, accounting, tax and capital markets functions, with effect from March 15, 2018. Aylesworth is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Painted Pony Energy Ltd. and was previously Chief Financial Officer at Baytex Energy Ltd., assignments where he was primarily responsible for capital markets, financial reporting and compliance, financial risk management, tax and treasury functions. Before that, Derek held senior management and financial positions in international business units of Encana Corporation.

Derek began his professional career at Ernst & Young. As announced in November 2017, 7G's current CFO Chris Law will become Executive Vice President, Strategy Management once Aylesworth joins the company.