Mike Hopkins
Mike Hopkins serves as Ice Energy’s CEO.
Prior to joining the company in 2009, Mike practiced law for 18 years as a partner with Bennett Jones LLP, a pre-eminent Canadian law firm and global leader in energy and climate change. He specialized in the development and financing of oil and gas fields and power projects, served on the firm’s executive committee and led its utilities, international, and independent power groups.
He left Bennett Jones in 2003 to lead the workout of a private data center developer that resulted in its sale. Next, Mike co-founded a geospatial information services company and assisted several other startups.
Mike is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the American Bar Association. He has presented to the Energy Bar Association (EBA), the World Energy Engineering Congress (WEEC), the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation (CELF), the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), the Independent Power Producers’ Society of Alberta (IPPSA) and the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA).
Mike is a member of the board of chancellors of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International; a member of the board of directors and past chairman of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada; a member of the board of trustees, treasurer and past chairman of Sansum Medical Research Institute; a member of the board of directors of Integrated Marine Education and Research Expeditions and a member of the board of directors of Orthoshop Geomatics, Ltd., a spin-off of the geomatics company he co-founded.
He earned BA and LLB degrees from the University of Ottawa, an M.A. (Law and Economics) from the University of Miami, and an MBA from the University of Alberta.