
Brad Monaco, former CFO of Parkland Corp., joins Freehold Royalties as chief financial officer. He brings buy-side and upstream energy experience to the royalty company.
Freehold Royalties Ltd. appointed Brad Monaco as its chief financial officer, effective June 22. Monaco most recently served as CFO of Parkland Corp., a fuel distributor and refiner with a market cap roughly $5 billion. Before that, he was vice president of finance for Parkland’s Canadian unit, where he oversaw financial planning, performance improvement, acquisitions and integration.
Monaco is a CFA charterholder and holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Calgary. Earlier in his career he worked in upstream energy and buy-side investment management. Those roles give him exposure to both the asset side and the investor side of the business, said David Spyker, Freehold’s president and CEO, in a statement.
“Brad brings relevant and recent experience across finance, strategy, and capital markets,” Spyker said. “This experience, alongside his investor perspectives, will complement our team and support Freehold’s long-term strategy and continued focus on disciplined capital allocation.”
Freehold is a royalty company, not an operator. It owns 6.0 million gross acres in Canada and 1.2 million gross drilling acres in the United States. Its revenue comes from mineral rights payments, not from drilling wells. That means the CFO role here is less about operational finance and more about portfolio management and capital allocation between dividends and acquisitions.
Monaco’s experience at Parkland, which runs a large retail fuel network and refineries, represents a different part of the energy business. His earlier upstream work and investment background line up more closely with the company’s asset base. Investors may watch for any signal that Freehold plans to accelerate its US acreage build or pursue larger royalty packages, given Monaco’s M&A integration history.
The company did not disclose the departure of Monaco’s predecessor. Freehold shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker FRU.
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