Born in Malaysia, where she lived most of her childhood years, Genga Nadaraju decided to venture to the U.S. for her postsecondary education. She obtained her geology degree at The College of Wooster, Ohio, and did her master’s degree at The University of British Columbia, Canada. Her career took her to Calgary, Alberta, where she has over 25 years of diverse professional experience in the oil and gas industry that includes business development, asset exploitation, strategic planning, and investor relations. Nadaraju is currently the VP Subsurface at Avanti Helium Corporation, a start-up helium company based in Calgary. She enjoys the outdoors, hiking in the Canadian Rockies, loves travelling, enjoys preparing and having meals with family and friends or just reading a good book. Currently, she is reading Knights in Retrograde from the Dynamicist Trilogy by Lee Hunt.