Terry Bendera
Chief Operating Officer at Voran

Terry is a natural leader, innovator, and philanthropist with a clear vision for how he wants to leave his legacy. The development of high performing teams and winning cultures in the businesses he leads could be considered the key to his repeated success in the energy and consumer goods industries. But his skill sets reach far beyond that.

Before joining Voran, Terry’s passion for finding solutions to the most challenging problems and unmet needs resulted in creating Prostar Energy and offering an innovative, fully automated well-servicing rig with unparalleled performance. Developing a regime around intellectual property protection, a laser focus on his teams' safety and well-being, and an obsession with delivering best-in-class service, he lead Prostar Energy to a top position serving domestic and international E&P companies. Terry’s business successes showcase only one facet of his tremendous ability to bring people and ideas together. His non-profit foundation, the Zug Foundation, has raised over $600,000 in the last six years to support local families with children who have met undeserved challenges.

As Chief Operating Officer at Voran, Terry leads strategy development and execution, operations management, and product development from prototype to full-scale manufacturing. Terry holds a certificate from Stanford Graduate School for Executive Education, "Managing Teams for Innovation and Success," and co-author of the insightful guide to collaboration, “Blind spotting."