Alan Robert Burns
(Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, aged 67)
Alan Burns has been actively involved at senior levels in the oil and mining industries for over 35 years. In this period, Alan has been a Chairman, Managing Director and founder of companies that have participated in the exploration and development of onshore and offshore oil and gas fields internationally. Alan was also the founder of Hardman Resources Ltd of Australia, retiring as Chairman in 2006. Hardman Resources Ltd was acquired by Tullow Oil Plc, an international oil company, for approximately £650m. Hardman was responsible for the first commercial oil discoveries in Mauritania and Uganda. Alan has also been the founder of other international oil companies and retained substantial private oil interests, and is a founder of the BPC Group.
Dr Paul Daniel Crevello
(Chief Operating Officer, aged 57)
Dr Paul Crevello has thirty years experience in US domestic and international exploration in over 40 countries. He has received graduate degrees from the University of Miami and Colorado School of Mines. Paul joined Marathon Oil Company in 1978, where he directed worldwide carbonate geologic exploration research. In 1994, he started the first university petroleum studies in SE Asia, U. Brunei, and in 1997 founded Petrex Asia. As Managing Director, he developed Petrex Asia into the leading geologic exploration consulting firm in SE Asia, with exploration interests extending to the Gulf of Mexico, Italy and North Africa. Paul has received numerous awards and distinctions from international societies for authorship and invited papers on carbonate and sandstone reservoirs, AAPG International Distinguished Speaker, Chairman of Joides Ocean Drilling Program and numerous ancillary societies.
Timothy Stephen Jones
(Non-executive Director, aged 59)
Timothy Jones qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1974 where his clients included a major UK offshore oil and gas operator. In 1983, he joined Trident Television Plc before founding his own accountancy and consultancy practice in 1990. He now has clients in a range of business sectors and sits on the boards of a number of companies, including AIM listed Falkland Oil and Gas Limited. He is Chairman of Carnegie Minerals Plc, which is also AIM listed.
Mark Stuart Savage
(Non-executive Director, aged 51)
Mark Savage was born and educated in the United States of America where he received a business degree from the University of Colorado and was senior executive for a US bank before he joined an Australian based merchant bank. Mark Savage has experience in debt and equity markets as well as in the corporate advisory area. Mark is Chairman of Global Petroleum Limited which is a company listed on AIM and the Australian Securities Exchange and non-executive director of AIM listed Tower Resources Plc. He is also Chairman of CGA Mining Limited, a company listed on the Australia Securities Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Michael Joseph Proffitt
(Non-executive Director, aged 57)
Michael Proffitt is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of England and Wales and the former Chairman of Barclays Private Clients International and has substantial energy related experience. Michael is well known in the Bahamian business world having been instrumental in a number of major successful tourism and hotel developments in The Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean. He also has business affiliations in the City of London.
Robert Anthony Carroll
(Non-executive Director, aged 64)
Robert Carroll is a graduate in economics from the University of Sydney and a Fellow of CPA Australia with over 35 years experience in the resources industry, including 21 years in a number of senior finance executive positions with Woodside Petroleum Ltd where he was Chief Financial Officer from January 1997 until he retired in mid 2002. Robert has substantial experience in the financing of significant oil and gas development projects in Australia and overseas. He is a former director of ASX-listed companies Oil Search Ltd, Sydney Gas Ltd, Goldstar Resources NL and Hardman Resources Ltd where he succeeded Alan Burns as Chairman in July 2006 and successfully guided the company through an approximate £650m friendly takeover by Tullow Oil Plc.
