Board of directors

Steven has over 45 years’ oil and gas industry and investment banking experience. He held senior and executive roles at Iraq Petroleum, Amoco, BP, Mesa, Chase Manhattan Bank, NatWest Markets and CIBC and a variety of board positions including non-executive director and Senior Independent Director of Tullow Oil plc and independent director at First Quantum Minerals Ltd and Songa Offshore SE.

Steven is currently Chairman of Kenmare Resources plc, a FTSE-listed mineral sands mining company.

David spent 37 years at BP, where he was Chief Geologist (1979), General Manager, Exploration (1984) and then Chief Executive, Technology for BP Exploration (1987) for ten years.

He retired at the end of 1998 with the position of Chief Technology Adviser for BP Group. Following retirement from BP, he held a variety of advisory and board positions including nine years on the board of BHP Billiton and he was a member of the advisory board of Riverstone Holdings.

John has over 30 years’ oil industry experience, having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in 1981. He is a Fellow of The Association of Corporate Treasurers and member of Chartered Institute of Taxation. John spent 11 years at Enterprise Oil, where he was Business Development Manager and subsequently Group Treasurer. He was Finance Director of a number of listed exploration and production companies, including Premier Oil 1999–2005 and Managing Director, Head of Oil and Gas, at RBS 2007–2008. Since 2010 John has worked as a consultant and as a non-executive director of a number of listed E&P companies.

John is currently the Chairman of Global Petroleum Limited, an ASX and AIM-listed company.

Sandy has over 35 years’ oil and gas industry experience, focussed on legal and commercial roles. From 2008 until its takeover in 2013, Sandy was Executive Director Corporate & Commercial, and Company Secretary of Valiant Petroleum, a company of which she was a founder and initially a non-executive director. She has also held senior executive positions including as Group Legal Counsel and/or Commercial Director for a number of other oil and gas companies including Consort Resources, LASMO, Esso Petroleum and Marathon Oil.

Sandy is currently a non-executive director of Velocys plc, an AIM-quoted sustainable fuels company.

Beverley is a chartered geologist and an accomplished business leader with more than 30 years’ experience in the upstream oil and gas sector, having delivered a portfolio of achievements in a successful international career with BG Group, most recently as Vice President Exploration & Growth for Europe. Ms Smith has a background in development and production geology and subsurface management, notably in Trinidad (Hibiscus, Poinsettia and Ixora Fields), Tunisia (Hasdrubal Field) and various operated developments in the U.K. including Mercury, Neptune, Minerva, Apollo, Fleming, Drake and Jackdaw Fields and other non-operated developments. Ms Smith is also a non-executive director of Touchstone Exploration Inc. and holds a B.Sc. in Geology and an M.Sc. in Petroleum Geology.