Leadership Team
| Philip O'Quigley, Chief Executive Officer | |
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Philip O’Quigley was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Falcon Oil & Gas in April 2012. O’Quigley brings 20 years’ experience in finance positions in the oil and gas industry. His career, which spans a number of London and Dublin listed E & P companies, includes experience working in countries such as Argentina, the United States, Algeria, the UK and Ireland. Most recently, he served as Finance Director for Providence Resources, an Irish oil and gas exploration and production company.
O’Quigley is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in Dublin. |
| Roderick J. Wallis, Chief Operating Officer | |
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Mr. Wallis is a respected expert in his field with almost 30 years of operational and consultancy experience in countries including Egypt, UK North Sea, USA (Alaska and the Rockies), Trinidad, Peru and Hungary. Rod spent the majority of his career as a geologist ranging from exploration to field appraisal and development, reservoir management and field rehabilitation. First, with BP for 11 years and then helping grow the start-up company, Venture Production, to a highly successful company over a 5 year period. Prior to joining Falcon, he was the Senior Exploration Geologist for PetroHunter Energy Corporation. Rod also served as Vice President and Chief Geologist at Gustavson Associates. Mr. Wallis obtained his degree at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, and is a member of the AAPG, PESGB, RMAG and a Fellow of the Geological Society. |
| Evan L. Wasoff, Chief Financial Officer | |
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Mr. Wasoff is Chief Financial Officer of Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. Evan has 30 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant. In 1985, he founded Wheeler Wasoff, P.C., a Denver, Colorado CPA firm specializing in companies filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Wasoff has been a consultant to Chartered Accounting firms in Calgary, Alberta, and Vancouver, British Columbia in securities matters and financial reporting issues in Canada and the United States. Mr. Wasoff holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado and a BS in Accounting from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a licensed CPA in Colorado and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Colorado Society of Certified Public Accountants. |
| Dr. György Szabó, Director and Managing Director of TXM Exploration & Production | |
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Dr. Szabó has been a Director of Falcon since 2006. He has also served as Consultant and Mining Bureau Registered Technical Responsible Person for Falcon’s wholly-owned subsidiary TXM Oil & Gas Exploration Kft. since 2005. Dr. Szabó is a widely recognized authority in the Hungarian and international petroleum industry. In addition to being a university professor, Dr. Szabó has overseen the design and implementation of the deepest HP-HT well ever drilled in Hungary. In 1991 he was in charge of successful fire control and well abandonment operations by Hungarian teams in Kuwait. He was instrumental in the privatization and the strategy related to the capitalization and structure of Hungary’s former National Oil Corporation (presently MOL), as well as the landmark listing of the company on domestic and international securities exchanges in 1995. Dr. Szabó graduated from Miskolc University and received a degree in petroleum engineering in 1963. He received his Ph.D. in 1975. |
| Helen Mitchell, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Manager | |
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Helen Mitchell joined Falcon in 2011 to manage investor relations and public relations. Previously, Helen was responsible for marketing upstream oil and gas joint venture opportunities for her clients as A&D Associate at Moyes & Co. in Houston. From 2002-2008, she conducted research and managed communications for public policy and education organizations in Washington DC and Austin in the United States, and Prague, Czech Republic.
Helen recieved a BBA from Loyola University New Orleans and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the Acton School of Business in Austin, TX. |