John Craven, Chairman of the Board |
 | Mr. Craven has been Chairman of the Board since September 2011 and has over 35 years of experience in technical, commercial, financial and leadership roles at major international upstream oil companies and junior independents. His career has been noted for a series of successful new venture negotiations, the exploration of which led to major discoveries in Algeria, Colombia, offshore Ghana, Mozambique and Indonesia. Along with his co-directors, he led Ardmore Petroleum, Dana Petroleum, Petroceltic International and recently Cove Energy through the acquisition of major upstream assets and key exploration and developmental milestones. During this time Mr. Craven has been actively involved in corporate finance and was responsible for raising initial capital through private sources and floating Petroceltic on the ISE and Cove Energy on the AIM stock exchanges. Mr. Craven holds an MSc in Petroleum Geology from the Royal School of Mines in London and an MBA from Queen's University in Belfast. |
Philip O'Quigley, Director |
 | Mr. O’Quigley was elected to the Board in September 2012 and has been Chief Executive Officer of Falcon Oil & Gas since May 2012. Mr. O’Quigley brings 20 years’ experience in senior management 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. |
Dr. György Szabó, Director |
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Dr. Szabó has been a member of the Board since April 2006 and was Chairman of the Board from September 2009 until September 2011. 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. |
Daryl H Gilbert, Director |
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Mr. Gilbert has been a member of the Board since the September 2007 and is a Professional Petroleum Engineer with over 35 years experience in both the Canadian and International Oil and Gas Industries. Mr. Gilbert serves as a Director of several energy related public entities in addition to Falcon including AltaGas Ltd. and Penn West Petroleum Ltd. He is also currently a Managing Director of JOG Capital Inc. a private equity oil and gas investment firm located in Calgary Alberta. The greater part of Mr. Gilbert’s career was spent in the independent energy evaluation consulting sector. In 1979, he joined the predecessor oil and gas engineering and geological firm which became Gilbert Laustsen Jung Associates Ltd. (GLJ) where he served as a Principal Officer beginning in 1988 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1994 through to his retirement from consulting in 2005. Mr. Gilbert has a BSc from the University of Manitoba in Civil Engineering and is a member of the Association of Petroleum Engineers, and Geoscientists of Alberta, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers. |
Joachim Conrad, Director |
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Mr. Conrad has been a member of the Board since October 2008. Senior Advisor at Gazprom Germania GmbH and Managing Director of BosphorusGaz Corporation, Turkey, Istanbul (a 71% Gazprom owned company). With a strong track record in the European natural gas industry, he was formerly serving in the position as Managing Director of Gazprom Marketing and Trading GmbH (100% Gazprom owned) and as Member of the Group Executive Board of Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Laufenburg AG ("EGL"), a European energy trading company with its own energy producing assets listed on the Swiss stock exchange (SWX: EGL), where he was responsible for EGL's gas division. At the same time, Mr. Conrad was member of the supervisory board of certain of EGL's foreign subsidiaries including the Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG, a joint venture of EGL and StatoilHydro. Prior to joining EGL, Mr. Conrad was Head of trading at WINGAS GmbH, Germany, a joint venture of Wintershall and Gazprom. He served in various management functions for 10 years in the German Oil & Gas Company Wintershall. Mr. Conrad obtained the rank of First Lieutenant in the German Air Force prior to obtaining a Diplomkaufmann degree from Georg-August Universität, Germany, in 1992 focus: Economics and Information Technology, Graduation in Artificial Intelligence. |
Gregory Smith, Director |
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Mr Smith has been a member of the Board and Chairman of the audit committee since December 2009 and is a Chartered Accountant and President of Oakridge Financial Management Inc., a provider of financial and management consulting services to private and public companies. He is also the CFO and a Director of Maglin Site Furniture Inc. (since March, 1995), a corporation that manufacturers and distributes public site furniture primarily in Canada and the United States. He is currently a director (since April, 1987) and chairman of the audit committee of Armistice Resources Corp and a director of a number or private corporations. He is a past director and audit committee chairman of a number of public and private resource corporations, including director and chairman of the audit committees of TriWestern Energy Inc., Manson Creek Resources Ltd., CDG Investments Inc. and Tyler Resources Inc. Mr Smith was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta in 1975 and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary. |
Igor Akhmerov, Director |
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Mr. Akhmerov has been a member of the Board since December 2010. He was also on the Board from September 2007 until May 2008. Mr. Ahkmerov graduated from the Moscow Institute Of Management (1989), Wharton Business School (1995), and Lauder Institute of Business and International Relations (1995). From 1989 through 1993 he worked at the Moscow office of Bain & Company, specialized in privatization and banking. After graduation from Wharton Business School he worked for the Boston office of Bain & Company. In 1998 he returned to Russia and joined Sputnik Group, the largest Russian private equity investment group, as a partner. In 2001 he moved to TNK as First Vice President for Planning, Budgeting, Investment Governance, Taxes, and Reporting. From 2004 until 2006 he served as Chief Financial Officer of Renova Group. He has served as Chief Executive Officer of Avelar Energy Group since 2007. Mr. Igor Akhmerov is also a Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Kerself SpA, the leading player in the Italian solar market, since September 24, 2008. |
David Harris, Director |
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Mr. Harris was elected to the Board in September 2012. Since 2010 Mr. Harris has operated as the sole proprietor of DGH International GeoConsulting ("DGH"). DGH has been involved in a wide variety of projects, ranging from brief opinion letters on investment opportunities to the assessment of the unconventional potential of various countries, to detailed technical assessments of farm-in opportunities and acquisitions. These have been done for Investment Banks, Energy Research Firms, Private Equity Firms, and for Boards of Directors and management teams. Prior to this, Mr. Harris spent 22 years at GLJ Petroleum Consultants, where he held the roles of Senior Vice President, Senior Partner and director of the firm. His responsibility was oversight of the GeoSciences Group, which included 13 geologists, geophysicists and support staff. Mr Harris holds a B.Sc. in Geology (with Honours) from University of Calgary (1981). |
