BOARD MEMBERS
Mr. Keith Henry
(Non-Executive Chairman)
Mr.Keith Henry, appointed as Chairman of Mediterranean Oil and Gas plc in January 2012, has a wealth of experience gained over more than 35 years in the development, design, construction and management of projects and major companies in the oil and gas, power and service industries. During this period he was Chief Executive of National Power plc, a FTSE 100 company, Brown & Root Limited, and Kvaerner Engineering & Construction Limited. As a non-executive director within the oil and gas sector, Keith has held the roles of Chairman of Burren Energy plc, director of First Calgary Petroleums Limited, senior independent director of Emerald Energy plc, Deputy Chairman of Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, Chairman of Petrojarl ASA, and a director of Enterprise Oil plc. Outside of the oil and gas sector, Keith has held a number of other non-executive roles, including Chairman of Helius Energy plc, director of South East Water Ltd, and Deputy Chairman of Aegis Defence Services Limited. Keith is currently the Chairman of Regal Petroleum plc, the senior independent director of Sterling Energy plc and a non-executive director of HPR Holdings Limited. A BSc graduate from the University of London and holding a MSc from Birmingham University, Keith is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Mr. Sergio Morandi
(Chief Executive Officer)
Mr. Morandi was Chief Executive Officer of the Company from late 2007 to May 2011. He has 27 years experience in oil & gas exploration, operations management and the acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic data. He has worked at ENI, Coparex, ELF, Enterprise Oil, Shell Italia E&P and Shell International E&P. From 1997 to 2003, he was a lecturer of Applied Seismology at Basillicata University in Italy and in 2002 and 2003 he was a Board Member of the Italian National Upstream Association (Associazione Mineraria Italiana).
Mr. Chris Kelsall
(Finance Director)
Mr. Kelsall has over 14 years international investment banking experience, undertaking capital markets, privatisation and corporate advisory projects in a wide range of developed and emerging markets. Most recently he was a Director, Equity Capital Markets in the Global Banking Division of Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong Branch. Prior to this he worked with the ABN AMRO Rothschild global equity capital markets joint venture, in London and Sydney. Chris initially practised for 4 years as a corporate and commercial solicitor with firms within the Allens Arthur Robinson Legal Group. Chris holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Western Australia, in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.
Mr. Matthew Clarke
(Non-Executive Director)
Mr. Clarke is a founding partner of Merlin Partners LLP, an FSA registered corporate finance firm specialising in the natural resource sector. He is a qualified English lawyer and spent the years 1988-1995 at Linklaters. From 1995-2001 he was at Robert Fleming & Co Limited where he was a Director, specialising in equity capital markets. He established Merlin Partners in 2002 and sits on the boards of a number of private natural resource companies.
Mr. Miles Donnelly
(Non-Executive Director)
Mr. Donnelly founded Aurelian Oil & Gas Plc together with Michael Seymour as a private company in 2002, which was subsequently listed on AIM in 2006. Miles stepped down as a director of Aurelian Oil & Gas Plc in June 2010 and subsequently formed Trajan Oil & Gas Limited to explore in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has worked extensively in Africa and the Middle East.
Mr. Salvatore Russo
(Non-Executive Director)
Mr. Russo holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and he began his career with Mobil (USA). In 1981 Mr Russo joined ENI S.p.A (State Energy Board). As director of Group Strategy and Planning he contributed to the entire re-organisation of the ENI Group and also participated in the privatization of ENI. Over a period of some twenty years Mr Russo has held very senior positions on the Boards of some of Italy's largest corporations including amongst others Chairman and CEO Saipem S.p.A, Chairman and CEO Snam S.p.A, Chairman, CEO Snam Rete Gas S.p.A (ENI Group) and Chairman and CEO EnerTAD S.p.A. In addition he has served on the Boards of Directors of a number of companies including Agip, AgipPetroli, EniChem and Italgas.
Mr. Michael Seymour
(Non-Executive Director)
Mr. Seymour is a geologist with over 40 years of experience in the oil industry, starting with the Burmah Oil Company, Conoco and Kerr-McGee. Mr Seymour was the Founder of Aurelian Oil & Gas Plc, where he was managing director until mid-2009 and now will retire as non-executive director at the end of May 2011. He also was founder of Teredo Petroleum Plc in 1984 and Medusa Oil & Gas Ltd in 1991. He is a former Chairman of both the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and the UK Onshore Operators Group. Currently, he is President of the Polish Exploration and Production Industry Organisation and a Director of Trajan Oil Limited.
Mr. Jake Ulrich
(Non-Executive Director)
Jake was Senior Energy Advisor to Och Ziff Management Europe Ltd from 2008 to 2011. Prior to this role, he was an executive director with Centrica plc until 2008, responsible for upstream, power generation, renewables and trading. Prior to joining Centrica he was an executive at NGCH (later Dynergy) and also worked for the OXY/MidCon/Peoples Group. Jake has a degree in Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Chicago.