Mark Pritchard Executive Chairman

Mark Pritchard (Aged 47) following a 12 year career in investment banking in the City of London, working for financial institutions including, Interallianz Bank Zurich and Nomura International, Mr. Pritchard established a private investment firm, Lomond Consultancy Limited in 1992. Mr. Pritchard is currently Chairman of FuturaGene plc, an AIM listed agricultural biotech company and is President of Allied Minds Inc., a private equity vehicle specializing in early stage technology investment which he founded in 2004. Mr. Pritchard has a BSc from Cass Business School in London.

Michael Norman Burchell Non-Executive Director

Mike Burchell (Age 67) has over 44 years' experience in the oil and gas industry since graduating with honours from Leeds University. During his career he has had extensive international experience at PLC main board level of oil and gas field development, oil and gas sales, PSAs and transportation agreements and acquisitions and finance. Mr. Burchell is now a director of CBM Oil pic and is the Consultant Adviser to the Ministry of Oil in Bahrain and Bapco, Bahrain's state oil company.

Thomas Tidow Stephan, Operations Director

Thomas Tidow (Age 50) graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stuttgart in 1985 and was granted an Executive MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain in 1992. Following a career in the German automotive sector, Thomas entered the natural resources sector and worked in senior management positions for Repsol, Vopak and Shell both in Peru and internationally. He has held the Country Manager position for Gold Oil Peru since the formation of the company in 2004 and has joint German and Peruvian nationality.