Gerald Orbell, Chairman and Chief Executive (age 64)

Gerald Orbell is a petroleum geologist with over 30 years of technical, managerial and director level experience in the hydrocarbon and utilities sectors. Gerald has previously held the position of executive director of Fina Exploration, Fina Development, Premier Oil plc and United Utilities plc. Gerald is currently the chairman of Antrim Energy Inc. where he oversees the company's business in the UK. He is also a member of the boards of Consul Oil & Gas Limited, Moorland Energy and Valpak Limited, where he is also chairman of the audit committee.

Ilham Habibie, Non-executive Director (age 48)

Ilham Habibie holds a PhD in aeronautical engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a MBA from the University of Chicago. Ilham's previous professional background is largely with aerospace companies and in 2002 became co-founder and shareholder of PT. ILTHABI Rekatama, a private investment company in Indonesia, which he joined as a President Director in 2002. Through ILTHABI he invested into various companies in the fields of energy, mining, manufacturing and transportation. He is on various boards of the companies in which ILTHABI has invested, mostly as a non-executive and occasionally as an executive director. Ilham was a founding director of Mitra Energia Ltd which merged with Sound Oil in 2006.

Michael Nobbs, Non-executive Director (age 62)

Michael Nobbs has a thirty-five year track record in investment banking, with a focus on corporate and project finance. He was a managing director and senior credit officer for Citigroup/Citibank and and Group Finance Director for Tishman International Companies. In his career, Michael has participated in multiple capital raisings, both debt and equity, and in the areas of securitisation, initial public offerings, M and A, and company restructurings. He has held positions in London, New York and Los Angeles. At present Michael acts as an independent company director and investment advisor and is on the Boards of Plasco Energy, Ithaca Energy, Mart Resources, Illinois River Energy, GTL Resources Plc and Leeder Financial Services, among others.

Andrew Hockey, Non-executive Director (age 52)

Andrew Hockey holds a BA in geology from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Petroleum Geology from Imperial College, London. He has over 25 years technical and managerial experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. Andrew is a co-founder of Fairfield Energy Limited where he is General Manager, Joint Ventures and New Business. Prior to joining Fairfield Andrew worked for Eni in Milan from 2002-2005. Previously Andrew was in charge of Lasmo plc’s portfolio in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco and was Monument’s Exploration Manager for Algeria and supervised North Africa and Greece for Triton Energy. Andrew’s early career was with Petrofina as an exploration geologist in the UK North Sea and internationally in Southeast Asia.

Tony Heath, Non-executive Director (age 75)

Tony Heath has over thirty years financial and general management experience in a variety of roles. Qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1964, Tony joined Burmah Oil's motor fuels development business in 1968. He then spent four years as finance manager for Burmah Oil's North Sea oil exploration activity which was followed by a further four years as finance director of Halford's retailing group which included managing its Dutch and factoring businesses. He then became group controller of Burmah Oil and was responsible for all financial information and control of the international oil group covering operations in thirty-five countries. Tony joined the board of Premier Oil plc as group finance director in 1990 where he had overall responsibility for all financial matters in the oil exploration and production business in many countries around the world.  Tony was CFO of Sound Oil plc from 2005 to 2011.