About Us

Gerald Orbell, Chairman and Chief Executive (age 59)

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 board, and chairman of the audit committee, at the compliance company Valpak Limited.

Tony Heath, Finance Director (age 69)

Tony Heath has over thirty years financial and general management experience in a variety of roles including finance manager of Burmah Oil's North Sea exploration activity, Finance Director of Halfords retailing Group and Controller of the Burmah-Castrol Group. Tony was Finance Director of Premier Oil plc the international oil and gas exploration and production group from 1990 to 1997.

Jossy Rachmantio, Executive Director (Aged 45)

Jossy Rachmantio obtained a BSc in Material Engineering in the USA and a Masters in International Management. He has held a number of management positions in Indonesia including with Repindo Nusa Jaya (power project development), managing director of Flotec (bandwidth optimization software) and managing director of Profescripta Wahana (company restructuring). Jossy was a founding director of Mitra Energia Ltd which merged with Sound Oil in 2006.

Simon Davies, Non-executive Director (age 47)

Simon Davies is chief executive of Threadneedle Asset Management, which manages over £62 billion in equities, bonds, property and hedge funds for individual and corporate investors. Simon is also a director of the Investment Management Association and JP Morgan Fleming Overseas Investment Trust and is also on the investment committee of Westminster Abbey.

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