Executive Chairman and President - Dr David Robson
Dr Robson's career has been primarily in operating oil and gas companies. He is currently Executive Chairman, President and Executive Director of Tethys Petroleum Group of Companies, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2007. Tethys Petroleum Limited was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of CanArgo Energy Corporation founded by Dr David Robson in 1997 where he served as Chairman and CEO until bringing Tethys Petroleum public. He was Chief Executive Officer and one of the founders of the London Stock Exchange listed company JKX Oil & Gas plc and prior to this he was employed in technical and commercial positions in Britoil plc, Hamilton Oil and Mobil. Trained as a geologist with a First Class B.Sc (Hons) degree in Geology and PhD in Geochemistry, Dr. Robson also holds an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.
Dr Robson has worked on oil and gas projects in the former Soviet Union since 1990 in areas such as Siberia, Sakhalin, Murmansk, and the Caspian region. He has a number of "firsts" such the establishment of the first non-state gas development project in Ukraine, the first non-state drilling in the fSU Black Sea, the first non-state exploration and development wells in Georgia and negotiation of the first EBRD loan to a private sector project in Ukraine. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS), a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Member of European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Directors. Dr Robson holds the Order of Honour for services to the Georgian hydrocarbon extraction industry and was made a Freeman of the ancient Georgia city of Telavi. He was formerly the Energy Sector Representative on the UK Government's East European Trade Council (EETC), a Board Member of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) and was one of the founder members of the President of Tajikistan’s Investment Council. Dr Robson has spoken at numerous International conferences on fSU oil, gas and energy.
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Chief Executive Officer and Chief Commercial Officer - Julian Hammond
Mr. Hammond is currently Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director and Chief Commercial Officer of Tethys Petroleum Group of Companies, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2007, on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange since 2008 and on the London Stock Exchange since 2011. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Mr. Hammond served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director and Chief Commercial Officer for the Company. In the role of Deputy CEO Mr. Hammond assumed any duties of the CEO that the CEO delegates under the normal course of business. Mr. Hammond was also responsible for the commercial activities and development of the business of the company, including financing the company’s activities through instruments including equity, debt and trade finance and also negotiated any new Contracts or Licenses associated with new business. Overall, he was in charge of all sales contracts and off-take agreements for oil and gas produced by the Company.
Prior to joining Tethys Petroleum, Mr. Hammond worked for CanArgo Energy Corporation in various positions including Business Development Manager and Commercial Manager where he managed an oil refinery in Georgia and led the establishment of a retail chain of gasoline stations that became the market leader in the capital city, Tbilisi. Tethys Petroleum Limited was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of CanArgo Energy Corporation.
Previously Mr. Hammond worked for Credit Suisse First Boston in London and Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. Mr. Hammond holds a BA degree in Economics from University of Colorado.
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Chief Financial Officer - Bernard Murphy
Mr. Murphy is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) and prior to joining the Company worked in a network providing accounting and finance services to SME's. He has 30 years experience as a management accountant having previously worked for Courtaulds, BOC, BICC and for HSBC Actuaries and Consultants Limited as Finance Director, and in insurance with HSBC and Royal & Sun Alliance. Prior to his finance career he was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering from Glasgow University. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Company. |
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Executive Director, Chief Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary - Liz Landles
Ms. Landles is a highly experienced administrator and is currently Executive Director, Chief Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Company. She is also Director of many of the Company's subsidiaries and is responsible for human resources. Ms. Landles has over 14 years of experience in the oil and gas sector and was Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary of CanArgo Energy Corporation. She has been an Executive Director of Tethys Petroleum since its incorporation in 2003. Ms. Landles holds an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration and Management (an operating division of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in the UK) and is a Fellow of The Institute of Business Administration (F.Inst.BA). Ms. Landles is also a member of The Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD). She is a member of the Executive Board of the Company. Prior to working in the oil and gas sector Ms. Landles worked in finance for several years.
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Vice Chairman and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director - Rt. Hon. Peter Lilley MP
Mr. Lilley was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied natural science and economics. He was a Director of Greenwell Montagu Securities (1986-87) where he headed the oil investment department and which he joined in 1972. He is Non-Executive Director of Melchior Japan Investment Trust plc and of IDOX plc. He is currently MP for Hitchin & Harpenden as well as Vice-Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Central Asia.
He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson (1984-1987). His first ministerial appointment was as Economic Secretary to the Treasury (June 1987), then Financial Secretary to the Treasury (July 1989). He joined Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1990-1992. Secretary of State for Social Security 1992-1997. Shadow Chancellor and Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party responsible for overseeing renewal of policy until June 1999. He was an election observer for the 2005 Kazakhstan presidential elections. In 2012 Mr. Lilley was appointed as the Co-Chairman of the Uzbek-British Trade & Industry Council, which is a government-sponsored trade promotion body for bilateral economic co-operation. |
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Non-Executive Director - Russ Hammond
Mr. Hammond was educated at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Bachelors' degree in Economics. Previously, he was Managing Director of Greenwell-Montagu Securities. Mr. Hammond was a Non-executive Director of CanArgo Energy Corporation between July 1998 and December 2008. Mr. Hammond has been Non-Executive Chairman of Terrenex Acquisition Corporation, an oil and gas and joint venture company, from 1995 to 2008; and a Non-Executive Director of Questerre Energy Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company listed on the TSX, since 2000. He holds the Order of Honour for services to the Georgian hydrocarbon extraction industry.
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Non-Executive Director - Piers Johnson
Mr. Johnson is an experienced oilfield engineer with nearly 30 years experience. He holds a B.Sc.(Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University, and is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is past Chairman of the London Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), a Member of the petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and a member of the Institute of Energy.
He is the founder and Managing Director of Oilfield Production Consultants (OPC) Limited, a Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering Consultancy specialising in Operational Procedures, Integrated Studies, Wellsite Supervision and Well Test Analysis and prior to this worked for Flopetrol Johnston Schlumberger as Well test Supervisor, Location manager and District Sales Engineer (Asia). He has experience of oil and gas operations and field evaluations worldwide and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Petroleum Engineering at the Institute Francais du Petrol in Paris.
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Non-Executive Director - Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was educated at the University of Chicago where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science and at American University of Beirut where he earned a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration. Ambassador Khalilzad is currently President of a Washington, D.C. based firm focused on the Middle East and Central Asia. From 2007 to 2009, Ambassador Khalilzad served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Prior to that, he served as United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2005 to 2007 and United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. Ambassador Khalilzad also served as United States Special Presidential Envoy to Afghanistan from 2001 to 2003.
Ambassador Khalilzad currently sits on the boards of the National Endowment for Democracy, America Abroad Media, the Center for the National Interest, the Atlantic Council, the RAND Corporation's Middle East Studies Center, the American University of Iraq in Suleymania, and the American University of Afghanistan. Ambassador Khalilzad is also a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Non-Executive Director - James Rawls
Mr. James Rawls is a registered Petroleum Engineer with over 35 years industry experience in engineering and finance; he is currently the owner and manager of Rawls Resources, Inc., a private oil and gas exploration company. Mr. Rawls worked for Exxon Company USA in onshore and offshore development as a Senior Project Engineer, and later went on to a successful 12 year career in banking as Manager of the of Deposit Guarantee National Bank. In the early 1990's, he moved back into oil and gas exploration as president of Hughes-Rawls Corporation. Since that time, both in association with others as well as in entities owned individually, Mr. Rawls, has been involved in drilling oil and gas wells both onshore and offshore, in the United States and elsewhere. He is currently involved both in exploration and private investments.
Mr. Rawls serves or has served on the public company boards of Redcliffe Exploration Inc., Harcor energy Lending Department., Tikal Resources Corporation, and Aquest Energy, Ltd. as well as on the boards of numerous private companies, professional and philanthropic organizations. He holds a BS degree (distinction) in Petroleum Engineering from Mississippi State University and was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Bagwell School of Engineering in 2007. |
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Non-Executive Director - Marcus Rhodes
Mr. Marcus Rhodes is a Chartered Accountant and experienced auditor. He spent some 17 years working in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, most recently as an Audit Partner with Ernst & Young in their Moscow office.
Mr. Rhodes has worked with a wide variety of clients in many industry sectors including retail and consumer products, paper and pulp, pharmaceuticals, hotels, iron & steel manufacture, aluminium manufacture and mining, as Audit Partner, Head of the Audit Practice, Head of Retail and Consumer Products and Advisory Partner in respect of structural and reporting issues relating to audit committees. He was also the Partner responsible for establishing the Arthur Andersen practice in Uzbekistan and has worked on and been responsible Audit Partner on a number of Russian related IPO's and advised on Eurobond and Russian bond issues. Mr. Rhodes is currently an independent consultant and also serves as Head of the Audit Committee and non-executive director for three leading Russian companies in the food, beverage and restaurant sectors, these companies being listed on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange.
He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Economics and Economic History from the Loughborough University (England), and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.
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