Mr Duffy has over 20 years’ experience as an executive director of a number of companies listed in the UK, Europe and the US. They include, among others, EMI Group plc, Orange SA and most recently ntl inc. He also has 30 years' experience as a non-executive director or non-executive chairman of a range of companies including ten years with Imperial Tobacco Group plc.

Mr Baron was appointed to the Board on 19 March 2009, as Chief Executive Officer. He has over 30 years' international experience in the upstream petroleum industry, including in many countries in the former Soviet Union. He is founding partner of ESG Dubai Consulting, a firm which provides project management and advisory services to the oil and gas industry.

Mr Dayer qualified as a chartered accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co and then pursued a corporate finance career in investment banking, specialising in advising small and mid-market UK companies. He was first appointed an advisory director in 1983 at Barclays Merchant Bank Limited and since then has held a position of corporate finance director with a number of banks. He retired from Hoare Govett Limited in 2004. Philip was a financial consultant to OJSC Rosneft Oil Company, the Russian state owned oil and gas company, on it's flotation in 2006. He was also chairman of Baltic Oil Terminals until November 2008. Philip is a non-executive director of Dana Petroleum plc, AVEVA Group plc and Navigators Underwriting Agency Ltd senior independent director of Arden Partners plc and chairman of IP PLUS PLC.

Mr Cole is currently a non-executive chairman of several companies including JP Morgan Income and Growth plc and NAAFI Pension Trustees. He is also non-executive director of Hexadex Limited. Between 1990 and 1999, he was chief executive of Transport Development Group plc. Mr Cole was a non-executive director of Burren Energy plc when it was admitted to the Official List in 2003.

Mr Hooke is a chartered petroleum engineer and a fellow of the Energy Institute. He has over 25 years of oil and gas experience. Mr Hooke has worked in a variety of technical, commercial, financial and management roles with ESSO and Conoco and currently runs Challenge Energy, an asset management company which he founded.