Sara Akbar, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

• Chemical Engineer with more than 30 years’ experience, having led and built oil and gas companies, services and projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

• CEO and Chair of OILSERV Kuwait, a leading integrated oilfield services company in the MENA region

• Independent Director of Petrofac, a leading international engineering and services provider in oil and gas, since 2018

• Co-founder of Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) which developed assets in Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan, and was sold to United Energy Group in 2019

• Chairperson of the Advisory Board to the business school of American University of Kuwait, a member of the Kuwait Supreme Council for Planning and Development and an active member of the Board of Trustees of Kuwait’s Silk Territory project

• Serves on the board of the Merchant Fund, a fund created by ICC

Dean Callaway, Chief Financial Officer and Director

• Chartered Professional Accountant (MBA, BComm) with more than 30 years’ experience in the energy and finance industries

• CFO for private and public companies for more than a decade, with experience in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, France, Namibia, Niger and the United States

• Previous Head of Mergers and Acquisition for Terasen Pipeline

• Corporate finance and international business development experience at Enbridge and TransAlta

• Energy investment banking experience at Merrill Lynch