Board of Directors

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Sara Akbar, Director

  • Chemical Engineer with over 30 yearrs experience, having led and built oil and gas companies, services and projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

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

  • Independent Director of Petrofac since 2018, a leading engineering and services provider in energy Internationally

  • Co-Founder of Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) which developed assets in Iraq, Egypt, 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

  • Member of the board of Trustee of the Marchant Fund, a fund created by ICC

Richard Wadsworth, CEO, Director and Chairman of the Board

  • Petroleum Engineer with over 30 years of experience in the WCSB and internationally specializing in brownfield re-vitalization and re-development

  • Led the re-development of 55,000 Bopd & plans to 230,000 bopd in Iraq 2018-2023

  • Co-founder, President of Bankers Petroleum; Production 0 to 7,000 BOPD; 2P reserves of 100+ MMbbl, Bankers sold $575MM

  • Koch Exploration, developed over 30,000 bopd CHOPS heavy oil production in Alberta.

Henry Legarre, Director

  • Professional Geoscientist  (MSc.) with over 30 years of experience in the international oil and gas sector

  • Managing Director at Addax Petroleum Services, responsible for the successful exploration and development of the Taq Taq oilfield in Iraq, sold to SINOPEC in 2009

  • Co-founder and COO for Oryx Petroleum which explored and developed assets in Iraq, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Republic of Congo

  • Started with Chevron in Bakersfield California developing heavy oil assets then leading him to working in a variety of capacities in assets in Nigeria, Angola, China, Venezuela, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Brazil for over 17 years

  • Currently part of executive team developing a new clean-energy-from-oil process, combining EOR and geothermal process in mature fields to increase recovery and creating net zero electricity with no CO2 emissions

Dean Callaway, Director and Chief Financial Officer

  • Chartered Professional Accountant, MBA And BComm, with over 30 years of experience in the energy and finance industry

  • 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 lnvestmentBanking at Merrill Lynch