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Non-Executive Chairman
Mr Mortimer has diverse board level experience and over 30 years’
experience in the oil, gas and mining industries. Mr Mortimer
held various senior management roles through his 23 year career
with Exxon Corporation including Senior Vice President of Exxon
Minerals, New York, and Director and Vice President of Esso
Argentina, Buenos Aires.
After Exxon, he was responsible for Corporate Development and
Coal at Newmont Mining Corporation in New York and was a
Director of Peabody Coal. He has acted as a consultant to Morgan
Stanley and a number of gold mining companies. Mr Mortimer has a
degree in mining
engineering from the University of South Africa, was awarded a
Rhodes scholarship in 1957 and read Politics, Philosophy and
Economics at Oxford. He also holds an MBA from the Harvard
Business School.
Mr Mortimer has been a member of Hardy’s Board for ten years. He
was appointed Non Executive Director on 10 December 1998 and
appointed Chairman prior to the Company’s IPO in June 2005.
Mr Mortimer was a member of the Audit committee until 3 November
2008 and is currently a member of the Remuneration and
Nomination committees.
Non-Executive Director
Mr Pradip Shah is the founder and chairman of IndAsia Fund
Advisors Private Limited. He established Indocean Fund in October
1994 with affiliates of Soros Fund Management and Chemical Venture
Partners and founded and managed CRISIL, India’s first and largest
credit rating agency, in 1988. Mr Shah also assisted in setting up
Housing Development Finance Company in 1977 and acted as
consultant to USAID, the World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank. Mr Shah holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and is
a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant.
Mr Shah was appointed to the Board as a Non Executive Director on
22 July 1999. He is currently the chair of the Remuneration
Committee and serves as a member on the Audit and Nomination
committees.
Senior Non-Executive Director
Dr Carol Bell has over 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas
sector, most recently as the Managing Director of Chase
Manhattan’s Investment Bank with responsibility for oil and gas.
Prior thereto she was the Global Head of J.P. Morgan’s Energy team
in Equity Research. Dr Bell began her career in corporate planning
and development with RTZ Oil and Gas and subsequently worked with
Charterhouse Petroleum plc. She was awarded a PhD in the
archaeology of ancient trade in May 2005. Dr Bell is a
Non-Executive Director of Petroleum Geo-services ASA and a member
of the Investment Advisory Committee of Gemini Oil and Gas (an oil
and gas royalty fund). Dr Bell was also a Non-Executive Director
of Revus Energy ASA through 2008.
Dr Bell was appointed to the Board on 16 December 2005 and was
appointed the Senior Non Executive Director in 2007. She is
currently the chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the
Remuneration Committee.
Ian Bruce
Non-Executive Director
Mr Ian Bruce is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Peters &
Co. Limited, an independent, fully integrated investment dealer in
the Canadian energy sector. Mr Bruce spent six years with a major
Canadian chartered accountancy firm prior to starting in the
investment business in 1983. He joined Peters & Co. Limited in
1998, following senior roles with RBC Dominion Securities
(1985-1994) and Scotia Capital Markets (1994-1998). Mr. Bruce is
currently Vice Chair and Director of the Investment Industry
Association of Canada (2006), is past Chairman, Director and
Executive Committee Member of Alberta Children’s Hospital
Foundation (1989 to 2004), and past Director and Executive
Committee Member of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada.
Mr Bruce holds an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University; an
MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of
Western Ontario; and the designations of Chartered Accountant,
Chartered Business Valuator and CF (Corporate Finance
Qualification). In 2004, he became a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Canada.
Mr Bruce was appointed to Hardy’s Board on 24 October 2008. In
addition, Mr. Bruce serves on the Company’s Audit Committee.
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Chief Executive
Mr Sastry Karra is a founding director and a major shareholder
of Hardy since 1997. Mr Karra has over 40 years’ oil and gas
industry experience. He has held senior management roles at
Occidental Petroleum Corporation and Petronas as well as earlier
experience with Gulf Canada, Husky and Ashland. Mr Karra has held
various consulting roles with the Boston Consulting Group and
Santa Fe Resources. He was a Senior lecturer at the University of
IBADAN from 1973 to 1976. Mr Karra is presently the Founder and
Chairman of the Association of Oil and Gas Operators of India and
the Vice Chairman of the National Council of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers of India. In 2008, Sastry Karra has been
conferred a Chieftaincy title in recognition of his professional
and philanthropic contribution to Nigeria over the span of 35
years.
Mr Karra was appointed an Executive Director of the Company on 22
October 1997. He is also a member of the Company’s Nomination
Committee.
Chief Operating Officer
Mr Yogeshwar Sharma is a founding director and a major
shareholder of Hardy since 1997. Mr Sharma has over 30 years’ of
international oil and gas industry experience. He has previously
worked with Energy Resources Conservation Board and Pan Canadian
Petroleums Limited in Calgary, Canada and ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia.
He has held senior technical positions at Schlumberger and Elf
International, where he helped found the Elf Geoscience Research
centre in London in 1991. Mr Sharma was an external examiner
at Heriot Watt University for three years. Mr. Sharma was also
responsible for the Group’s finance and administrative functions
until 1 July 2007.
Mr Sharma was appointed an Executive Director of Hardy on 22
October 1997. Currently, Mr Sharma is the President and Chief
Executive of Hardy Exploration & Production (India) Inc. in
addition to being the Chief Operating Officer of Hardy.
Finance Director
Mr Dinesh Dattani is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years
of industry and corporate experience principally with
international upstream oil and gas companies. Prior to joining
Hardy, Mr Dattani has served in senior finance capacities with
companies including Canoro Resources Ltd., Bow Valley Energy Ltd.,
Sherritt International Corporation, and Home Oil Company Ltd, all
of which are/were listed in either Canada and/or the United States
of America.
Mr Dattani has served as the Chairman of the Canadian Petroleum
Association’s Income Tax Committee and was a recipient of an Award
of Merit in 1987. He was the Chair of the Board of Directors of
the United Way of Calgary for the year 2004/2005 and served as the
Chair of the Finance Committee for three years. In 2005, he
received an Immigrants of Distinction Award for Community Service
and a Distinguished Service Award from the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Alberta.
Mr Dattani was appointed to the Board as an Executive Director in
July 2007.
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