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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 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.
Non-Executive Director
Mr 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 acts 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.
Non-Executive Director
Dr Carol Bell was appointed as an independent non-executive
director in December 2005. Dr 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 to that 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 member of the Investment Advisory
Committee of Gemini Oil and Gas (an oil and gas royalty fund). On
24 October 2007, Dr Bell was elected as a non-executive director
of Revus Energy
Ian Bruce
Non-Executive Director
Mr Bruce was appointed as an independent non-Executive Director in
October 2008. Mr 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), has been 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 Chartered
Accountants of Canada.
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Chief Executive
Mr Karra, one of the two founders, has over 40 years’ oil and
gas industry experience. He has held senior management roles at
Occidental Petroleum Corporationand 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. Currently Mr Karra
is 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.
Chief Operating Officer
Mr Sharma, one of the two founders, has over 30 years of
International oil and gas industry experience. He has previously
worked with Energy Resources Conservation Board and Pan Canadian
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 3 years. Mr.
Sharma was also responsible for the Group’s finance and
administrative functions until 1 July 2007.
Finance Director
Mr Dattani was appointed to the Board effective 1 July 2007.
Mr Dattani is a Chartered Accountant with over 28 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.
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