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Non-Executive Chairman
Alasdair is the former executive Chairman of Abbot Group plc,
an oil services company which he founded in 1992. It was listed on
the London Stock Exchange from 1995 until its sale in 2008 for
£906 million to Turbo Alpha Ltd, a company controlled by a US
private equity fund. He sold his remaining interest in the Group
and stepped down altogether in 2009. His early career started in
investment banking at Citigroup in 1974, where he specialised in
shipping and oil. Alasdair is also Chairman of Argenta Holdings
plc, an unlisted holding company which trades in Lloyds of London.
Mr Locke was appointed to Hardy’s board as non-executive Chairman
in January 2012.
Mr Locke holds a History and Economics Degree from Oxford. He is
the recipient of the Grampian Industrialist of the Year (2001)
award, the Scottish Business Achievement Awards Trust
International Business Achievement Award (2000) and the Scottish
Business Achievement Awards Entrepreneur of the year (1999). |
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Chief Executive Officer
Mr Sharma, one of the two founders of Hardy, has over 30 years
of international oil and gas industry experience, specialising in
reservoir engineering and field development. He has held
senior technical positions at Schlumberger and Elf International,
where he helped found the Elf Geoscience Research centre in London
in 1991. While at Elf, 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. He is a non-executive director of LongReach Oil
and Gas Ventures Limited, an oil and gas exploration company,
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Non-Executive Director
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. |
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Senior Non-Executive Director
Dr Carol Bell was appointed as an independent Non-Executive
Director in December 2005. Carol has over 30 years’ experience in
the oil and gas sector. She was appointed the Senior Non Executive
Director in 2007 currently chairs of the Audit Committee and is a
member of the Remuneration Committee.
Carol enjoyed a successful career in the City, as a Managing
Director of Chase Manhattan Bank's Global Oil & Gas Group, Head of
European Equity Research at JP Morgan and several years as an
equity research analyst in the oil and gas sector at Credit Suisse
First Boston and UBS Phillips & Drew.
She began her career in corporate planning and business
development in the exploration and production sector at
Charterhouse Petroleum and RTZ Oil & Gas. She was awarded a PhD in
the archaeology of ancient trade in May 2005.
Carol is a member of the investment advisory committee of Gemini
Oil and Gas (an oil and gas royalty fund).
Carol was also a Non-Executive Director of Revus Energy ASA
through 2008. Carol is currently a Non-executive director of Det
norske oljeselskap ASA, Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, Salamander
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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. |
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Ian Bruce
Non-Executive Director
Mr Ian Bruce is currently the Co-Chairman 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.
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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