|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| | | |  | | | John Bentley | | Non-Executive Chairman |
John is British and has 40 years experience in the natural resources sector. He served in a number of senior management positions in the Gencor Group in South Africa, the USA, UK and Brazil.
In 1996 he was instrumental in floating Energy Africa Ltd on the Johannesburg stock exchange and became Chief Executive for the following five years.
More recently he was Executive Chairman of FirstAfrica Oil plc and served on the boards of Rift Oil plc and Adastra Minerals Ltd. He currently serves on the board of a number of resource companies including as Deputy Chairman of Wentworth Resources Ltd , non – executive director of Griffiths Energy International Inc and Chairman of Scotgold Resources Ltd .
Mr Bentley who holds a degree in Metallurgy from Brunel University, was appointed to the board in September 2007.
| | | |
|
|
| | | |  | | | Graham Stewart | | Chief Executive |
Graham is British and was instrumental in founding Faroe Petroleum in 1998, where he has been Chief Executive since December2002.
He holds an honours degree in Offshore Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and an MBA from Edinburgh University and has over 20 years' experience in oil and gas technical and commercial affairs.
He was previously Finance and Commercial Director at Dana Petroleum and Commercial Director of the Petroleum Science and Technology Institute. | | | |
|
|
| | | |  | | | Iain Lanaghan | | Finance Director |
lain is British and joined the Board as Group Finance Director in 2009.
Previous positions have included Group Finance Director of FirstGroup plc, Finance Director of Powergen International and Group Finance Director of the oil and gas services business Atlantic Power Limited, and founder of a German transport group, Abellio.
He is a Chartered Accountant, having qualified with KPMG in London and Frankfurt and is non-executive chairman of Marwyn European Transport plc. | | | |
|
|
| | | |  | | | Helge Hammer | | Chief Operating Officer |
Helge is Norwegian and joined Faroe Petroleum in 2006, where he is Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to joining Faroe Petroleum he was Asset Manager and deputy Managing Director at Paladin Resources.
He holds a degree in Petroleum Engineering from NTH University of Trondheim and in Economics from Institut Francais du Petrol in Paris. In addition he worked for Shell for 13 years as a Reservoir Engineer, Team Leader and Business Manager in Norway, Oman, Australia and Holland. | | | |
|
|
| | | |  | | | Tim Read | | Senior Independent Non-Executive Director |
Tim was appointed to the Board as non-executive director in March 2009.
He has over 40 years experience in the natural resource sector as an investment analyst, investment banker and corporate executive and director. He has extensive experience of all aspects of corporate finance, particularly M&A and equity markets.
Between 1999 and 2006 he was the Chief Executive of Adastra Minerals Inc, and since then has acted as non-executive director for several natural resource companies, including: Cumerio SA (acquired in 2008) and Nevoro Inc (acquired in 2009). Tim, who is currently a director of Metminco Limited and Capital Drilling Limited, has a BA (Economics) from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. | | | |
|
|
| | | |  | | | Roger Witts FCA | | Independent Non-Executive Director |
Roger is British and has over 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry.
Whilst he has broad senior management experience in upstream industry he has specific expertise in financial and tax planning, economic appraisal, debt finance and risk management. Mr Witts qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1970 with Coopers and Lybrand and then moved to The British Land Company in 1972 as financial controller of two quoted subsidiaries.
His oil industry experience started with Petrofina in 1976 where he held a number of senior positions including Managing Director of a combustion engineering subsidiary and Finance Director of Fina Exploration Company. He was Finance Director of Thomson North Sea from 1984 to 1989 and of Seafield Resources from 1990 to 1997.
Mr Witts was appointed to the board in May 2007 as part time finance director and became a non-executive director in May 2009. | | | |
|
|
| | | |  | | | Hanne Harlem | | Independent Non-Executive Director |
Hanne is a qualified lawyer with over twenty-five years of experience in the business, financial and political arenas in Norway.
She has held senior posts at The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway as Head Lawyer, was Deputy Chief Executive, Head of Power Trading and Power Markets at Norsk Hydro, and has held the position of non-executive director at Gaz de France Norge AS.
In addition she has acted as Minister of Justice for the Norwegian Government and Managing Director of the University of Oslo. Hanne is currently Non-executive Chairman of Helse Sør-Øst RHF (Regional Healthcare System) head of the City of Oslo Legal Department and is a Non-executive Member of the Boards of Hafslund ASA (a hydro power producer) and Aker ASA.
Hanne was appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director in July 2010. | | | |
|
|
| |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|