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| | | | Daryl Fridhandler
Position: Q.C., Chairman
Daryl S. Fridhandler, Q.C. is a Partner with the law firm of Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP and practices as a member of the firm's corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions and commercial transactions groups. He has been active as a founder, director, officer or legal counsel of numerous for profit (public and private) and not for profit organizations, including government related entities. He was Chairman and a director of Innova Exploration Ltd. (TSX) (Cdn $400,000,000 on sale), Mr. Fridhandler has over 25 years experience in various legal and business aspects of the oil and gas business.
Mr. Fridhandler is presently the Chairman and a director of Palliser Oil and Gas Corporation (TSXV). In October, 2008, he was appointed to the Calgary Police Commission and is presently a Vice Chairman. Mr Fridhandler is also a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
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| | | Burkhard Franz
Position: President and Chief Executive Officer
Burkhard Franz has been an entrepreneurial business man for over 35 years. He has over 20 years experience in the international resources equity markets. He has held several executive positions with varied responsibilities in mining and oil and gas companies in Canada and Ecuador, South America. He brings a comprehension of financial equity markets and management of oil operations to the Corporation. He has raised equity capital for several companies in the mining and oil and gas industries. He started his career owning and directing several silviculture projects in Austria and Canada, and owning, directing and managing resort projects in Austria. Mr. Franz has actively served as President and director on boards of many private and public companies.
Mr. Franz graduated from the federal college for Agriculture and Forestry in Raumberg, Austria. He earned an engineering degree in Agriculture from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna, Austria in 1977. Mr Franz is fluent in German and English.
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| | | Lorraine McVean
Position: Director
Lorraine McVean is a practicing lawyer engaged in the provision of legal consulting services to various entities in the oil and gas industry. Prior to becoming a consultant, she was a senior legal executive and officer of an intermediate public oil and gas company. Ms. McVean's legal practice has been focused on mergers and acquisition activity and acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas assets. Ms. McVean has extensive experience with publicly traded companies, having served on the Board of Directors and Audit Committees of several companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Ms. McVean is also a member of the Board of Directors of the YWCA of Calgary, a not-for-profit charitable organization. Ms. McVean holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of British Columbia. She is a recent graduate of the Directors Education Program at the Haskyne School of Business and is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors.
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| | | Wayne Fast, P.Eng.
Position: Vice President Operations and Corporate Planning
Mr. Fast has held numerous positions over the last thirty nine years with junior, medium and large multinational oil and gas corporations. His positions have focused primarily on drilling, production, and operations matters in Western Canada and also on mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Fast has served in positions with Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Corporation (Wascana) and Amerada Hess (Canada), Canadian Pioneer Energy Inc. Prime West, Foothills Oil and Gas Ltd. and RSX Energy Inc. Mr. Fast has also acted as a consultant to numerous enterprises.
Mr. Fast earned a BSc in Chemical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan and his Certificate in Management Development from University of Calgary. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geologists of Alberta and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
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| | | Dr. Krishna Persad
Position: Vice President, Caribbean Region
Dr. Krishna Persad has over 40 years experience in the oil industry in Trinidad and internationally. He is considered an expert on the petroleum geology and petroleum industry of Trinidad and Tobago. He has been an independent oil producer in Trinidad for over 20 years
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| | | Savi Franz
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Savi Franz has over 25 years of industry experience broadly distributed across finance and accounting functions at escalating seniority and has progressively held more responsible positions. Ms. Franz has previously proven herself proficient in the organization of accounting systems and processes in early stage, growing oil and gas companies including Georox Resources Inc. She has also taken on integral supervisory roles in an operational environment and has been instrumental in successful acquisition efforts.
Ms. Franz has held a position of increasing responsibility at Price Waterhouse/Coopers (Trinidad and Tobago), Ladbrokes Holdings PLC (U.K.), Ashpaltic Holdings (PLC (U.K.) and more recently at several Canadian junior oil and gas companies. Ms. Franz holds diploma/degree in Finance and Accounting at N.E.L.P./South West London College, U.K.
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