Directors

After graduating in geology from Oxford University, Mr. Adair qualified as a Chartered Accountant specialising in oil and gas taxation. Mr. Adair is Executive Chairman of Melrose Resources plc, a UK listed oil and gas group which he founded in 1992. He is also Executive Chairman of Terrace Hill Group plc, a property development and investment group listed on AIM. He is also non-executive chairman of AIM-listed Plexus Holdings PLC, a company producing innovative wellheads for the oil industry.

Mr. Wilson has over 27 years experience in oil and gas exploration and production. Mr. Wilson has served as President & CEO of LPLLC since November 2005. Immediately prior to joining the company Mr. Wilson was Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Darcy Exploration, Inc. from January 2000 through to October 2002 when Darcy Exploration, Inc. was purchased by Novus Petroleum, Ltd. He then served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations of Novus Louisiana, LLC until October 2005. Mr. Wilson was also Vice President of Operations of Petsec Energy, Inc., a position he held from 1993 to 2000. Between 1981 and 1993, Mr. Wilson held various technical and managerial positions with Placid Oil Company and Nerco Oil and Gas, Inc. involving onshore and offshore oil and gas fields in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Mr. Wilson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, USA

Mr. Slatten has over 25 years of commercial and legal experience in the oil and gas industry. He has served as an executive director of Leed Petroleum LLC since November 2005. Immediately prior to joining Leed, Mr. Slatten was Vice President of Land and Legal at Darcy Exploration Inc. (later Novus Louisiana LLC) from March 2000 to November 2005. He served in a similar capacity at Petsec Energy, Inc. between 1998 and 2001. Mr. Slatten was a member of the Gordon, Arata law firm from 1985 to 1998, where in focused on energy and financing transactions, and he clerked for the United States District Court in New Orleans in 1983-84. Mr. Slatten holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics from the University of Louisiana and post-graduate degrees in business management and law from Tulane University.

Mr. Alcock commenced his career as a financial analyst with Ford of Europe from where he joined Gulf Oil Company in London, initially dealing with their exploration and production activities in the Middle East and Africa. He later moved to senior financial positions with Gulf Oil Company and eventually became Head of Strategic Planning for refining and marketing in Europe. Following his time at Gulf Oil Company, Mr. Alcock joined Black and Decker Inc. as chief financial officer based in Maryland, USA. He left Black and Decker Inc. to become chief financial officer at RJR Nabisco. Mr. Alcock is currently non-executive chairman of Anglo and Overseas Investment Trust, chairman of Next Group Pensions Trustees Ltd, senior non-executive director at Huntsworth plc and a non-executive director of Connaught Group Plc. Mr. Alcock is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Mr. Gibbs is an investment banker based in Singapore, who focuses primarily on the natural resource sector, specifically including upstream oil and gas. During the past 5 years, Mr. Gibbs has been involved in a number of successful oil and gas transactions including management buyouts, public and private takeovers and IPOs. Until August 2008, Mr Gibbs was employed as a Managing Director of Crosby Capital’s merchant banking business, a role he assumed following the acquisition of the Asian investment banking and asset management business of the Crosby Group by Techpacific Capital Limited in 2002. Prior to joining Crosby in 1997, Mr. Gibbs was responsible for the Asian operations of Enskilda Securities and was based in their Singapore office. He joined Enskilda Securities (London) in 1990 and worked on a range of corporate finance transactions, including major debt restructuring assignments, which followed the Scandinavian crisis in the early 1990s. Mr. Gibbs began his career with Arthur Andersen (London) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Mr. Gibbs has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University, England.

Mr. Hirsch is Managing Director of Hirsch Technical Ltd, a London-based management consultancy specializing in business development and transformation. During his twenty-five year international career in oil and gas exploration with Shell, Chevron and others, he was responsible for several new oilfield discoveries, a positive outcome from a complex North Sea equity re-determination and a number of technical innovations. Following an assignment as internal Change Management consultant with the company’s UK operating company, in which his team reduced OPEX by several million dollars while improving service quality, he founded Hirsch Technical in 1998 to support clients in a wide variety of management consulting projects, mainly in the oil and engineering sectors. Mr. Hirsch has an MA in Natural Science from University of Cambridge, England, an MSc and DIC from Imperial College, University of London and a Diploma in Management Studies from Birkbeck College, London University.

Mr. Fleming is a Senior Analyst at ADM Capital, a US$2.5b private equity and special situations fund management company based in Hong Kong. Mr. Fleming joined ADM Capital in 2005, and has eleven years of investment experience, having worked at Robertson Stephens as a senior equity research analyst, and at MRET, where he managed a portfolio of investments in venture-stage energy technology companies and clean energy projects. Mr. Fleming currently serves as an executive director at the IB Daiwa Corporation, and was appointed to the Board on 29 October 2008. Mr. Fleming holds a BA degree in Government and East Asian Studies from Harvard College, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.