The Board of Directors of Victoria Oil & Gas Plc (“Victoria” or the “Company”), the AIM-quoted oil and gas company, confirms the appointment of four new Directors to the Board, as previously announced.
Messrs Rashed Saif Al-Suwaidi, Philip Graeme Rand and Mukhtar Tuyakbayev have been appointed as Non-Executive Directors and Mr George William Gareth Donne has been appointed as an Executive Director.
Mr. Al Suwaidi (49) is a petroleum engineer and former Exploration and Production Director for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Mr Al Suwaidi is Chairman of Horizon Energy LLC, a Middle-Eastern energy consultancy specialising in oil and gas E&P support services and offshore/onshore facilities and also holds directorships with Falcon Petroleum Limited, Al Maha Petroleum Products Marketing Co. S.A.O.G., Colombo Dockyards PLC, Maritime Industrial Services Co. Ltd. Inc., Gulf Marine Services, the Horizon Energy LLC group of companies, the Abu Dhabi National Investment Company and Noor Capital PSC & Associates.
Mr. Rand (55) has over thirty years of financial experience, of which seventeen have been in the upstream energy sector and is a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is currently chief executive and chief financial officer of Equator Exploration Limited, an AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration and production company with assets in West Africa and was formerly chief financial officer of Burren Energy PLC. Mr. Rand currently holds directorships with Falcon Petroleum Limited, Michco 337 Ltd, RS Energy Ltd and previously with Capital Investment Partnership (UK) Ltd and the Utilyx Holdings Limited group of companies.
Mr. Tuyakbayev (49) is a Kazakhstan-based businessman, having enjoyed successful ventures in several different fields including more than 10 years in mining and exploration industries. He is current an Executive Director of Celtic Resources Holdings Plc with responsibility for the finding and acquisition of new projects, attracting local banks to project financing and relations with FSU state institutions. As well as Celtic Resources, Mr Tuyakbayev is a director of Avers LLP, the Auliye group, Soho Central Asia LLP, Discovery Aviation LLP, Central Asia Gifts, DOSAAF Tour, Millennium Projects Limited, Torgay LLP, Source Engineering LLP and Central Asia Service & Supply LLP.
Mr Donne (30) is a former investment banker specialising in natural resources and has been the Company’s General Manager for over three years based in London. Mr Donne currently holds 229,807 ordinary shares in the Company.
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