Management:
Jeff Chisholm (B.Sc)
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Chisholm is a geoscientist with over 30 years of International development and new venture evaluations experience with Orion Securities, Bow Valley Energy, Canadian Occidental Petroleum, PanCanadian Petroleum and Niko Resources. Mr. Chisholm is a director of ROK Resources Inc. and was a director and Chief Executive Officer of Pan Orient Energy Corp.
Marcel Nunes (CPA, CA)
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary
Mr. Nunes has 15 years of experience in oil and gas accounting. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Calgary and is a Chartered Accountant.
Directors:
Gerald Macey (M.Sc. P.Geol),
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Macey has over 40 years of international and domestic oil industry experience and was an Executive Vice President Exploration at EnCana Corporation until 2004. He was the director at Pan Orient Energy Corp., Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited, Addax Petroleum Corporation, Gran Tierra Energy inc., and Verenex Energy inc. which were each international oil and gas companies listed on the TSX or TSX Venture Exchange.
Chris Newton
Mr. Newton co-founded the Risco Energy Investment group in 2010 and served as Director of Business Development at Risco. Mr. Newton has a career spanning 45 years in upstream oil and gas covering the full spectrum of exploration, development and production in Australasia and SE Asia. Prior to Risco, former positions included: Managing Director of Fletcher Challenge in Brunei, Managing Director of Shell Deepwater Borneo, President of Santos-Indonesia and CEO of Jakarta-listed oil and gas company, EMP. Most recently, Mr. Newton had served 7 years as Executive Chairman at Tap Oil Ltd., until the sale of the company. Mr. Newton was an active Director of the Indonesian Petroleum Association between 2003 to 2008, including serving as President from 2004 to 2007. He remains the oil and gas advisor to the Jakarta based Castle Asia Group and is a Non-Executive Director of ASX listed Lion Energy Limited. Mr. Newton has a Geology Degree from Collingwood College, University of Durham, England (1978) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (1993).
Cam Taylor (B.Sc)
Mr. Taylor is a geoscientist with over 30 years of experience in frontier, foothills, deep Devonian and heavy oil exploration. He is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the audit committee of ROK Resources Inc. Mr. Taylor held executive positions with Villanova 4 Oil Corp., Villanova Oil Corp., Villanova Resources Inc. and Villanova Energy Corp. until their respective sales and prior to that with Keystone Energy Corp., Keystone Energy Inc. and Canadian 88 Energy Corp. Each company is or was an oil and gas company focused on exploration and production in Western Canada. Mr. Taylor was director of Pan Orient Energy Corp. which was an international oil and gas company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Richard M. Alexander (CFA, CPA, CMA)
Mr. Alexander has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He is a director of Global Water Resources Corp. and was a director of Pan Orient Energy Corp. He holds a Bachelor of Business Management from Ryerson University and is a Certified Management Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.