Board of Directors

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Sara Akbar, Director and Chairwoman of the Board

  • Chemical Engineer with more than 30 years’ experience, having led and built oil and gas companies, services and projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

  • CEO and Chair of OilServe Kuwait, a leading integrated oilfield services company in the MENA region

  • Independent Director of Petrofac, a leading international engineering and services provider in oil and gas, since 2018

  • Co-founder of Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) which developed assets in Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan, and was sold to United Energy Group in 2019

  • Chairperson of the Advisory Board to the business school of American University of Kuwait, a member of the Kuwait Supreme Council for Planning and Development and an active member of the Board of Trustees of Kuwait’s Silk Territory project

  • Serves on the board of the Merchant Fund, a fund created by ICC

Dean Callaway, Director and Chief Financial Officer

  • Chartered Professional Accountant (MBA And BComm) with more than 30 years’ experience in the energy and finance industries

  • CFO for private and public companies for more than a decade, with experience in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, France, Namibia, Niger and the United States

  • Previous Head of Mergers and Acquisition for Terasen Pipeline

  • Corporate finance and international business development experience at Enbridge and TransAlta

  • Energy investment banking experience at Merrill Lynch

Henry Legarre, Director

  • Professional geoscientist  (MSc) with more than 30 years’’ experience in the international oil and gas sector

  • Managing Director at Addax Petroleum Services, responsible for the successful exploration and development of the Taq Taq oilfield in Iraq, sold to SINOPEC in 2009

  • Co-founder and COO for Oryx Petroleum, which explored and developed assets in Iraq, Nigeria, Senegal and the Republic of Congo

  • Started with Chevron in Bakersfield, CA, developing heavy oil assets, a post that led to work in a variety of capacities managing assets in Nigeria, Angola, China, Venezuela, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Brazil for more than 17 years

  • Currently part of executive team developing a new clean-energy-from-oil process, combining EOR and geothermal process in mature fields to increase recovery and creating net-zero electricity with no CO2 emissions

Greg Renwick, Director and Chief Executive Officer

  • More than 40 years’ experience in executive, technical leadership roles at global petroleum companies

  • Extensive experience in the Middle East, with management and advisory positions with Kuwait Foreign Petroleum, Dana Gas PJSC, and Centurion Petroleum International

  • 25 years at Mobil Oil Canada, holding technical, technical management, executive management, and business development positions in Canada, the U.S., Indonesia, the Middle East, and Central Asia

  • Has held executive and non-executive board positions in North America with East West Petroleum (President and CEO), North American Oil and Gas, and TransAtlantic Petroleum

  • Holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Canada) and an MSc in geology from Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada)