Board of Directors
Sara Akbar, Director
Chemical Engineer with over 30 yearrs experience, having led and built oil and gas companies, services and projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
CEO and Chair of OilServe Kuwait, a leading integrated oilfield services company in the MENA region
Independent Director of Petrofac since 2018, a leading engineering and services provider in energy Internationally
Co-Founder of Kuwait Energy Company (KEC) which developed assets in Iraq, Egypt, 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
Member of the board of Trustee of the Marchant Fund, a fund created by ICC
Richard Wadsworth, CEO, Director and Chairman of the Board
Petroleum Engineer with over 30 years of experience in the WCSB and internationally specializing in brownfield re-vitalization and re-development
Led the re-development of 55,000 Bopd & plans to 230,000 bopd in Iraq 2018-2023
Co-founder, President of Bankers Petroleum; Production 0 to 7,000 BOPD; 2P reserves of 100+ MMbbl, Bankers sold $575MM
Koch Exploration, developed over 30,000 bopd CHOPS heavy oil production in Alberta.
Henry Legarre, Director
Professional Geoscientist (MSc.) with over 30 years of 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 California developing heavy oil assets then leading him to working in a variety of capacities in assets in Nigeria, Angola, China, Venezuela, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Brazil for over 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
Dean Callaway, Director and Chief Financial Officer
Chartered Professional Accountant, MBA And BComm, with over 30 years of experience in the energy and finance industry
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 lnvestmentBanking at Merrill Lynch