Board of Directors
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)