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Board and management

Exploration driven growth to produce Helium

Board

Clive Carver

Clive Carver

Non-Executive Chairman

Lorna Blaisse

Lorna Blaisse

Chief Executive Officer

Nigel Friend

Nigel Friend

Non-Executive Director

Nishant Dighe

Nishant Dighe

Non-Executive Director

Sarah Cope

Sarah Cope

Head of Governance and Compliance

Graham Jacobs

Graham Jacobs

Finance and Commercial Director

Clive Carver

Non-Executive Chairman

Clive is an experienced public company non-executive director and chairman, having been chairman of a number of AIM companies in recent years, with direct experience in, amongst others, the oil & gas, oilfield services and mining sectors. Clive is currently Chairman of AIM listed Caspian Sunrise plc and Built Cybernetics plc.

Clive is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA) and was for 30 years a fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (FCT). While working in the UK broking industry Clive gained more than 15 years' experience as a Qualified Executive under the AIM Rules where he ran the Corporate Finance departments of several of the larger and more active Nominated Adviser firms.

Lorna Blaisse

Chief Executive Officer

Skilled explorationist with 17+ years oil and gas experience in Africa. Successfully led exploration drilling campaigns in East and Central Africa, with extensive geological knowledge of the East Africa Rift System.

Nigel Friend

Non-Executive Director

Former CEO and CFO of Orca Energy with 35+ years of experience in successfully growing companies through a clear focus on cash generation.

Nishant Dighe

Non-Executive Director

A chemical and petroleum engineer with 30 + years as a senior oil and gas executive, including COO and interim CEO of Oslo-listed Panoro Energy and most recently, he served as CEO of RAK Gas, the National Oil and Gas Company of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, and as CEO of the RAK Petroleum Authority.

Sarah Cope

Head of Governance and Compliance

20+ years of experience in investment banking and as Nomad / Broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, RFC Ambrian, FinnCap Ltd and RBC Capital Markets.

Graham Jacobs

Finance and Commercial Director

An experienced financial and commercial executive with over 30 years of experience in the natural resources sector. He has extensive expertise in the oil and gas industry having held a number of senior positions in E&P companies.

Management

Mike Williams

Mike Williams

Director of Operations

Chris Eyre

Chris Eyre

Chief Financial Officer

Mike Williams

Director of Operations

A Technical Engineering and Operations Manager with 16+ years experience working on remote projects globally including Southern and Eastern Africa. Delivering cost effective drilling operations whilst focusing on performance and safety. Extensive knowledge of well engineering and drilling exploration and appraisal projects.

Chris Eyre

Chief Financial Officer

Financial Executive based in Tanzania with 15+ years experience in senior positions across East & Southern Africa. Previously Financial Director for Tata East Africa region & Financial Controller heading the South African office for Traxys