Dr David Winter
CEO
Dr David Winter
CEO
40 years experience in technical, management and leadership roles living and working in Latin America, Middle East, SE Asia and UK North Sea. British Petroleum, Sun Oil, Canadian Occidental (now CNOOC), Alberta Energy Company (now Ovintiv), Calvalley Petroleum.
Founder and Director of Canacol Energy Ltd. and Founder, prior CEO and Director of Excelsior Energy Limited, an oil sands-focused exploration company.
BSc (Hons) in Geology from the University of London, an MSc in Structural Geology and Rock Mechanics from Imperial College, University of London and a PhD in Structural Geology from Edinburgh University.
Roger McMechan
President and COO
Roger McMechan
President and COO
40 years of diverse engineering experience in managing domestic and international oil and gas operations.
Senior management positions for Petro Canada and Burlington Resources in North Africa and Canada; Executive VP and Director of Winstar Resources with operations in Canada, Tunisia, Hungary and Romania; CEO and Director of Iskander Energy, a private company that operated in Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland and Ukraine; Technical Director of Block Energy Plc with operations in Georgia.
BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo
Shern Tan Liang
Non-Executive Director
Shern Tan Liang
Non-Executive Director
Founder and CEO of One Tree Partners, a licensed asset management firm in Singapore that has had over US$1bn in mining and commercial deal flow.
Held increasingly senior management and executive roles at Citibank, UBS and Goldman Sachs in Singapore.
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Charle Gamba
Non-Executive Director
Dr. Charle Gamba
Non-Executive Director
Founder, President and CEO at Canacol Energy Ltd.
30 years of oil and gas experience in SE Asia, the Middle East, West Africa, Canada, and Latin America. Imperial Oil, Canadian Occidental (now CNOOC), Alberta Energy Company (now Ovintiv) and Occidental Petroleum. Served on the board of directors of several publicly listed and private oil and gas companies.
B.Sc., M.Sc.and PhD in Geology.
Riccardo M. Monti
Non-Executive Director
Riccardo M. Monti
Non-Executive Director
Executive Chairman of Triboo, a leading Italian company in the sectors of digital services and e-commerce, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange.
Executive VP of the Italy-China Foundation, established in 2003 to foster economic, political and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Prior President of Interporto Sud Europa S.p.A, Director of Alilauro and Chairman of Italferr S.p.A. Worked with corporations and governments in over 50 countries dealing with privatization and projects of international expansion and relocation.