Chairman

Sir Adrian Montague CBE

Sir Adrian joined the Board in July 2011. A highly respected figure in the City, he is also Chairman of 3i Group plc and is Non-Executive Chairman of Michael Page International PLC, CellMark AB and Anglian Water Group, as well as a Director of Skanska AB. Recently he has also been appointed to chair the Advisory Board of the Green Investment Bank.

Sir Adrian is a member of the Nominations Committee.

Bill Guest

Bill graduated in geology from Leicester University and has over 35 years of international exploration and production experience in technical, business development and senior management functions. He spent his formative years as a geologist and petroleum engineer with Shell International before moving to the UK independent oil sector, initially with Saxon Oil and then with Monument Oil and gas where Bill held the position of Technical Director and Business Development Director. More recently, Bill was Managing Director of Endeavour North Sea and subsequently President of Gulf Keystone Petroleum. Bill is a founding partner of Guest & Associates, an international business development consultancy service for the upstream oil and gas industry, and a Non-Executive Director of Matra Petroleum.

Bill is Chairman of the Nominations Committee, and a member of the Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee.

Jon Murphy

Jon has over 30 years of experience in mid-cap oil exploration and production companies. After graduating from the University of London with a degree in geology and then gaining experience in junior technical roles within the industry, he joined LASMO in 1989 where he held various positions in geology, planning and new business, based in the UK and Asia. In 1999, Jon joined Venture Production PLC as Chief Operating Officer and played a key role in its growth from a small private equity-backed company, through flotation in 2002 to become one of the leading oil and gas companies active in the North Sea, and ultimately to its successful sale to Centrica in 2009.

Jon is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, and a member of the Nominations Committee and Audit Committee.

Philip Dayer

Philip has over 30 years of public market and corporate finance experience, gained with a number of prominent City institutions. During this time he advised a wide range of public companies including UK and international groups active in the oil and gas sector. After graduating in law from King’s College, London, Philip qualified as a chartered accountant and went on to gain extensive experience as Director or Head of Corporate Finance with various investment banks in London. Philip is a non-executive Director of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production and was a non-executive Director of Dana Petroleum PLC from 2006 until its recent takeover by KNOC in 2010. He is also a Non-Executive Director of a number of other companies.

Philip is Chairman of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Nominations Committee and Remuneration Committee.