Management Team
 | Bruce McCarthy(Managing Director) Appointed Managing Director in February 2005, Dr McCarthy has over 30 years experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry in geotechnical and management positions. He has experience gained in Australia, North Sea, India subcontinent and SE Asia, onshore and offshore and with large international companies and independents. He has worked in India in different phases since 1995 and has a broad knowledge and experience of the industry in that country. He is a member of PESA and IAPG spending a large proportion of time in Gujarat managing the companies Indian venture activities. |
 | Ray Barnes(Technical Director) Appointed as a Director in September 2005, Mr Barnes has over 36 years experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. Mr Barnes has worked in Europe, North and South America, South East Asia, the Middle East and Australia with an outstanding record of finding and developing commercial oil and gas discoveries in Australia and internationally. Recent appointments include Technical Director of Voyager Energy Limited from 2001 until 2005 and Exploration Manager of Apache Energy based in Perth during a very aggressive exploration and development phase in the offshore Carnarvon Basin when over 40 discoveries were made. Prior to 1997, Mr Barnes held senior management positions for Ampolex based in Denver, Colorado where he was responsible for the United States and South American operations following a period in Perth, Western Australia where he was responsible for North West Shelf and Timor Sea operations. |
 | Ben Clube(Finance Director) Mr Clube joined Oilex in May 2008 and was appointed Finance Director in July 2009. Mr Clube brings a depth of international oil and gas commercial expertise to the Oilex group, having spent the past 15 years at BHP Billiton Petroleum in a variety of senior management roles, including Vice President of Finance and Planning in Houston, London and Perth. A Chartered Accountant, he holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Geology from the University of Edinburgh and previously worked as Audit Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London.
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 | John Lamberto(Exploration Manager) Mr Lamberto joined Oilex in 2007 as Chief Geophysicist. He has over 25 years of experience in Australia and International oil and gas exploration activities. He has held various senior roles with Lasmo Energy plc, Ampolex Ltd, Mobil Exploration, OMV AG (Middle East) and BHPBilliton as well as having worked as an independent consultant.
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 | Jay Laurie(General Counsel and Company Secretary) Mr Laurie has over 15 years experience in private practice and in-house legal roles. Following a number of years with a large commercial law firm, he has held in-house counsel roles in the Australian and international resources sector over the last 9 years. Mr Laurie was Senior Counsel at Woodside Energy Ltd before joining Oilex in 2007 as General Counsel.
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 | Pete Bekkers(Chief Geoscientist) Joining Oilex in February 2007, Mr Bekkers has over 14 years experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. He is a petroleum geoscientist who has been involved in a variety of exploration and production projects within Australia, the Far East, Middle East, West Africa and South East Asia. Recent roles prior to joining Oilex include Senior Geoscientist (West Africa) and International New Ventures Evaluation at Woodside Energy. Mr Bekkers’ current responsibility is to conduct technical evaluations of Oilex’s assets as well as the evaluation of new business opportunities.
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