Board of Directors
Max Cozijn(Non-Executive Chairman) Chairman since the Company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) in 2003. Mr Cozijn has over 30 years experience in the administration of listed mining and industrial companies. He is the Finance Director of Carbon Energy Limited, Finance Director and Company Secretary of Magma Metals Limited and Chairman of Malagasy Minerals Limited and is a Director of various private companies, having also previously been a Non-Executive Director of Kagara Zinc Ltd for 20 years. |
 | 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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 | Laxmi Bhandari(Independent Non-Executive Director) Mr Bhandari was appointed as a director in November 2006 and is based in New Delhi, India. He trained as a geologist and worked with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ("ONGC"), the largest public sector corporation in the oil and gas sector in India, on many significant projects over 37 years including the discovery and development of the Bombay High offshore fields. Mr Bhandari held high level positions including Chairman and Managing Director of ONGC Videsh, the international exploration arm of ONGC, and Chairman of ONGC. On leaving ONGC, Mr Bhandari became President of Tata Petrodyne, the oil and gas subsidiary of Tata Industries, a very large Indian industrial corporation. In 2003 he took up the position of Managing Director of India Hydrocarbons Ltd until June 2006. |
 | Ron Miller(Non-Executive Director) Mr Miller was appointed as a director in July 2009. A chartered engineer, Mr Miller brings more than 30 years of experience in the international petroleum industry including corporate governance, extensive background in leading multi-disciplinary upstream organisations and project developments, including the design and construction of oil and gas projects. During his career, Mr Miller held a range of senior positions including with Mobil, Ampolex, Clough and Hyundai Heavy Industries.
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