Board of Directors

Chris Bruijnzeels

Chris Bruijnzeels

Chairman and Director

Mr. Bruijnzeels has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry and has been Chairman of ShaMaran Petroleum since 2019. Previously, he was President, CEO and Director of ShaMaran from 2015 until 2019. From 2003 until 2015, Mr. Bruijnzeels was Senior Vice President Development at Lundin Petroleum where he was responsible for operations, reserves and the development of the asset portfolio. In 1998, he joined PGS Reservoir Consultants in the UK where he worked as Principal Reservoir Engineer and Director of Evaluations. From 1985 until 1998, Mr. Bruijnzeels worked for Shell International in the Netherlands, Gabon and Oman in several reservoir engineering functions. Mr. Bruijnzeels was born in the Netherlands in 1959 and is a graduate of Delft University where he obtained a degree in Mining Engineering.

Garrett Soden

Garrett Soden

President, CEO and Director

Garrett Soden has worked with the Lundin Group since 2007 and has extensive experience as a senior executive and board member of various public companies in the natural resources sector.

Mr. Soden has been President and CEO of ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. since May 2023. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Panoro Energy ASA.

Mr. Soden holds a BSc honours degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Keith Hill

Keith Hill

Director

Mr. Hill has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, including more than 25 years with the Lundin Group, as well as international new venture management and senior exploration positions at Occidental Petroleum and Shell Oil Company. He was until recently President and CEO of Africa Oil Corp., a publicly-traded oil and gas company focused on Africa, and he is still on its Board of Directors. Mr. Hill previously served as President of Valkyries Petroleum, Pearl Exploration and ShaMaran Petroleum. He currently serves as a board member for several public oil and gas companies. His education includes a Master of Science degree in Geology and Bachelor of Science degree in Geophysics from Michigan State University, as well as an MBA from the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

Mike Ebsary

Mike Ebsary

Director

Mr. Ebsary is currently on the board of Africa Oil Corp. and was a director of Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited from 2010 through 2016. Mr. Ebsary served as the Chief Financial Officer of Addax Petroleum Corporation for eleven years between 1998 and 2009, after having held various positions in project finance and treasury with oil companies Elf Aquitaine and Occidental Petroleum, both in France and the United Kingdom. He began his career in multinational banking institutions in Canada and the United Kingdom. Mr. Ebsary is a graduate of Queen’s University in Canada.

William Lundin

William Lundin

Director

Mr. Lundin is the President and Chief Executive Officer of International Petroleum Corp. (“IPC”), an international oil and gas exploration and production company with a portfolio of assets located in Canada, Malaysia and France. Mr. Lundin has been with IPC since 2018 and was previously a project engineer in production operations. Prior to IPC, Mr. Lundin operated with BlackPearl Resources Inc. at its Onion Lake prospect located in Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mr. Lundin holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mineral Resource Engineering from Dalhousie University in Canada.

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