David is a senior oil & gas operations executive with 30 years domestic and international experience. Graduated a Colorado School of Mines Petroleum Engineer, Roberts has a rare background in the industry, having extensive hands-on experience performing nearly every job of a petroleum engineer, from designing, drilling and completing a well, to reservoir engineering, production operations and managing country operations, including full responsibility for all operational, commercial and stakeholder matters in country.

Working in an exceedingly challenging stakeholder environment, Roberts was VP Operations and Managing Director of Orca Energy Tanzania and the company's COO, managing the first of only two of that country’s producing gas fields. He oversaw development and operations of some 60 MMscfd of natural gas, which provides generates power supplying 60% of the country as part of the first gas-to-power project in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to Orca, Roberts was Managing Director for Orca's predecessor company, PanOcean, in its only country of operations, Gabon, taking crude oil production from 200 bopd to 20,000 bopd in 2006, when the company was sold for US$1.4 billion. David stayed on to manage the transition to PanOcean's new owners.

In total, Roberts spent over 20 years in field operations and country management in East and West Africa, his earlier years with the French private company, Perenco. An active investor and licensed operator in Kansas, acquiring, reworking, drilling and managing a number of properties in East and Central Kansas.

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Robert Wynne

A senior level international oil executive, Robert has 40 years of global oil and gas industry and investment banking experience, a good portion of which performed in CFO, COO, Managing Director and CEO roles. Also hands-on by predisposition, Wynne's diverse experience has developed a unique understanding of the energy industry -- operationally, as a business, as a leadership challenge and its ultimate responsibility to stakeholders. Robert's focus has been on capturing, preserving and enhancing value to stakeholders by a combination of hands-on management, transparent communication and the judicious use of financial tools.

Working with David Roberts in the capacity of the senior financial executive and advisor to the Chairman and controlling shareholder at both Orca and PanOcean over two decades, Wynne was a key member of the team stewarding those companies, overcoming significant operational and stakeholder challenges to ultimately succeed in realizing significant growth in production, cash flow and ultimate monetization of operationally and politically challenging assets.

Mr. Wynne’s transaction experience spans some 100 public and private equity, conventional and structured debt and M&A transactions totalling in excess of $10 billion. Obtaining degrees in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Alberta, Mr. Wynne worked for several years in a variety of upstream energy technical and business roles in the Canadian domestic oil & gas sector, prior to entering the investment banking business.