Dick is a geologist with more than 35 years of experience in the international energy industry, mainly in the independent sector. He has worked for the Saskatchewan (Canada) Department of Mineral Resources (1969-72), for Murphy Oil (1972 -75) and for Ranger Oil (1975-81). He was Exploration Manager and subsequently Exploration Director of Goal Petroleum plc from 1981 until 1996.

From July 2000 until its acquisition by Sterling Energy, he was a Non-Executive Director of Fusion Oil & Gas plc. Dick currently manages a private energy company, Montrose Industries Ltd, which has interests in a wide range of energy projects. He also has considerable private venture capital experience. He is a former Chairman (1990) of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and a Council Member (2000-2003) of the Geological Society of London, whose Audit Committee he Chairs. He also serves on their Investment and Remuneration Committees.

Following graduation under a British Petroleum scholarship programme, Harry joined BP and worked for 17 years in a variety of exploration and corporate finance roles. In 1987, he left BP to form Kirkland Resources which was listed in London as Dragon Oil in 1993.

In 1997, Harry was the principal founding partner of the Endeavour Oil & Gas Limited Partnership and following the successful sale of Endeavour in 2000 was a founding partner and director of Sterling. Following the listing of Sterling on AIM in 2002, Harry was appointed Chief Executive of the group.

Graeme has held a number of senior finance and management positions in quoted companies. In 1989, he co-led a management buy-in to AmBrit International plc, which was taken over in 1992. He then joined the Kirkland Group, which later became Dragon Oil plc, where he served as Finance Director and Company Secretary until April 1999.

A founder partner of Endeavour and Sterling, he has assisted unquoted and quoted companies, including Sterling LP and the Company, with their corporate finance, accounting, commercial and strategic affairs. He was appointed as a non-executive of the Company in July 2001, and as an executive in October 2002.

Andrew joined Sterling in 2002, as the company’s Exploration Manager. He has extensive international exploration experience with operating oil companies in Africa, the Middle East and North America. Prior to joining Sterling, he was British-Borneo’s Exploration Manager for the Gulf of Mexico and then for International New Ventures where he was instrumental in securing an interest in the offshore Mauritanian acreage which subsequently delivered the Chinguetti oil discovery and the Tiof oil discovery.

He began his career with Gulf Oil in Canada, and has also worked with BP Exploration and Ultramar Exploration. He was appointed as a director in January 2005.

Jon joined Sterling as Finance Director in February 2008. He is an experienced finance professional with advisory experience in the oil and gas industry.

Jon began his career with KPMG where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and in 1997 joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as a Director in the Oil and Gas Corporate Finance Team. During this time he worked on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and as strategic adviser to a wide range of companies including Gazprom, Lukoil, OMV, PKN Orlen, Unocal, Petronas and Harvest Natural Resources. Prior to joining Sterling Jon spent two years working as Finance Director at Gulf Keystone Petroleum.

Peter graduated in law from the London School of Economics, and has spent most of his career managing and developing smaller companies, working in the oil sector for the last sixteen years. In 1989, he was appointed Vice-President of Aviva Petroleum Inc., the Dallas based oil and gas independent, where his responsibilities particularly included corporate financial control and integration of acquisitions.

He has been a director of the Company since its foundation in 1983, serving as a full time director from 1991 to 2001, firstly as Chief Operating Officer and latterly as Managing Director. Since July 2001, he has served as a Non-Executive Director and is chairman of the Audit Committee.

Chris joined the “City” in 1973, initially with the London Stock Exchange and in 1983, he moved to Capel Cure Myers (subsequently ANZ Merchant Bank) in the role of corporate finance adviser, specialising in small- and medium-sized growth companies. He became a partner at Coopers & Lybrand in 1990 before joining Beeson Gregory in 1995.

Beeson Gregory was subsequently taken over by the Evolution Group in 2002, and upon the merger Mr. Callaway became Joint Head of Corporate Finance, retiring in December 2004. Since then, Mr. Callaway has been involved in the flotation of a number of companies of which he is both an investor and a director.

Dan served as Executive Vice-President and COO for Whittier Energy from 2003 until its acquisition by Sterling in 2007. He has 21 years of industry experience and is a former Managing Director of Acquisitions and Divestitures and Director for Torch Energy Advisors and a former Manager of Acquisitions and Divestitures for Apache Corp.

Dan has also worked as a consultant for Regent Energy Corporation and as Executive Vice-President of Business Development and COO of Petrominerals Corporation.

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