DIRECTORS
John Greenall (Non-Executive Chairman), aged 70, joined RC Greig & Co in Glasgow in 1960 becoming a partner in 1965. He assisted in the formation and subsequent fund raising of London and Scottish Marine Oil (LASMO) and Clyde Petroleum. Mr Greenall was instrumental in creating Greig Middleton through the merger of RC Greig and WN Middleton in 1983. He joined The Stock Exchange Council in 1985 and served on the Board of its Successor - The Securities Association. In 1994 he joined HCIB (a subsidiary of Guinness Mahon ("GM")) as director of Corporate Broking. When GM was taken over by Investec in 1998 he headed up the corporate broking team at that bank. One of HCIB's specialist research areas was the Exploration & Production sector and he oversaw a number of flotations in the sector the most recent being Venture Production before he retired in 2002. He is a non-executive director of RP&C International Limited a niche investment bank based in London.
Dr Stephen Boldy (Chief Executive Officer), aged 54, is a petroleum geologist with 28 years experience. From 1980 to 1984 Dr Boldy worked as a petroleum geologist for the Petroleum Affairs Division of the Department of Energy in Dublin and then spent almost 19 years with Amerada Hess Corporation, where his appointments included U.K. Exploration Manager and International Exploration Manager. In March 2003 he joined Ramco as Vice President Ireland and led the flotation of Lansdowne Oil and Gas in 2006.
Dr Boldy has extensive experience of working Irish offshore basins and the basins west of Britain and earned his Ph.D in geology from Trinity College Dublin.
Emmet Kevin Brown (Director of Business Development), aged 59. Mr Brown is a petroleum geologist with 30 years' experience, having worked in many facets of exploration & production worldwide. Mr Brown was employed initially by Marathon Oil in positions of increasing responsibility and later as CEO and Managing Director of two junior quoted E&P oil and gas companies.
Christopher Moar (Finance Director and Company Secretary), aged 47. Mr Moar has an MA degree in Accountancy from Aberdeen University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Young in 1987.
He worked as a planning and financial accountant with Baker Oil Tools (United Kingdom) before joining Ramco in 1993. Mr Moar remains employed by Ramco as Finance Director and Company Secretary but is also be responsible for the finance function in Lansdowne as one of the services provided by the Ramco Services Agreement.
Steven Bertram (Non-Executive Director), aged 50, is Managing Director of Ramco and has been with Ramco since 1986. He was appointed to the Ramco board as Finance Director in 1991 and is now Managing Director of Ramco, having been appointed to that position in June 2005.
Mr Bertram has a background in oil and oil services companies gained through his time with Ramco and during his chartered accountancy training contracts. He has been involved with Ramco from the company's original USM listing through its move to AIM and its international offer and listing on the American Stock Exchange. Mr Bertram has an MA Honours degree in Economics with Accountancy from Aberdeen University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Young in 1984.
Viscount Torrington (Non-Executive Director), aged 66, graduated from Oxford University as a geologist in 1964. He served in technical and managerial roles with Anglo American plc and Lonrho plc. In 1975, he became managing director of the Attock Oil Company, later Anvil Petroleum plc. The latter was merged with Berkeley Exploration in 1986, and acquired by Ranger Oil the same year. In 1987, he became a Director of Flextech plc and chief executive of Exploration & Production Services (Holdings) Limited, better known as Expro, a major UK oilfield services contractor. In 1995, he became Managing Director of Heritage Oil & Gas Limited, later listed in Toronto as Heritage Oil Corporation.
Viscount Torrington has held non-executive appointments in several companies and is currently chairman of CYC Holdings plc, a company admitted to trading on AIM, which facilitates Chinese entities wishing to list their shares in London. He is also a non-executive director of a private Canadian oil and gas exploration and production company involved in West Africa.
Steven George Lampe (Non-Executive Director), aged 50, is an investment manager based in New York, USA. He is a managing member of Lampe, Conway & Co LLC, a limited liability company organised in the state of Delaware.
Thomas Anderson (Non-Executive Director), aged 65, has over twenty five years' direct executive experience involved in running a private group in the leisure, entertainment, advertising, forestry and property development business in Ireland. Mr Anderson has focused on risk management, corporate finance and portfolio diversification. After graduating in Commerce and Economics, he subsequently completed a Master of Business Administration Degree at University College Dublin. Mr Anderson is currently non-executive chairman of Circle Oil Plc.