Ron Royal
Director
President of Esso Exploration & Production Chad, where he oversaw the 1,000 km Chad–Cameroon export pipeline and was honoured as Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Tchad.
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Independent oversight.
Directors providing governance, capital-markets perspective, and host-state insight independent of the executive.
Simon Akit P. ENG., MBA
Director
Thirty years across upstream operations and energy capital markets — with more than US$5 billion raised in equity and debt at firms including Canaccord Genuity, Ventum Financial, and BMO Capital Markets.
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Elias Pungong
Director
For over 15 years the Africa Oil & Gas Leader at Ernst & Young, advising across 19 Sub-Saharan nations — an Oxford statistician and Fellow of the ICAEW shaping Africa's energy investment.
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The team running the company.
Officers accountable for strategy, capital, operations, subsurface, and governance — day to day, from Calgary to Chad.
Curtis Cohen
Chief Executive Officer
Forty-five years in global oil and gas — from a start at Esso Exploration (ExxonMobil) to 500 million barrels of discoveries in Thailand, quadrupling Pogo's market cap to $3 billion.
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David Teh
VP, Country Manager
Four decades in international upstream rooted in the ExxonMobil/Esso world — Esso Production Malaysia (EPMI) and Esso Resources Canada among them — with a key role delivering the Caracal export pipeline in Chad.
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Jeff Ratcliffe
Chief Financial Officer
A seasoned CPA and Chief Financial Officer to multiple Canadian energy companies — 20 years leading corporate finance, governance, and growth across US, African, and international energy markets.
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Dave Burstall
Corporate Secretary
A securities lawyer of 38 years and Managing Partner at Prelia (Calgary) — advising on IPOs, secondary financings, and M&A from both issuer and underwriter sides.
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Nicolas Bonnefoy
General Counsel
Dual-qualified and dual-citizen (France and England), Nicolas is an oil and gas lawyer, who has had an exclusive focus on Africa for more than 25 years. He has an extended experience of oil and gas regimes, contracts and transactions in Africa, and a deep understanding of the oil and gas industry in Africa.
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