Board

Iain McKendrick

Non-Executive Chairman

Iain McKendrick has over 30 years of industry experience, holding Board positions across several listed companies. He was previously with NEO Energy, was Chief Executive Officer of Ithaca Energy, was Executive Chairman of Iona Energy, and spent several years with Total, including acting as Commercial Manager of Colombia.

Eytan Uliel

Chief Executive Officer

Eytan has assumed the position as Chief Executive Officer from 27 May 2021, having previously served as the Company’s Commercial Director since 2014. Eytan is a finance executive with significant oil and gas industry experience. He has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, general corporate advisory work, oil and gas industry-specific experience in public market takeovers and transactions, private treaty acquisitions and farm-in / farm-out transactions. He has held executive roles in various ASX and SGX listed companies.

Prior to working with Challenger Energy, from 2009 – 2014 Eytan was Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer of Dart Energy Limited, an ASX listed company that had unconventional gas assets (coal bed methane and shale gas) in Australia, Asia and Europe, and Chief Commercial Officer of its predecessor company, Arrow International Ltd, a Singapore based company that had unconventional gas asset primarily in Asia and Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of New South Wales, and was admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1997.

Simon Potter

Non-Executive Director

Simon Potter was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Company for nearly 10 years and oversaw the safe drilling of the Perseverance #1 well in the Bahamas. Simon assumed the role of a Non-Executive Director in May 2021.

Simon qualified as a geologist with an M.Sc. in Management Science, has over 30 years oil and gas industry and mining sector experience. From the Zambian Copperbelt to a 20-year career with BP he has held executive roles in companies managing oil and gas exploration, development and production; gas processing, sales and transport; LNG manufacture, marketing and contracting in Europe, Russia, America, Africa and Australasia. On leaving BP, having helped create TNK-BP, he took up the role of CEO at Hardman Resources where he oversaw growth of the AIM and ASX listed Company into an oil producer and considerable exploration success ahead of executing a corporate sale to Tullow Oil. After running his own consultancy he joined Arrow Energy International as CEO and following the sale of Arrow Energy to Shell and PetroChina launched their international assets onto the ASX as the separately listed Dart Energy. Simon is a member of the Company’s Remuneration Committee, Nomination Committee and the Health, Safety, Environmental and Security Committee.

Stephen Bizzell

Non-Executive Director

Stephen Bizzell has over 25 years’ corporate finance and public company management experience in the resources sector in Australia and Canada with various public companies.

He is the Chairman of boutique corporate advisory and funds management group Bizzell Capital Partners Pty Ltd. He is also the Chairman of ASX listed MAAS Group Holdings Ltd and Savannah Goldfields Ltd, and a Non-executive Director of ASX listed Renascor Resources Limited and Strike Energy Ltd.

He was an Executive Director of ASX listed Arrow Energy Ltd from 1999 until its acquisition in 2010 by Shell and PetroChina for A$3.5 billion. He was instrumental in Arrow’s corporate and commercial success and its growth from a junior explorer to a large integrated energy company. He was also a founding director of Bow Energy Ltd until it’s A$550 million takeover and was also a founding director of Stanmore Resources Ltd.

Stephen qualified as a Chartered Accountant and early in his career was employed in the Corporate Finance division of Ernst & Young and the Corporate Tax division of Coopers & Lybrand. Stephen is also the Chairman of Challenger Energy Audit Committee.

Robert Bose

Non-Executive Director

Robert Bose is the Managing Member of Charlestown Energy Partners, a private investment company associated with a New York-based family office that has been making investments globally in the upstream business since 2016. Robert is also the Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors of Sintana Energy, Inc., a Toronto Venture listed oil and gas exploration with a portfolio of licenses in Namibia.  Robert is also a non-executive director of New Zealand Energy, Corp., a company providing gas, gas storage and liquids solutions to support the domestic energy economy and is also on the Board of Managers of Black Bayou Energy Hub, a private company developing a gas storage opportunity on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. Prior to joining Charlestown, Robert spent 17 years in the Investment Banking Group at Scotiabank, latterly as Managing Director and Industry Head, Global Power & Utilities.