Senior Management

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.

Gagan Khurana

Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Financial Officer

Gagan is a corporate adviser with over 20 years of experience in M&A, Corporate Finance, Origination and Executive Management, including over 10 years in the oil and gas industry in executive management, deal origination and advisory capacity. Gagan has been the Commercial Manager since May 2020 and assumed the role of Chief Commercial Officer from 1 February 2022. Prior to this Gagan was running his own consultancy from 2015 focusing on origination and advising clients on mergers & acquisitions and other corporate and commercial matters. He was previously VP – Corporate & Commercial at Dart Energy from 2010 to 2015. From 1999 – 2010 Gagan worked in corporate advisory role with PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an investment professional with prominent private equity firms.

He holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore and is a fellow member (FCCA) of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, and CA (Singapore).

Randy Hiscock

Business Development Director and Managing Director- Uruguay

Randolph (Randy) G. Hiscock has extensive global energy expertise with specific focus on Latin America & the Caribbean. Randy has a proven track record of discovering hydrocarbons, deal/acreage delivery and offshore exploration management in Guyana, Brazil and Atlantic Canada. He was Shell’s General Manager for the Americas New Venture and Business Development for approximately 10 years based in Houston. Before Shell, he was EnCana’s South American VP for Exploration.

Randy has a Master’s of Science (Geology) and an MBA in International Oil &Gas Studies from Memorial University in Canada and is a member of AAPG and PESGB.

Owen Baboolal

Operations Manager

Owen is the Company’s Operations Manager in Trinidad and Tobago responsible for overseeing all of Challenger’s field operations. Owen has more than 10 years of operations and project management within the Oil and Gas, and Civil Engineering Sector. Owen’s current role covers all operational disciplines in the oil & gas industry including HSSE, Drilling, ICP and Well Interventions. Previously, Owen has held roles such as Senior Rig Manager, Rig Coordinator, Logistics Lead, Operations Manager, Project Lead both onshore and offshore Trinidad and Suriname.

Vishan Beharry

Drilling & Completions Manager

Vishan Beharry is the Company’s Drilling & Completions in Trinidad & Tobago and has worked on the Company’s Trinidad and Suriname assets over the past 8 years. He has filled various roles in the company, to note including Operations Manager, Drilling Engineer and Acting Field Manager. Previously, he has worked as part of the team that drilled the first ever deviated well in Suriname and also worked as a directional driller offshore Trinidad drilling deviated side track wells using a slant mast rig.

Vishan holds a BSc degree in Physics and a Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering with over 13 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.

Benjamin Proffitt

Company Secretary

With a physics degree from Imperial College London, Ben Proffitt qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2007 with BDO, working in their audit team with a focus on AIM-listed resource clients.  In 2008 Ben joined Renewable Energy Holdings plc to manage their wave energy intellectual property development in Australia before joining BPC plc in 2010.