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Heinz Juergen Klaus Scholz, Chairman
Mr. Heinz Juergen Klaus Scholz is a Physicist and Engineer. In the 1980s Mr. Scholz built factories and telecommunication networks in the Former Soviet Union. After the German Reunification he also advised Soviet Ministries regarding the negotiations on the sale of Russia's East German telecommunication network to Deutsche Telecom. He has worked in collaboration with scientific institutes in the Russian Federation. Mr. Scholz plays a critical role in targeting, appraising and subsequently acquiring the rights to major oil and gas assets in the Former Soviet Union and its satellite countries. |
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Alexander Becker, Director, New Ventures
Mr. Alexander Becker is a PhD Geologist specializing in structural geology and tectonophysics in Central Asia. Mr. Becker was an Exploration Geologist in Central Asia during the 1980s when the Soviets named him the best mapping geologist in the Kyrgyz Republic. As a researcher in the 1990s at Ben Gurion University in Israel, he received the coveted Peres Greder award. Mr. Becker has been instrumental in two oil field discoveries (Charvak and Ashvaz fields) and one gold discovery. Mr. Becker plays a critical role in the targeting, assessment, and later the exploration and development of oil concessions. |
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Neil Herman Maedel, Director, Business Development
Neil Herman Maedel is a Nassau, Bahamas based international financier. During the 1990s he was the editor of a Switzerland based financial publication which was better known for its analysis of resource projects in Russia, South America, Africa and the US. Mr. Maedel worked as a professional stock trader and researcher in Canada during the 1980s and has assisted in financing of oil and gas companies for the past two decades. |
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Michael J. Velletta, Director, Legal Counsel
Mr. Velletta was called to the Bar of British Columbia,Canada in 1990 and presented to the Supreme Court as a Barrister and Solicitor that same year. Mr. Velletta's private practice with the law firm of Velletta & Company, focuses on corporate and commercial law, and commercial litigation. He is a Governor of the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, and is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, Association of international Petroleum Negotiators and the International Institute of Business Advisors. Mr. Velletta serves on the Board of Directors of several corporations and is a Governor of the University Canada West Foundation |
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Peter-Mark Vogel, Financial Advisor to the board
Mr. Peter-Mark Vogel is an MBA (University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business). He began as a Regulatory Analyst for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and was later a Senior Research Analyst for a number of Zurich based private banks. Mr Vogel's last position was at Bank Sal. Oppenheim Zurich as Senior Financial Analyst. He is a member of the Swiss CFA institute. Mr. Vogel plays a key role in the planning and administration of the company's legal and corporate affairs. |
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Thomas Flottmann, PHD, Technical Advisor to the Board
Mr. Thomas Flottmann is a PhD structural geologist. He was
principal structural advisor to CRA (now RioTinto) from 1994-1997
working on oil and gas as well as mineral exploration. Most recently,
Mr. Flottmann was the senior staff geoscientist and specialist advisor
across all business units for Santos. Mr. Flottmann has worked in oil and gas exploration and development in Australia, Egypt, Central Asia, Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Gulf of Mexico and in Iran.
A significant part of his work has focussed on the characterisation of
fractured and fracture-enhanced gas and oil reservoirs. |
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Chris Pitman, Geological Advisor to the Board
London-based Mr. Pitman is a Petroleum Geologist with extensive experience in exploration, reserves analysis and reporting. He is the Managing Director of Energy Advisors Limited and is an advisor to BNP Paribas (Paris), the Abu Dhabi Investment Company and Mohamed Al Fayad (Harrods). He was a Director, Business Development for Schlumberger Geoquest and an Expert Advisor to the World Bank. Mr. Pitman's mandate is to assist in the appraisal of targeted oil and gas concessions. |
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Erik Herlyn, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Erik Herlyn is mechanical and production engineer (Trinity University Dublin, University of Bremen). Erik Herlyn has extensive experience in the finance and hydrocarbon industries. He was in several managerial positions from large International Business Consulting firms such as KPMG, BearingPoint and Capgemini. His specialization lies in a process optimization method which he developed over many years using synergies from different industries. Mr. Herlyn was supporting major oil companies in the Americas and Arabic countries in strategic, technical and financial projects. Switzerland based Erik Herlyn plays a key role in managing the global office operations of Manas as well as acquisition of licenses. |
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Yaruslav Bandurak, Chief Technical Officer
Yaruslav Bandurak received his Geological degree from Ukraine's Lvov State University in 1995 where he subsequently served as a member of the Geology Faculty from 1989 to 1995. Mr. Bandurak was later leading the geological activities for several Central Asian oil and gas companies from 2000 to 2005 and was a senior geologist of South Kyrgyz Geological Expedition from1995 to 2000. Mr. Bandurak is responsible for Manas prospect developments, Exploration activities and acquisition of new projects. |
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Ari Muljana, Senior Finance Manager
Mr. Ari Muljana is a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Zurich and specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Financial Statement Analysis. He began his career in the Risk Management department at Deloitte, where he was engaged in a variety of mandates within the oil and commodity trading industry. During the three years prior to Manas' employment he worked at Capgemini as strategic consultant, focusing on controlling and performance measurement topics. |
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Boris Goldinstein, Director, Central Asia
Mr. Boris Goldinstein is a civil engineer with with extensive Central Asian expertise as a consequence of his work as the Deputy Director of the consortium "Kazgeophizika and in the USR Ministry of Geology as the former deputy Chief of
"Glayprikaspiygeologiya, a 40.000 employee organization for oil and gas exploration in in the Precaspian depression of Russia and Kazakhstan.
The central directorate included five geological associations, two research institutions and two geo exploration technical schools. |
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Vilson Bare, Geophysicist
Professor Vilson Bare is a geophysicist and seismic exploration expert. He received international attendance in the 80's for his research work in the area of "diffraction in seismic section and its uses in geological interpretation". Mr. Bare had several assignments for National and International Petroleum Corporations including Coparex and Shell, where he realized studies for the Albanian blocks 2, 3 and 5. Mr. Bare held senior positions within the Albanian National Petroleum Agency (NPA later AKBN, National Agency of Natural Resources) including the head of Directory for Auditing and Supervising of Petroleum activities of National and International companies. He supervised seismic work and audited all contracts and activities between the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy and International Petroleum companies. |
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Arben Arapi, Petroleum Geologist
Arben Arapi is a Petroleum Geologist engineer. He was engaged most of his career for the National Petroleum Agency(NPA, later AKBN, National Agency of Natural Resources) in Albania in managerial and technical positions. Mr. Arapi was closely working together with Occidental, OMV, INA Naftaplin and Coparex in developing contracts signed with the Albanian Government for oil and gas exploration and development in Albania. On the technical side, Mr. Arapi was supervising and implementing more than 30 projects during drilling and testing of oil and gas exploration and evaluation wells within the Peri Adriatic Depression and Ionian Zone in Albania. |
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Agim Mesonjesi, Petroleum Geologist
Agim Mesonjesi has over twenty-five years of oil and gas industry experience in all phases of exploration. He was 7 years working as a geologist and geological advisor for Occidental Petroleum Albania. Mr.Mesonjesi was performing geological work including the generation of a number of geological and geophysical studies for the Albanian Institute for Oil and Gas. Mr. Mesonjesi is a general geologist and proved expert in prospect generation employing advanced field mapping techniques. |
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Ricardo Fuenzalida Ponce, General Manager, South America
Geologist by education in Universidad de Chile, MSc., Stanford University, 43 years of experience of which 19 years in oil exploration & geophysics, 9 years in regional geology, 10 years in economic geology and 5 years in engineering geology. Wide experience in working with government and private organizations in Chile, North Africa, West Africa and Middle East. He was the General Manager of international new ventures for Sipetrol-Enap. Led Enap's participation with Apache and IPR in the El Diyal discovery in Egypt's Western Desert. Mr. Fuenzalida Ponce led the Magallanes precordillera exploration project that lead to the discovery of oil within the Jurassic grabens and he coordinate the evaluation of the remaining hydrocarbon potential of the Magallanes Basin for Sipetrol. |
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