Directors

Kamran Ahmed
Acting Managing Director
Kamran Ahmed is a graduate of Ithaca College, Cornel University, with 28 years’ experience in banking and oil and gas. He has worked with multinational financial institutions and oil and gas companies, including Shell, Mobil, Bankers Equity and Merrill Lynch.  In 2002 he joined Orient Petroleum International Inc (OPII) and is now based in the UK as Director of Orient Petroleum (UK) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OPII.
Mr Ahmed the Chairman of the Company's Audit Committee.

Arif Kemal BSc (Hons), MSc, FPAGS
Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Arif Kemal has over 46 years’ experience in exploration, production and management of oil and gas resources. He has a B.Sc. Hons in Geology and an M.Sc. Petroleum Geology and attended a post-graduate training course in Petroleum Engineering from the Institut Français du Pétrole, France.  Mr Kemal is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Houston Geological Society.
Mr Kemal is a member of the Company's Remuneration Committee.

Mr Antony Brian Baldry MP
Deputy Chairman, Non-Executive Director
Tony Baldry is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Banbury (North Oxfordshire). He has been an MP for over 25 years and held various ministerial posts between 1990 and 1997. These include Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Energy where, alongside John Wakeham, he oversaw the privatisation of the UK electricity industry. 
A practising Barrister, Tony is also a director of a number of public and private companies. Tony has a wealth of experience of giving strategic and financial advice to growing companies across a range of sectors, including natural resources.
Mr Baldry is a member of the Company's Audit Committee.

Hasan Ali Hashwani
Non-Executive Director
Hasan Hashwani has over 12 years’ international experience in the oil and gas industry. He has held various management positions and is currently a director and President of Orient Petroleum International Inc and serves on the board of several other private companies. Mr Hashwani studied business administration at the University of Phoenix and attended business and management courses at Columbia and Rice Universities in the US, as well as the Young Managers Programme at INSEAD, France.
Mr Hashwani is the Chairman of the Company's Remuneration Committee.

Rustom Bejon Kanga FCA
Non-Executive Director

Rustom Kanga has over 27 years’ diverse experience in business and commerce. He has been involved in the upstream oil and gas industry since 1996 and has valuable experience in starting new ventures, acquisitions, divestitures and financing.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and serves on the board of several private companies.

Mr Kanga is a member of the Company's Remuneration Committee and its Audit Committee.