Timothy S. Jones is Chairman and a Non-Executive Director of Xcite Energy Ltd ("XEL") and also chairs the Audit Committee. He is a Chartered Accountant, with twenty years’ experience in professional practice covering a number of industries including oil and gas. Following major public company roles, he formed his own accountancy and consulting practice to focus on the oil and gas sector, where he specialises in providing advice to AIM listed companies.
Gregory J. Moroney is a Non-Executive Director of Xcite Energy Ltd ("XEL") and chairs the Remuneration and Nominating Committee. Greg is the Founding and Managing Member of Energy Capital Advisors LLC of Greenwich, Connecticut, which he founded in 2003 to assist independent energy companies and energy fund managers in North America in their fund-raising activities. Greg is also a director of BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P., an oil and gas limited partnership listed on NASDAQ. From 1993 to 2002, he was head of the Structured Finance Group for the Energy and Natural Resource Sector – Western Hemisphere at Deutsche Bank Securities in New York. Greg has over 25 years of experience as an energy finance specialist.
Scott R. Cochlan is a Non-Executive Director of Xcite Energy Ltd ("XEL") and is a member of the Remuneration and Nominating Committee. Mr. Cochlan is a partner at the law firm of Torys LLP in the Corporate and Capital Markets group. Mr. Cochlan has represented senior and junior public issuers in numerous aspects of general corporate law and securities regulatory matters including corporate governance, continuous disclosure, regulatory compliance and transaction negotiation and completion. Mr. Cochlan also has extensive experience in representing both issuers and underwriters in a wide variety of complex private and public financing matters (equity and debt), including cross-border financings, mergers, acquisitions and other business reorganizations and restructurings. Mr. Cochlan holds a law degree from the University of Calgary and a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. Mr. Cochlan has received a number of recognitions as a leading lawyer in his field.
Henry ("Harry") Wilson is a Non-Executive Director of Xcite Energy Ltd. He has over 35 years’ international experience in upstream oil and gas, initially as an explorer and latterly in corporate finance with British Petroleum. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of a number of independent oil businesses and has led listings for several companies. He has been a director of public companies both in the UK and abroad across a number of sectors. Harry graduated with a BSc Hons in Physics from Manchester University and attended the Insead Business School in France.
Rupert E. Cole is Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of Xcite. From 2002 until joining Xcite Energy Resources ("XER") in 2003, Rupert was Programme Management Business Adviser at Granherne, a company within the Halliburton Group of companies, providing strategic, commercial and financial advice to upstream oil and gas services providers. From 1990 to 1996, Rupert was Finance Director at Harpur, an international downstream service provider to major oil companies. Rupert is a Chartered Accountant and has over 23 years of experience in corporate finance.
Stephen A. Kew is Chief Operating Officer and an Executive Director of Xcite. Stephen is a Petroleum Engineer and has over 37 years of development engineering and project management experience in the oil and gas industry, including 25 years with Conoco and previous experience in respect of the Bentley field, Block 9/3b. He is an associate of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a Former President of the Scottish Oil Club.
Andrew is Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Director of Xcite. Andrew joined Xcite Energy as Director of Corporate Affairs in August 2012 and has over 17 years of investment banking experience, both in corporate broking and corporate finance. Having left the Army in 1995, Andrew joined Flemings' corporate finance department, working both in London and New York, and subsequently moved to Rothschild on his return to the UK, where he advised on a wide range of private equity transactions. In 2004, Andrew joined the corporate broking team at Merrill Lynch, where he advised a diverse range of mid and large cap clients, across a wide range of equity related transactions and events. On leaving Merrill Lynch in 2009, Andrew has focused on the mid cap advisory arena, latterly with Espirito Santo Investment Bank.