Michael Blaha
CEO
Michael Blaha is a petroleum engineer with 35+ years of oil and gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
He is the co-founder and former Executive Chairman of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy...
Michael Nolan
CFO
Michael Nolan is a chartered accountant and has worked in the natural resource industry for 20+ years.
He is the former Finance Director of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy company PTT.
From 1999 to 2007, Mr...
Alexander Mollinger
COO
Alexander Mollinger is a petroleum engineer with 20 years of upstream oil & gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America; in both public and private equity backed companies.
He was the commercial advisor to the Executive Chairman and CEO of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through a monthslong...
Joseph English
Subsurface Director
Joseph English is a petroleum geoscientist with 15+ years of oil and gas experience in Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.
He is the former Chief Geologist of Petroceltic International, and prior to that he worked on various exploration projects with Nexen and EnCana.
Joseph English received a Bachelor...
Paul Griggs
Corporate Development Director
Paul Griggs has 30+ years of oil and gas experience.
He is the former advisor to the Board of Directors of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy company PTT.
He has held senior positions at Taipan Resources,...
Desmond Crichton
General Counsel
Desmond Crichton is a transactional lawyer with 30+ years of oil & gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and Australia. From 2003 to 2015, he worked at Shell. Prior to that, Mr Crichton worked for 20+ years in legal, commercial and management roles at BHP Petroleum, Hamilton Brothers,...
Robert Whelan
Financial Controller & Company Secretary
Robert Whelan is a Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of finance experience. Previously, he was the Financial Controller of Cove Energy from 2010 to 2012. He has extensive experience in both practice and Industry finance roles including roles with Citco Fund Services, Aventas Group, AIB, Coca Cola and Frank Lynch...
Michael Blaha
CEO
Michael Blaha is a petroleum engineer with 35+ years of oil and gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
He is the co-founder and former Executive Chairman of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy...
Michael Nolan
CFO
Michael Nolan is a chartered accountant and has worked in the natural resource industry for 20+ years.
He is the former Finance Director of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy company PTT.
From 1999 to 2007, Mr...
Alexander Mollinger
COO
Alexander Mollinger is a petroleum engineer with 20 years of upstream oil & gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America; in both public and private equity backed companies.
He was the commercial advisor to the Executive Chairman and CEO of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through a monthslong...
Joseph English
Subsurface Director
Joseph English is a petroleum geoscientist with 15+ years of oil and gas experience in Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East.
He is the former Chief Geologist of Petroceltic International, and prior to that he worked on various exploration projects with Nexen and EnCana.
Joseph English received a Bachelor...
Paul Griggs
Corporate Development Director
Paul Griggs has 30+ years of oil and gas experience.
He is the former advisor to the Board of Directors of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy company PTT.
He has held senior positions at Taipan Resources,...
Desmond Crichton
General Counsel
Desmond Crichton is a transactional lawyer with 30+ years of oil & gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and Australia. From 2003 to 2015, he worked at Shell. Prior to that, Mr Crichton worked for 20+ years in legal, commercial and management roles at BHP Petroleum, Hamilton Brothers,...
Robert Whelan
Financial Controller & Company Secretary
Robert Whelan is a Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of finance experience. Previously, he was the Financial Controller of Cove Energy from 2010 to 2012. He has extensive experience in both practice and Industry finance roles including roles with Citco Fund Services, Aventas Group, AIB, Coca Cola and Frank Lynch...
Jake Ulrich
Chairman
Since getting his B.S. Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Chicago, Mr Ulrich has accumulated 35+ years of engineering experience in the energy industry, working in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has been on numerous boards, including Sterling Resources as CEO,...
Michael Blaha
CEO
Michael Blaha is a petroleum engineer with 35+ years of oil and gas experience in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
He is the co-founder and former Executive Chairman of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy...
Michael Nolan
CFO
Michael Nolan is a chartered accountant and has worked in the natural resource industry for 20+ years.
He is the former Finance Director of Cove Energy, where he guided the company through its £1.2 billion (US$1.9 billion) sale to Thailand's national energy company PTT.
From 1999 to 2007, Mr...
Marcel van Poecke
Non-Executive Director
Having more than 25 years of experience in the energy sector, Marcel van Poecke is primarily an entrepreneur, investor and executive manager. He is Chairman of AtlasInvest, a private holding company he founded in 2007. AtlasInvest is engaged in investments across the broad energy spectrum.
Marcel van Poecke is a...
Paddy Spink
Non-Executive Director
Paddy Spink is a senior advisor to Atlas Invest and served the board of Oranje-Nassau Energie over a 10 year period. He is the operations executive for Carlyle International Energy Partners. Paddy was non-executive director of Ophir Energy and was an executive committee member of Perenco. He has over 40 years of oil...
Heather Mitchell
Non-Executive Director
Heather Mitchell is a Partner, Managing Director and global General Counsel for Investments at The Carlyle Group. Ms. Mitchell is head of Carlyle’s EMEA region and a member of the executive Risk Management Committee. She is based in London.
In October 2019, and again in 2020, Ms. Mitchell was named...
Alexander Berger
Non-Executive Director
Alexander Berger is a petroleum engineer with 25 years of oil and gas experience in senior roles with Shell and Dyas, followed by 10 years as CEO of Oranje-Nassau Energie, and also served as non-executive director for Cairn Energy.