Board of Directors
Full Resumes of the qualifications of the Directors can be obtained from the Company
- David Charles Griffiths
David Griffiths has over 25 years experience in senior financial executive roles in a wide range of industries. Until June 2005 David was a Division Director of Macquarie Bank, a position he held since March 1999 when Macquarie Bank acquired Perth stockbroker Porter Western, where he was Executive Chairman.
He is Chairman of Great Southern Limited (Director since July 2005) and current Non-Executive Director of Advanced Nanotechnology Limited (Chairman since December 2003 to April 2008). He is also a Director of Think Smart Limited and Automotive Holdings Group Limited and was appointed Pro-Chancellor of the University of Western Australia in November 2006. He is also Chairman of its Strategic Resources Committee and sits on the Board of the Perth International Arts Festival.
David was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Company on 8 July 2005. He is a member of the Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee.
- Emma Rachel Stein
Emma Stein has prior executive utilities experience in energy retailing, asset and stakeholder management(including regulators, consumer watchdogs and governments), international business operations, strategy development and implementation, acquisitions and divestments.
Her other directorships are as a Non-Executive Director of Diversified Energy and Utility Trusts ("DUET"), Integral Energy and the NSW Growth Centres Commission. She is also a member of the University of Western Sydney Strategy and Resources Board Committee. She is the NSW President for the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and an Ambassador for the Guides.
She was formerly UK Managing Director of Gaz de France Energy, a UK Non-Executive Director for Cofathec Heatsave and UK Divisional Managing Director for British Fuels and was a Non-Executive Director of Merlin Petroleum Limited, an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company.
Emma was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 April 2005. She is Chair of the Audit Committee and a Member of the Remuneration Committee.
- Eric Charles Streitberg
Eric Streitberg has over 30 years experience in petroleum geology and geophysics, petroleum exploration and production company management. He is a Fellow of the AusIMM and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of the SEG, PESA and the AAPG, a Certified Petroleum Geologist of the AAPG, a former member and Vice Chairman of the APPEA Council, and Chairman of the Marine Parks and Reserves Authority of Western Australia.
His other listed company directorship is as Non-Executive Director of Adelphi Energy Limited ("Adelphi") since January 2005.
Eric was appointed Managing Director of the Company on 1 July 1997.
- Gary Jeffery
Gary Jeffery has over thirty years of experience in the oil, gas and mining industries working for both large and small organisations in over thirty countries worldwide. He has over twenty years of geological and geophysical mapping and exploration management experience.
He was most recently Tap Oil Limited's General Manager. Previously he worked for Griffin Energy as Executive General Manager Business Development with responsibility for promoting the Griffin Energy Enterprise and held senior management positions at Normandy Mining (now Newmont Mining), Hadson Energy (now Apache) and WAPET.
Gary is a member of the Australian Institute of Energy and the Industry Advisory Board of the School of Oil and Gas Engineering at UWA, and was a member of the Business Council of Australia Energy Working Group and the WA Greenhouse Council Energy Supply & Use Technical Panel and other industry advisory groups.
