About ChariotBoard of Directors

 Adonis is also Chairman of Petra Diamonds Ltd., a pan-African diamond mining company which he founded and listed on London’s AIM market in 1997 and which moved to the Main Market in 2011. Petra is now South Africa's second largest independent diamond producers. He has been influential in the listing of a number of other companies onto AIM and has been instrumental in structuring and raising funds to help finance early stage exploration and mining projects across Africa.

 He held a wide variety of engineering, management and business development positions throughout Shell’s global operations across all of its core regions of exploration, development and production. At Hunt Oil, Paul evaluated exploration and production opportunities across its international asset portfolio and more recently he worked in Northern Africa with Pioneer, responsible for producing assets in Tunisia. Paul was instrumental in significantly increasing the production profile and overseeing new business development in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Egypt and Iraq.

 Prior to Everett Financial Management Limited, James worked with Hoare Govett which is now part of RBS. He is a Non-Executive Director of a number of resource companies.

 Heindrich has played a unique role within the development of Namibia’s mining and energy strategies, including acting as National Energy Council Secretary and World Energy Council Representative for the Namibian Ministry of Mines and Energy. Heindrich was one of the founding shareholders of Enigma, which is now a 100 per cent subsidiary of Chariot.

 Robert is Chairman of Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited, a Director of ING UK Real Estate Income Trust Limited and Chairman of its Audit Committee. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is resident in Guernsey. Robert represents the interests of Westward, a major shareholder of Chariot.

 He subsequently worked for Royal Dutch/Shell Oil for 17 years, followed by Carrizo Oil & Gas as Vice President of Exploration and Development and more recently he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Davis Petroleum Corporation. His career has spanned a broad spectrum of the E & P sector involving all petroleum engineering and exploration disciplines as well as a variety of corporate activity. His expertise lies in deal structuring, portfolio development, risk analysis, and strategic modelling in addition to being the operational catalyst for bringing successful projects to first production.

 Philip began his career as a geophysicist in 1983 and throughout his career has evaluated numerous opportunities across the globe. He has a wealth of experience in Africa, having made discoveries in Tunisia, Algeria and Equatorial Guinea. Prior to Mubadala, Philip worked for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for over 10 years, latterly as Vice President of International Exploration where he oversaw exploration related activities in a variety of international provinces. Philip holds a B.Sc Hons in Geology from the University of Manchester, an M.Sc D I C in Petroleum Geology (Geophysics) from Imperial College, University of London and an MBA from Henley Management College.

 Larry has worked across a broad spectrum of exploratory and business development roles worldwide, in senior management roles with Perenco SA, Hunt Oil, Triton Energy and BP. He has a strong background in integrated geosciences, team management and relationship building and a key aspect of his work has been in the creation, development and delivery of significant drilling programmes that have led to the discovery and development of giant oil fields.