Richard Gazal, Chairman
Mr Gazal is executive director of 3C Capital, until late 2016 Richard was also executive director the Gazal Corporation a post he held for over 15 years.
Ric Malcom, Non-Executive DirectorMr Malcolm is a professional geoscientist with 34 years of varied oil and gas experience within seven international markets. He began his career as a Petroleum Geologist with Woodside Petroleum in Perth exploring for oil and gas on the Northwest Shelf. He spent ten years with Ampolex Limited (Perth and Sydney) as a Senior Explorationist and then Exploration Manager in Western Australia and Asset Manager in Northern & Eastern Australia. Following Mobil’s takeover of Ampolex, Mr Malcolm was appointed manager of Mobil’s assets in Papua New Guinea. Three years later he joined OMV, initially as Exploration Manager for Australia & New Zealand and later as Exploration & Reservoir Manager for OMV Libya, General Manager Norway and in 2006, Managing Director of OMV UK. Between 2008 and 2013, Mr Malcolm was CEO of Gulfsands Petroleum plc, an AIM listed production, exploration and development company with operations in Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, USA and Colombia. He is currently a Non-executive Director of Pura Vida Energy NL.
Jon Adgemis, Director
Mr Adgemis is a Partner at KPMG with over 16 years experience specialising in Mergers and Acquisitions across as range of sectors. He is currently National Head of Mergers and Acquisitions division which is a global market leader in advising clients in the mid market deal space.
Prior to KPMG Jon was at Gresham Partners, a corporate advisory and funds management group. Outside of KPMG, he has entrepreneurial interests currently spanning technology, property, film and mining. Jon is a Director at Eastern Property Group, with an extensive commercial property portfolio and a shareholder of Larus Energy.
Joe Holloway, DirectorMr Holloway is a prominent businessman and managing director of a number of companies consisting of hotels, retail, property development and manufacturing in PNG, he is also a director of National Finance PNG and PNG Ports Limited.
Joe has strong ties to the PNG business community plus access to government networks and will play a key role in representing Larus in country.
Alaister Shakerley, Exploration Manager
Alaister is a petroleum geoscientist by background with 17-years of global professional experience, including both exploration & production with: Eni, DNO, Maersk Oil, Total & Structural Geoscience Services.Alaister has technical expertise with interpretation in geologically complex areas & structural geological analysis. He is experienced in both clastic & carbonate systems; and with numerous petroliferous fold and thrust belts & rifted margins worldwide.
Between 2017 & 2020 Alaister worked on PNG Exploration & New Ventures at Total. He possesses in-depth knowledge of the offshore Papuan Plateau, Gulf of Papua and the onshore Aure - Port Moresby fold and thrust belts.
Matthew Azar, Company SecretaryMr Azar has been in business and company secretarial consulting for several years and prior to that operated a successful business for 7 years following 10 years in management at the Australian Jockey Club.
