Bruce I. Raben is a Founding Partner at Beverly Hills based Hudson Capital Advisors, LLC. He has been head of the CIBC Capital Markets energy lending practice in the U.S., and established the energy group at Jefferies and Company. Bruce started his banking career at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Bruce sits on the Board of EMAK Worldwide Inc., Optical Security Group, and previously served on the Boards of Evercom Inc, Andes Gold Corporation, and was both Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a Member of Audit Committee at Penn Octane Corp. He has also served on the Boards of Central Energy Partners, L.P. and Rio Vista GP LLC.
Bruce did a Masters of Business Administration at Columbia Business School, and a Bachelor of Economics at Vassar College. Bruce is involved in a cross section of charities in the Los Angeles area.
Dr Gabrielle Morrissey is a long standing lecturer for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). She has travelled the world lecturing YPO members on the importance of “Balance in the Board Room”. She has hosted a syndicated radio show with Australia’s Southern Cross’ national radio network, and is a syndicated columnist for News Ltd, APN, and MSN. She has acted in Australia as consultant or company spokesperson for companies ranging from eHarmony, to Johnson & Johnson. She has been both a Lecturer and an Assistant Professor at Curtin and Bond Universities. Dr Morrissey currently works at the University of Queensland’s School of Medicine.
Dr Morrissey did her Doctorate of Philosophy in Health Science at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. She also holds a Masters of Education Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of a number of governance bodies in Australia.
Michael Atkins is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and was a founding partner of a national Chartered Accounting practice from 1979 to 1987. Since 1987 he has been involved in the executive management of several publicly listed resource companies with operations in Australia, USA, South East Asia, and Africa.
Michael was Managing Director of Claremont Petroleum NL and Beach Petroleum NL during their reconstruction in 1990 and 1991. He continued as a Non-Executive Director until 1995. He was also founding Executive Chairman of Gallery Gold NL in 1998, and remained a Non-Executive Director until 2000. He is currently the Chairman of ASX listed Legend Mining, and Director of Corporate Finance at Patersons Securities.
Alan Stevenson is a Senior Consultant with TMT Partners. He has over 21 years investment banking experience and has been involved in M&A and capital markets transactions with a value in excess of $8 billion. Alan gained his investment banking experience at firms including: HSBC Investment Bank, PwC Corporate Finance, Commonwealth Bank Equities, and Wilson HTM Group.
Alan’s transaction experience includes advising AGL’s syndicate on the acquisition of the Loy Yang A power generation assets for $3.5 billion; advising Commonwealth Bank on the sale of its stake in TransACT; advising Combined Communications on its merger with Cabcharge Australia, valued at $440 million; advising GEC plc on the sale of its Australian operations for $250million. Alan has also done private equity raisings for APV Group, Bullant Technologies, Syrinx Speech Systems and Thakral Group. He has worked on the IPO’s of Cabcharge Australia, Combined Communications, Tigers Realm Coal, and Savcor Group.
Alan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Natal (South Africa). He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and holds the designation Chartered Accountant in South Africa.
Chris Indermaur, although retired, serves on the board of Poseidon Nickel. Chris also has advisory roles with Top-Drive Drillers and with Credo Services. He has over 30 years of experience in large Australian companies in Engineering or Commercial roles. Amongst these roles he was the Engineering and Contracts Manager for the QNI Nickel Refinery at Yabulu, Company Secretary for QAL, and General Manager of Strategy and Development at Alinta Energy Limited until its sale in 2007 to Babcock & Brown for $14billion.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) and a Graduate Diploma of Engineering (Chemical) from the West Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). Chris also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice from Australian National University.
Dr Steve Hall spent nearly 20 years as a senior geologist and geoscience advisor to BP. He developed structural models for the Neptune trend, which are now used as the standard. Steve was instrumental in the predictive studies that resulted in the discovery of the billion-barrel Thunder Horse Field, and the 300 million-barrel Troika field. Steve spent 4 years in charge of geology for Woodside’s international developments, and has advised to CNOOC and Carigali Hess. Steve has recently been senior geological advisor to Talisman International, and instrumental to Talisman’s success in PNG.
Steve has a Doctorate in Structural and Basin Evolution from London University, and a first class honours degree in petroleum geology from Leeds University.
Greg Poleman has more than 30 years of experience as a petroleum engineer in charge of drilling and enhanced recovery both in the US and overseas. Greg started his career with Palmer Petroleum in Leon County, Texas. His professional career has been spent with Baker Hughes Inteq, ExxonMobil and Hess. Greg was in charge of drilling for Hess in their Bakken shale program. Greg has recently been in charge of drilling and workovers for the Amromco-First Reserve partnership in Eastern Europe.
Greg has a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, and is certified in directional drilling, horizontal drilling, and fracking. He is also certified in a host of contemporary drilling and recovery technologies.
