Mr Jeremy D Shervington
Non Executive Chairman
B.Juris, LLB
Mr Shervington operates a legal practice in Western Australia. He specialises in the laws regulating companies and the securities industry in Australia. Mr Shervington has almost 25 years experience as a lawyer, gained since his admission as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Mr Shervington has since 1985 served as a director of various ASX listed companies as well as a number of unlisted public and private companies. Mr Shervington is currently also a director of the following ASX listed companies: Australian Zircon NL, Prairie Downs Metals Limited, Colonial Resources Limited, Industrial Minerals Corporation Limited, Altera Resources Limited and Western Uranium Limited.
Mr John Hannaford
Executive Director - Finance
BCom (UWA), C.A., F.Fin.
Mr Hannaford is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has worked in various corporate roles within the resources sector in Australia, Asia and Europe. He has been involved with a wide range of companies including listed oil and gas explorer and producers, oilfield construction groups and various gold and mineral exploration companies. In 2004, Mr Hannaford established Ventnor Capital, to provide specialist corporate advice to companies within the resources industries. Prior to establishing Ventnor Capital, Mr Hannaford provided various administrative, corporate and strategic financial advices to resource companies and was a Company Secretary or Financial Controller for many of these companies. Mr Hannaford is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. Mr Hannaford is currently also a director of Neuro Discovery Limited, Bathurst Resources Limited and Atlantic Limited.
Mr Robert Berven
Executive Director - Technical
BEng (Geol), MSc (Geol), Saskatchewan
Mr Berven is a professional Geologist, originally from Canada, who has over 40 years experience in the petroleum and mining industries in North America and Australasia. He originally worked in Australia with Marathon Petroleum Corporation from 1966-1969. He worked as a petroleum consultant in Indonesia then joined Trend Exploration in Indonesia and USA from 1977-1981. He was then involved from 1981-1986 with various projects including, Prospect Petroleum, based in Denver Colorado, which commenced oil production from the Illinois Basin and grew to a staff of 40 before being acquired. Mr Berven returned to Perth in 1986 to form Eldorado Resources NL, which was acquired by Croesus Mining NL and is now a subsidiary of Croesus. He has also worked within the Business Development and Marketing team of World Geoscience Corporation Pty Ltd (now Fugro Surveys Ltd). He was founder of Flare Petroleum NL which was acquired by Daytona Energy Corporation in 1999.
Mr Berven is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr Berven was a Director of Croesus Mining NL until 2004 and was until two and a half years ago a Director of Daytona Energy Corp., a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada.
Mr Dick Cooper
Technical Consultant
BSc (Hons), Adelaide, Postgrad. Diploma in Geology, French Petroleum Institute, Paris, 1963
Mr Cooper has over 40 years experience in the oil and gas industry. He is now a practising geosciences consultant in Perth, having spent 22 years in senior geosciences staff positions with the French major oil company, Total, in Australia, Indonesia, the UK North Sea, and the USA Gulf Coast. In 1980, Mr Cooper was promoted to the position of Exploration Manager
over Ireland. Since 1985, Mr Cooper has undertaken various geophysical and managerial contract works in Australia and Indonesia on behalf of Total, Marathon Oil Corporation, Bond Energy & Minerals, Petroz NL, and Coastal/El Paso Energy Corporation. The focus of the majority of his assignments has been the identification and assessment of new-venture opportunities within the oil and gas industry. Mr Cooper is Technical Director of Emerald Gas Pty Ltd and is involved in technical oversight of operations and exploration activities, on a consultancy basis for Emerald Oil & Gas NL.
Mr Morgan Barron
Company Secretary
BCom (UWA), C.A., Grad Dip Applied Finance & Investment
Morgan is a qualified Chartered Accountant who has worked in various corporate roles both in Australia and Europe. Prior to joining Ventnor Capital, Morgan was a Financial Analyst (M+A) at MacMahon Holdings Ltd providing strategic advice, recommendations and execution of a number of key acquisitions in the Mining and Civil Contracting markets. Morgan was also involved in a number of strategic projects including the October 2005 MacMahon capital raising of $56m.
Morgan holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia, and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. After graduating from UWA he started his career at Horwath and then KPMG. Once qualified he made the move to London where he gained experience in Banking and European acquisitions for a US listed Investment bank, providing him with a strong commercial, financial and management background.