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John d'Abo, Independent Non-Executive Director

John d'Abo, 54, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 4 May 2022. He is also an independent board member of Moroxite Holding Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of the Group.

Mr John d'Abo has over 30 years of executive experience in global investment banks and associated businesses mainly in Southeast Asia, advising listed companies on fund raising in both equity and debt and corporate advisory, during which he established relationships with a wide array of companies and investors across multiple sectors. His investment banking career of 23 years includes stints at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets (Hong Kong), Royal Bank of Scotland (Hong Kong), Credit Suisse (Hong Kong), CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets (Hong Kong and New York) and HSBC James Capel (London). He is the founder and current Director of Erland Advisors Ltd.

D'Abo holds a Bachelor of Arts with joint honours in French and Spanish from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

Pong Chen Yih, Lead Independent Director

Mr Pong, 48, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 August 2023 and re-elected to the Board on 25 April 2024. He was redesignated as Lead Independent Director on 25 April 2024. Mr Pong has over 20 years of experience handling complex legal and financial advisory work in relation to domestic and international corporate finance and capital markets transactions. He is also an independent board member of Moroxite Holding Pte. Ltd., and Rex Technology Investments Pte. Ltd.; subsidiaries of the Group.

He has successfully listed over 45 companies on the Singapore Exchange. He is a Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Novus Corporate Finance Pte. Ltd., an accredited issue manager for the Singapore Exchange Mainboard listings and a Full Sponsor for Catalist. He is presently an independent director of HRnetGroup Limited, Figtree Holdings Limited and Grand Venture Technology Limited.

Mr Pong was previously the Head of the Singapore Domestic Capital Markets Group in Baker McKenzie and prior to that, a partner in the Equity Capital Markets Group in WongPartnership LLP. He regularly speaks at local and overseas conferences and seminars on topics such as capital raising and listing requirements.

Mr Pong holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.

Mae Heng, Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Mae Heng, 53, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 4 May 2022 and was re-elected to the Board on 28 April 2023.

Ms Heng has over 16 years of experience working at Ernst & Young Singapore. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Grand Venture Technology Limited, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited, HRnetGroup Limited and Ossia International Limited, and is chairperson or a member of these companies' various board committees. Ms Heng also holds directorships in her family-owned investment holding companies. She was also the former Audit Committee Chairman of an SGX-listed acquisition company, a real estate developer, an online travel company, as well as a Bursa-listed pharmaceutical company.

Ms Heng holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University. She is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and an ASEAN Chartered Professional Accountant.

Dr Mathias Lidgren, Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Dr Mathias Lidgren, 42, was appointed as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 4 May 2022 and was re-elected to the Board on 28 April 2023. He is also a board member of Moroxite Holding Pte. Ltd., and Moroxite T AB, both subsidiaries of the Group.

Dr Mathias Lidgren represents the interests of Limea Ltd., the controlling shareholder of the Company. He has been a practising medical doctor since 2013 and has worked for the National Health Service (NHS), United Kingdom, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genéve, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently practising at Skane University Hospitals in Lund, Sweden, and is also a post-doctoral researcher in the Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Department of Laboratory Medicine in Lund University, Sweden. Dr Lidgren currently holds directorships in Propatria AB, Rotationsplast i Munka-Ljung by AB, Caithness Fastighets AB, Forvaltningsaktiebolaget Maple, Trolleholms Slott AB, Captiosus AB and Strominnate Therapeutics AB; companies in Sweden involved in a range of businesses including real estate, manufacturing and medicine. He is also Chief Medical Officer of Moroxite T AB.

Dr Lidgren holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Economics from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, a Master of Arts in Genetics, as well as a medical degree (MB BChir) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the International University of Monaco. His medical degree is recognised by the Commission des professions médicales, Switzerland and Socialstyrelsen, Sweden. He is licensed to practice medicine in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland and in Sweden. He is also a board-certified specialist in clinical genetics in Sweden.

Beverley Smith, Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Beverley Smith, 58, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 August 2023 and re-elected to the Board on 25 April 2024. She is a professional geologist with more than 30 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry. She currently holds positions as a Non-Executive Director and chairperson of the HSSE (Health, Safety, Security & Environment) sub-committee and a member of the Reserves, Compensation and Governance sub-committees for the AIM-listed and TSX-listed Touchstone Exploration Inc. She is also an independent Board member of Lime Petroleum AS, a subsidiary of the Group.

Prior to these, Ms Smith was a Non-Executive Director of AIM-listed Hurricane Energy Plc and filled in as the interim Chief Executive Officer for three months. Ms Smith was also a 26-year career veteran with the BG Group Plc, where her last held position was Vice President of Exploration and Growth (Europe), after stints in BG Nigeria, BG Algeria and BG China.

Ms Smith holds a Master of Science in Petroleum Geology from the University of London, United Kingdom (UK) and a Bachelor of Science in Geology (Honours) from the University of Exeter, UK. She is a Fellow, Chartered Geologist of the Geological Society of London, and served as President of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB) (now known as the Geoscience Energy Society of Great Britain (GESGB)) from 2019 to 2022. She had also voluntarily served as a Director of POWERful Women, a professional initiative that seeks to advance the leadership and development of senior women across the UK’s energy sector, and as a Trustee of the Etches Collection, a unique and valuable collection of fossils from the Jurassic Sea. She was also Chair of the Board of Trustees of the non-government funded INPUT Diabetes Charity for five years.

Måns Lidgren, Chief Executive Officer

Mr Måns Lidgren is the Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for overseeing the strategic positioning and business expansion of the Group, including making major business and finance decisions.

Prior to joining the Company in January 2013, Mr Lidgren was interim chief executive officer and director of Lime Petroleum Plc from August 2011 to December 2012 and chief financial officer of his family's business from August 2009 to August 2011. He has seven years of experience in financial structuring, mergers & acquisitions, investments and business development. From January 2008 to August 2009, Mr Lidgren was vice president of business development under the private banking division of Credit Suisse, where he managed his own client portfolio and acted as a broker for sourcing of new business and pre-screened business proposals. From 2002 to 2007, he joined his family business in private investments first as a business analyst in 2002, and subsequently a merger & acquisitions manager in 2003 and 2004. From 2005 to 2007, he assumed the position of senior investment manager in his family's business, and carried out portfolio management, liaison with partner banks and private equity transactions. Upon his graduation, Mr Lidgren also provided consultancy services to Global Responsibility, an organisation that seeks to promote responsible citizenship worldwide, where he helped companies communicate their efforts in environmental, health and safety issues.

Mr Lidgren holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science, both in Business Administration and Economics, from Lund University, Sweden.

Svein Kjellesvik, Chief Operating Officer

Mr Svein Kjellesvik is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Chairman of the Group's subsidiary, Lime Petroleum AS. He is responsible for the Group's overall operations, including the integration of new business development plans into the Group's operations.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr Kjellesvik has been an independent entrepreneur and he has been involved in the start-up of Rex Middle East Ltd (formerly known as Rex Oil & Gas Ltd) and Lime Petroleum Plc. Before retiring from Schlumberger in 2002, Mr Kjellesvik has held leading positions in Schlumberger's seismic division and corporate headquarters. He has also been the President of their Global Marine Seismic Division. Mr Kjellesvik has played leading roles in key innovations in the seismic industry which includes multi-cable 3D seismic, 4 component seismic, and seismic 4D.

Mr Kjellesvik holds a Master degree in Applied Geophysics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim and is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the European Association of Petroleum Geoscientists and the American Association of Petroleum Geoscientists.

Per Lind, Chief Financial Officer

Mr Per Lind is the Chief Financial Officer overseeing the Group's finance, legal, administration and group structural matters. He also works with the CEO in business development. He has been a board member of Masirah Oil Ltd since 2015, Rex Technology Investments Pte Ltd since 2020, and Porto Novo Resources Ltd and Akrake Petroleum Holding Ltd since the companies' incorporation in 2023, all of which are subsidiaries of the Group. He is also a member of the Joint Management Committee of Block 50 Oman.

Prior to joining the Company, from 2009 to 2013, he was Vice President, Investments at Tangerine Time, a Singapore-based investment company investing in real estate and financial services in Singapore, India and the UK. Before being Senior Vice President of Finance in AEP Investment Management, a Singapore-based investment management company in 2008, Mr Lind spent five years as Director of Finance & Corporate Development with 1st Software Corporation Ltd, a software company listed on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange from 2003 to 2008. He had also worked for six years in the London and Singapore offices of Merchant Venture Investments, an international federation of private equity investors.

Mr Lind graduated with a degree in business administration and economics in 1996 from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the Gothenburg University in Sweden.

Lina Berntsen, Chief Technology Officer

Mrs Lina Berntsen is the Chief Technology Officer and co-ordinates the use of Rex Technologies for the Group. Mrs Berntsen re-joined the Group in 2012 as the Rex Virtual Drilling Specialist to Lime Petroleum Norway AS (now known as Lime Petroleum AS). Prior to this from 2011 to 2012, she provided consultancy services to the Group as a Technology Specialist at Equus Consulting AB, a business providing advanced mathematical analysis. From 2010 to 2011, Mrs Berntsen was the Rex Virtual Drilling Specialist for Rex Oil & Gas Ltd. and oversaw the operations and coordinated analyses in relation to the use of Rex Virtual Drilling.

Prior to this, Mrs Berntsen was Development Engineer in Gambro Lundia AB, a global medical technology company, where she was responsible for product development and design control relating to dialysis technology. She was previously the Marketing Coordinator in biotechnology company Chemel AB, where she also worked on product development.

Mrs Berntsen holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lund, Sweden.

Lai Siong Mok, Chief Communications Officer

Ms Mok Lai Siong is the Chief Communications Officer, and is responsible for the Group's strategic communications with shareholders, potential investors, analysts and the media, as well as for sustainability reporting, branding and marketing.

Ms Mok has over 25 years of experience in communications and investor relations in multinational listed firms. Prior to joining the Company, she was Group General Manager, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations for the then Singapore mainboard-listed conglomerate WBL Corporation from 2010 to 2013. From 2007 to 2010, Ms Mok worked in YTL Starhill REIT Management, the manager of Starhill Global REIT, where her last held position was Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications. She has also held positions in CapitaLand, Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation, Overseas Union Bank, Pidemco Land and the National University of Singapore.

Ms Mok holds a Master of Business (International Marketing) degree from the Curtin University of Technology, Australia, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.