Alkane

John Lander Chairman

John is a highly experienced oil company executive with a proven track record in adding significant value for shareholders through successful UK and International oil and gas exploration, production and new business development. He started his career with Shell and has more than 40 years' experience in the international oil and gas industry, having held boardroom posts at RTZ Oil and Gas, Pict Petroleum plc, Premier Oil plc, British-Borneo Petroleum Syndicate plc and Tuskar Resources plc. From 2000 to 2004 he was a director of Tullow Oil plc and Managing Director of Tullow Oil UK Limited.

He currently holds non-executive positions with Neon Energy, Ophir Energy and Canadian North Sea Energy.

(Member of Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees)

Neil O’Brien Chief Executive Officer

Neil is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years' management experience within the UK and Europe. After qualifying at Coopers Lybrand, Neil joined Blue Circle Industries PLC where he held a number of senior financial roles including a period as Finance Director of Blue Circle’s French based Heating Products operations. More recently Neil was Finance Director at Speedy Hire PLC the UK’s largest rental company and a FTSE250 member. During Neil’s ten years at Speedy Hire the group was transformed from a generalist building group to focus on the Speedy brand which grew revenues to over £450m in 2008. Neil joined Alkane Energy as Chief Executive Officer in November 2008.

Cameron Davies Non-Executive Director

Cameron is a former Executive Chairman, CEO and Business Development Director of Alkane and is now a non-executive director. Before founding Alkane in the 1990’s to use methane emissions from disused coal mines (CMM) for power generation, he had a successful career as a geologist and manager in the natural resources sector with Anglo-American, Premier Oil and KUFPEC (Tunisia), where he managed the team that discovered the Sidi el Kilani oilfield. Cameron is a vice-Chairman of the UNECE’s Geneva based Bureau of Experts on CMM emissions. He is also a non-executive director of Ascent Resources plc, an AIM listed exploration and petroleum company, and an independent advisor in the clean technology sector.

(Member of Audit and Nomination Committees)

Stephen Goalby Finance Director

Stephen has more than 30 years of financial and management experience in the electricity industry. From 1991 to 1997 he was financial controller of East Midlands Electricity plc’s generation business and was involved in establishing that business and in its subsequent sale. He was a director of several subsidiaries of East Midlands Electricity plc, including its renewable energy companies. He then became general manager of Corby Power Limited, which operates a 350MW gas-fired power station, and later a consultant to the US utility company Dominion Resources Inc. and to Alkane, before joining Alkane in February 1999. He was appointed Finance Director in May 2000, and took on the duties of Company Secretary in December 2003.

Julia Henderson Non-Executive Director

Julia is a corporate financier with twenty five years’ experience of advising entrepreneurial growth companies in a wide range of sectors. Her corporate finance career began at ANZ Merchant Bank after which she became a co-founder of Beeson Gregory (now Evolution Securities). Julia is now an independent consultant and non-executive director with private and quoted mid market companies. She is non-executive Chairman of GTL Resources plc and non-executive director of ECO Animal Healthcare plc.

(Member of Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees)

Joe Darby Non-Executive Director

Joe has a proven track record in the energy sector. He spent eight years with Shell Petroleum before becoming Chief Executive of Thomson North Sea Ltd. He then performed a number of senior roles with LASMO plc and was Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to 2001. Joe is currently a non-executive director at Premier Oil plc and Nordaq Energy plc. He was previously non-executive chairman of Mowlem plc and Faroe Petroleum plc and has also previously held non-executive roles at BNFL plc, Centurion Energy Inc, Sellafield Ltd and Carillion JM Ltd.

(Member of Audit and Remuneration Committees)