Board of Directors

An Experienced Team of Executives and Non-Executives

John Lander Chairman (68)

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 (49)

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 (68)

Cameron was awarded a PhD in applied geochemistry by Imperial College in 1971 and then had a successful 35 year career in the international petroleum and mineral exploration industries.  This culminated in the discovery of a 70 million barrel oilfield in Tunisia.  He then established an offshore oil and gas exploration company and sold it before founding Alkane in 1994.  He served as Executive Chairman, CEO and Business Development Director until he moved to a non-executive role in 2009.  He is a non-executive director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of Ascent Resources plc, another AIM Listed company.  Cameron also acts as an independent advisor on renewable technologies and is vice-Chairman of the UNECE's Geneva based Bureau of
Experts on coal mine methane emissions.  He has chaired and presented papers to
many international energy conferences.

(Member of Audit and Nomination Committees)

Stephen Goalby Finance Director (63)

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 (51)

Julia is a corporate financier with more than 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 (63)

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, Nordaq Energy plc and Carillion JM Ltd.

(Member of Audit and Remuneration Committees)