Manoj Narender Madnani, CEO, DSA Investments
The investor profile is not limited to PE, family offices, industrial groups and the large trading houses are all active. What is clear is that no one is willing to be a silent partner. The aspiration is to ensure that the portfolio companies implement international HSE and corporate governance standards and operate with a high degree of operational excellence and most importantly provide a return to their shareholders. Face time is very important in ensuring success.
Mike Doherty, Chairman, Impact Oil & Gas
Impact has established itself as a frontier company being able to identify, secure and explore very large potential prospects – often in deep water off the continental shelf. Because of the potential of the prospects in Impact’s portfolio it has been successful in attracting very large companies such as ExxonMobil, Total, Statoil and CNOOC as partners.
Jeremy Asher, Chairman & CEO, Tower Resources
Today, Tower Capital operates the Thali license offshore Cameroon, which already has two oil discovery wells and two large exploration blocks in Zambia near the border with Zimbabwe. Tower Capital remains active in Namibia and also partners with NewAge in the Algoa-Gamtoos offshore block, which NewAge operates in South Africa.
Chris Mclean, CEO, Stonechair Capital
Stonechair Capital Corp was created in 2009 as a private equity venture capital firm that continued the pursuit of my passions in the investment banking market and Africa energy. The firm has been involved in projects in Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Seychelles, Liberia, Mozambique and Nigeria.
Michael Binnion, President & Founder, Questerre Energy Corporation
I hope we can focus on what industry needs to start doing, keep doing and stop doing to gain back the ground lost to hydrocarbons opponents.