GETECH

Peter Stephens (aged 54), Non-Executive Chairman

Peter was previously Head of European Equities Sales at Salomon Brothers and Credit Lyonnais. Since 2001 he has been working as a venture capitalist. He has a M.A. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and qualified as a Barrister in 1978. He is a founding shareholder of Desire Petroleum plc and is a non-executive Director of Tristel plc, a company quoted on AIM.

Dr Derek Fairhead (aged 65), President

Derek is the founder of GETECH. Derek received a B.Sc. in Geology and Physics from Durham University, a M.Sc. in Geophysics from Newcastle University, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Newcastle University. He has been Manager and Managing Director of GETECH for over fourteen years, and is also the Professor of Applied Geophysics at Leeds University as well as having had over 100 papers published. Derek has an honorary Professorship at the Ocean University of Qingdao, China; was awarded the Bureau Gravimetrique International (BGI) medal “for outstanding works on the Earth’s gravity” in 1994; and received the Special Commendation Award by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists in 1999. Derek has numerous contacts in the oil and gas industry and Government Ministries/Survey Departments worldwide due to his involvement with the continental data compilation studies.

Dr Paul Markwick (aged 45), Geological Director

Paul has a B.A. in Geology from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences from The University of Chicago. He worked for two years at BP's Research Centre in Sunbury-on-Thames before moving to Chicago, where Paul studied with Professor Fred Zeigler's oil industry sponsored Paleogeographic Atlas Project, reconstructing the geographic and climatic evolution of the Earth over the last 120 million years. This was followed by a post-doctorate at the The University of Reading researching the exploration significance of the paleoclimatic an drainage evolution of southern Africa using computer-based climate models. He then moved to Robertson Research International Limited, now part of Fugro, as a Staff Petroleum Geologist, where he developed global predictive models of source and reservoir facies, moving to GETECH in 2004. In 2006 Paul took over management of GETECH's Petroleum Systems Evaluation Group. Paul is also a Research Fellow at the Universities of Leeds and Bristol.

Ian Somerton (aged 54), Marketing Director

Ian started his career as a Geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey, UK, and Antarctica in 1976. During 1980-82 he worked in the Applied Geophysics Research Unit at Birmingham University before moving to Robertson Research International Limited (currently renamed Fugro). Whilst with Robertson Research International Limited, Ian was responsible for many geophysical acquisition, processing and interpretation projects. These involved overseas fieldwork in countries including, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Portugal, Botswana, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Somalia, Libya and Yemen. Ian joined GETECH in 1994 and his current responsibilities include co-ordinating the marketing of all GETECH's products and services to oil, gas and mining companies.

Colin Glass (aged 66), Finance Director

Colin is a Chartered Accountant and a partner in Winburn Glass Norfolk Chartered Accountants. He is a founder Director of the AIM quoted Surgical Innovations Group plc which reversed into Haemocell plc in 1998. He is a non-executive Director of Coe Group plc taking the company from venture capital funding to AIM quotation through a reverse takeover. He is a non-executive Director of Straight plc which he assisted in floating on AIM in 2003. He also advised the GETECH management team in the negotiations on the spin-out from the University.

Raymond Wolfson (aged 55), Chief Executive Officer

Raymond has a B.A. in Physics from Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked for thirteen years in BNFL in various management consultancy and commercial roles and then moved to Ernst and Young and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Since 1991 he has been involved in the technology transfer company at the University of Leeds, as Finance Director and later Investment Director. He has created and been a director of various spin-out companies from the University, a significant number of which have raised funding and/or been sold. Most recently he has been responsible for managing the intellectual property created at the University of Leeds.

Dr David Roberts (aged 66), Non-Executive Director

David has a B.Sc. and a D.Sc. in geology and geophysics from Manchester University. He worked for the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences for 16 years before joining BP Exploration in 1981 as Head of the Basins Analysis group. He retired from BP in 2003 as Distinguished Exploration Advisor. David’s experience at BP has given him world wide exposure to exploration in a variety of sedimentary basins and petroleum systems both onshore and offshore. He is also a Visiting Professor and fellow of Royal Holloway, University of London, the University of Southampton and IFP school in Paris. David has published more than 100 papers on a variety of geoscience topics. He is the founder and editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology and is the recipient of numerous awards and also runs his own geoscience consultancy.

Charles Tavner (aged 34), Non-Executive Director

Charles has a MEng in Engineering from Downing College, Cambridge. He worked for 13 years for Cambridge Consultants Ltd, latterly as part of their management team. Since 2006 Charles has worked for IP Group plc identifying and commercialising intellectual property from UK universities from the physical sciences as well as managing the partnership with University of Southampton. Charles also sits on the board of Nanotecture plc, an energy technology company.