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RNS Number : 8008U  Global Petroleum Ltd  27 November 2023

 27 November 2023

 

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Global Petroleum Limited

("Global" or "the Company")

 

Appointment of New Executive Chairman and Board Changes

 

Global Petroleum Limited (LSE AIM: GBP) ("Global" or "the Company"), an oil
and gas upstream exploration company presently focused on Africa and the
Mediterranean, is pleased to announce the appointment of new Executive
Chairman Daniel Page to the board with immediate effect. Also appointed to the
board with immediate effect are Cecilia Yu as Executive Director and Azib Khan
as a non-Executive Director. Mr Andrew Draffin will continue as a
non-Executive Director and Company Secretary.

 

These appointments are further to the Company's announcement of 6 November
2023 regarding the proposal received from Mr Omar Ahmad, a 5.04% shareholder
in the Company. Global now confirms that final agreement has been reached
regarding changes to the Board of the Company.

 

Following this agreement, it is also noted that Mr Peter Hill, Mr John van der
Welle and Mr Garrick Higgins have resigned from the Company's Board with
immediate effect. The outgoing Directors, in order to assist the incoming
Board with the conservation of funds, have agreed to waive all outstanding
past and present remuneration and fees, including those relating to
contractual notice periods.

 

Daniel Page, incoming Executive Chairman of Global Petroleum commented:

 

"I am honoured to be appointed the Executive Chairman of Global Petroleum and
am excited to begin unlocking the large potential I believe the Company has.
The new Directors and I have broad experience within the sector, across
financial markets and asset management and we believe that we will be able add
significant value for the shareholders.

 

The primary focus of the new leadership team will be to assess the present
assets of the Company with the view to maximise shareholder value and finding
suitable other opportunities in this sector using our extensive network to
significantly drive the Company valuation.

 

The team will also ensure financial prudence is at the forefront of any
strategy devised and a focus on shareholder engagement is paramount.

I would like to thank the outgoing Directors for their work at Global
Petroleum and allowing for a smooth transition and wish them all best on their
future endeavours."

 

 

Daniel Page - Executive Chairman

Dan has more than 23 years of experience across the financial services sector.
He spent the first third of his career in Investment Banking with Deutsche
Bank and Goldman Sachs where he focussed predominantly on the Credit
Derivative markets.

His move into the buy side saw him spend 7 years with the Bedrock Group in a
variety of roles as a GP and LP before co-founding the firm's technology led
platform business, BRT.

Dan then went on to build an Enterprise Risk Management consultancy which was
assumed by KPMG where he led the Asset Management Advisory Practice across
EMEA for a further 9 years. As a practice under Dan's tenure AMA was at the
forefront of advisory forward value creation.

Today Dan continues to leverage that experience to help firms build elite
commercial organisations and achieve superior results for investors.

 

Ceclila Yu - Executive Director

Cecilia has 15 years of experience across the financial service industry. She
began her career as a structured credit trader at Citigroup and JP Morgan,
before moving on to help building out what became one of the leading
structured credit hedge funds, Serone Capital.

During her decade in trading and investing, her primary focus was in
structured credit solutions credit synthetics, and macro credit. Since then,
she built out and headed the capital markets function at Prytek, a
multi-billion-dollar private equity holding company, where she executed and
syndicated multiple cross-border buyout transactions in the fintech space.

She has advised multiple fintech ventures both in the trad-fi and blockchain
space, and currently is Head of Markets at Deep Knowledge Group, a longevity,
deeptech, fintech consortium.

 

Azib Khan - Non-Executive Director

Azib has covered the banking sector since 2006, most recently as the lead
banking analyst at Morgans Financial for six years prior to joining E&P
Financial Group Limited. Prior to Morgans, Azib covered the Australian banks
and diversified financials primarily at BBY and Wilson HTM.

Azib began his career as an Actuarial Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers,
consulting to banks and general insurers.

Azib is an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (AIAA) and has
a Bachelor of Commerce - Actuarial Studies from Macquarie University. He is
resident in Australia.

 

 

For further information please visit: www.globalpetroleum.com.au or contact:

 

 Global Petroleum Limited                                      +44 (0) 20 3 875 9255
 Andrew Draffin, Company Secretary and non-Executive Director

 Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Nominated Adviser                +44 (0) 20 7886 2500

 & Joint Broker)
 John Prior / Freddie Twist

 Corporate Broking: Hugh Rich

 CMC Markets (Joint Broker)                                    +44 (0) 20 7170 8200

 Tom Curran/Thomas Smith

 Tavistock (Financial PR & IR)                                 +44 (0) 20 7920 3150

 Simon Hudson / Nick Elwes

 

 

The following information is disclosed in accordance with Rule 17 and
paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies in connection with
the appointments to the Board of the Company:

 

Daniel Christopher Page (Age 41)

                                       Past directorships/ partnerships (held within the last five years)

 Current directorships/ partnerships
 Swiss Brand Partners (UK Limited)     Recycled Commodities Limited
 Cornerman Limited                     Apex Advisory and Capital Raising Ltd

 

Azib Ahmed Khan (Age 40)

                                       Past directorships/ partnerships (held within the last five years)

 Current directorships/ partnerships
 -                                     -

 

Zhizhu (known as Cecila) Yu (Age 39)

                                       Past directorships/ partnerships (held within the last five years)

 Current directorships/ partnerships
 Westlake Consulting Ltd               Serone Capital Management LLP
 Westlake Global Holdings Ltd

 

 

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