GETECH

Stuart Paton (aged 43), Non-Executive Chairman

Stuart was previously Technical Director then Chief Executive of Dana Petroleum plc. He has a BA in Earth Sciences followed by a PhD in Geology from Cambridge University. He then held a range of technical and commercial roles in Shell before moving to Dana Petroleum in 2003.

Peter Stephens (aged 56), Non-Executive Director

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 67), 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 47), Technical 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 56), 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 68), 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 57), 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.

Alison Fielding (aged 47), Non-Executive Director

Alison holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, a PhD in organic chemistry and a first class degree in chemistry from the University of Glasgow. Early in her career she spent five years at McKinsey & Co and more recently, while at IP Group, has sat on the board of and advised several early stage and quoted technology companies.

Alison is currently a director of Techtran Group Limited, Techtran Investments Limited, Techtran Services Limited, Techtran Limited, IP Group plc, Care International UK, Perachem Limited, Green Chemicals plc, IP Industry Partners Limited, Crysalin Limited, The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, Top Technology Ventures Limited, Amaethon Trustees Limited, Fusion IP plc, Coe Group plc, Amaethon Limited, IP2IPO Limited, IP2IPO Services Limited and IP Venture Fund (GP) Limited. Alison Fielding was also previously a director of Pure Polymers Limited that was dissolved on 21 April 2010 having never traded.