(Board member since July 2022) Carlos has been a member of our Board since July 2022. He has over 30 years of successful exploration, development and management experience in the oil and gas industry across several continents, at Tecpetrol, Repsol, YPF, Hocol, Benton Oil & Gas, Enron Oil & Gas International and Pecten International (Shell Oil). As Director of Exploration and Development for Tecpetrol, he led the subsurface team responsible for making Fortín de Piedra the largest gas producing block in Argentina, and the discovery and development of the Pendare Field in Colombia. As Worldwide Director of Geology, he also led the technical group behind Repsol’s exploration success in locations such as Libya, Algeria, Pre-Salt Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, Venezuela and Peru. He has published over 50 technical papers and has been a guest lecturer in numerous international forums. He is the founder of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences, has lectured several courses in the USA, Colombia, Spain and Argentina and is currently a professor for postgraduate students at Universidad Nacional de La Plata. At present he is an independent consultant on oil and gas exploration and production after founding and managing Andes Energy Consulting, and since 2024 an independent board member at Olympic Peru Inc. Carlos holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, and a master’s degree and a PhD in geology from Ohio State University. * Independent
