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| | | Gary Guidry
Position: President & CEO
Mr. Guidry was most recently President and C.E.O. of Calpine Natural Gas (CNG) Trust, an energy trust listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, where during his tenure he led CNG through substantial growth and ultimately a successful merger with Viking Energy Royalty Trust on February 1, 2005. He has previously held executive positions including President of AEC International and senior management positions for CanOxy/Nexen, Benton Oil and Gas and Occidental Petroleum including projects in Nigeria, Yemen and Ecuador. A Petroleum Engineer by training, he is an Alberta-registered Professional Engineer.
Mr. Guidry brings with him an extensive background and proven track record in international petroleum development and project execution, operating in diverse environments ranging from deep-water West Africa and the Gulf of Mexico, South American rainforests to the deserts of the Middle East. Mr. Guidry is currently President and CEO of Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. and Pearl Exploration and Production Ltd. He has been a director of Tanganyika since May 5, 2005.
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| | | Ian Gibbs
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Gibbs brings to Tanganyika years of financial experience in the oil and gas sector. Born in Canada in 1968, Ian Gibbs is a Canadian Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of Calgary where he obtained a bachelor of commerce degree. He worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the areas of audit and taxation from 1991 to 1995. From 1996 until 1999, he worked in Nizhnevartovsk, Russia as the Chief of International Finance for a subsidiary of Canadian Fracmaster, a Canadian company providing services to the Russian oil and gas industry. From 2000 to 2004 Mr. Gibbs worked in Almaty, Kazakhstan as the Country Controller and Business Systems Manager for First International Oil Corporation, a private U.S. oil and gas exploration and production company. Mr. Gibbs was formerly Chief Financial Officer of Valkyries Petroleum Corp. prior to its takeover by Lundin Petroleum AB in 2006 and has been a director of Fortress Minerals Corp. since June 2005 and Chief Financial Officer of Canmex Minerals Corp. since October, 2006.
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