Richard Healey (aged 61) - Non Executive Chairman
Richard Healey, has a broad range of commercial experience, having run a number of international subsidiaries of engineering companies Alcatel SA, Crouzet SA, Morgan Crucible plc and Bowthorpe Holdings plc for more than twenty years. All of these companies had significant engineering operations throughout the world. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has worked in the UK, the USA, Europe, Australia, India and Singapore. He is currently a director of Equatorial Energy PLC, Kew Partners Ltd, Churcham Ltd and Executive Chairman of Nusantara Energy PLC.
Simon Escott (aged 63) – Chief Executive Officer
Simon has over 30 years of management experience in the oil and gas and petrochemical industries. He is a qualified Petroleum and Mechanical Engineer and has worked in a senior capacity for ESSO GmbH, BP Brazil, Phillips Petroleum Incorporated, Elf Aquitaine S.A., Pennzoil/Cities Services (Brazil), Norsk Hydro A/S, Saga Petroleum A/S, Zhetybay Quest Petroleum GmbH, Reliance Industries Limited and the Mannai Corporation WLL. He has run major construction projects for Brown & Root Incorporated in the North Sea and for ABB Lummus Crest Incorporated in India. In 1992, Simon was a Project Director for the Russian World Bank Oil Rehabilitation Loans 1 and 2, based in Moscow and Siberia. He co-founded Baltic in 2004.
Louis Castro (aged 53) – Non Executive Director
Louis Castro is a corporate finance professional with over 25 year’s experience. He is currently Head of Capital Markets at Northland Capital Partners, a London based investment bank. Previously he has been Head of Corporate Finance at Matrix Corporate Capital LLC and at Insinger de Beaufort, and has worked in the corporate finance departments at Williams de Broe, Price Waterhouse and SG Warburg. He has advised many small and mid-cap companies most recently in the oil & gas and mining sectors. Mr Castro is a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with Cooper & Lybrand, having initially worked as an engineer in industry.
