Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Jonathon Stewart
Chairman

Jon Stewart is a Chartered Accountant. After leaving the accounting profession he held a number of executive management positions in listed and unlisted companies in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Russia and Azerbaijan. Those companies had operations in Australia, Europe, North America, Asia and the Former Soviet Union. In that time he was involved in taking a number of companies public on the Stock Exchanges of Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada. He has considerable experience in the structuring and financing of transactions and the broader strategic development of companies. Mr Stewart became a director of Gawler on 1 March 2007. Mr Stewart is also the Executive Chairman of Aurora, a position he has held since February 2005. Mr Stewart has been responsible for, and overseen, the development of Gawler’s and Aurora’s US oil and gas portfolio.

Andrew Ross
Managing Director

Mr. Ross was appointed Managing Director of Elixir Petroleum in November 2007 following the merger by Schemes of Arrangement of Elixir and ASX listed, Gawler Resources Limited. Prior to this Mr Ross was Managing Director and co-founder of the Cape Energy Group (“Cape”). Under his leadership, Cape’s focus was on the acquisition and development of discovered reserve opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. Cape is 100% interest holder and operator of the Golden Beach gas field offshore of the Gippsland coast in Victoria, Australia and was joint operator of the Galoc oil field development located offshore Palawan Island in the Philippines. Prior to his role with Cape, Andrew was a Director - Corporate Finance of a private merchant banking group based in London. He also worked as in-house counsel at AIM listed oil and gas company, Sibir Energy Plc.

Iain Knott
Executive Director - Exploration

Mr Knott is a Petroleum Geologist who has over 20 years North Sea and international oil & gas experience. After graduating from Kingston University in 1983, Iain was employed in a number of geological roles by Core-Lab, Paleoservices and British Gas.

Since 1996 Iain has held senior roles in the oil and gas and investment banking industries, firstly as an Assistant Director with NatWest Markets – Wood Mackenzie, then as Technical Director responsible for Northwest Europe for Burlington Resources and most recently as Technical Director of Ingen. Ingen is an Aberdeen-based independent energy consultancy which successfully participated in the 21st and 22nd UKCS Licensing Rounds.

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

John Robertson
Non-Executive Director

Dr Robertson was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman coincident with the Company’s AIM admission in May 2005. He has a wealth of experience in the finance and oil and gas industries. Dr Robertson joined the corporate banking department of Schroders in 1970 and then worked in corporate finance at Cannon Street Investments. Subsequently, he accrued over 13 years experience in senior management positions with Ultramar, a leading UK independent oil company until the early 1990’s. Following this role he acted as a consultant before becoming a Director of Corporate Finance at Durlacher Ltd. From 1995 to June 2005 Dr Robertson was a Director of Nabarro Wells, the London-based independent corporate finance advisory firm, where he provided capital raising and corporate advice to private and quoted companies, particularly in the oil and gas and mining sectors.