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spent over 27 years with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in various capacities including as Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of Shell South Africa, Vice President (Downstream) of Shell Philippines and most recently as Head of Strategy & Consulting (Downstream) at Shell International Petroleum Company in London.

Ian also sits on the board of Quadrise Canada Corp and is a member of the QFI Nominations Committee

is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years professional and commercial experience. Hemant was responsible for the AIM listing of Nautical Petroleum plc, operating as Finance Director from 2005-2008. Prior to this Hemant served as CFO of Premier Telesports Group in Eastern Europe and the FSU where he played a key role in two private placings and the group listing on the Vienna Stock Exchange. Hemant also served for 8 years as the finance director of the Rostel Group, and before that he practiced and qualified in accounting with KMG Thomson McLintock (now KPMG).

Hemant is also on the board of QIL and is a member of the QFI Audit Committee.

spent over twelve years of his career developing emulsified fuel projects; initially as a process engineer for BP and subsequently for PDVSA, as Business Development Manager where he implemented numerous Orimulsion® projects globally. Prior to joining Quadrise in 2006 he spent two years as a Senior Oil Consultant for OpenLink. Jason has an honours degree in chemical engineering from Loughborough University and an Executive MBA from the Cass Business School in London.

Jason is a chartered Chemical Engineer, he is also on the board of QIL.

is a management consultant to multi-national organisations. He has 25 years’ experience in the energy industry with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group where he sat on the Board of Shell International Gas & Power, as Executive Director for business development in the Eastern Hemisphere. From 1994 to 1996, he was the Finance Director in Shell International Gas, and Principal Executive to the International Energy Agency's Coal Industry Advisory Board (CIAB). Prior roles include senior management positions in Shell's Coal and Chemical Divisions. During his last two years of service he was Group Chief Information Officer. Mr Mutch holds a BSc in Mathematics & Physics and an MSc in Astrophysics.

Laurie is also on the board of QIL and is a member of the QFI Audit, Remuneration and Nominations committees.

has degrees in Chemistry, Chemical Physics and Computer Science and is also a qualified accountant. He has extensive experience in the oil and energy sectors in senior roles spanning refining technology and plant management to global strategic planning and international mergers and acquisitions. He also has extensive experience of refinery management and joint ventures. His last post in BP was as Chairman of the BP Texaco Joint Venture Refinery in Rotterdam. On leaving BP in 1995, Ian set up a specialist oil trading and refining training activity in association with the Petroleum Economist and in 1998 joined Quadrise Limited serving as a director until it was acquired by QFI in 2006.

Ian is a member of the QFI Audit, Remuneration and Nominations committees.

brings with him over 25 years of commercial experience in trading, finance, manufacturing and distribution. Dilip has most recently been involved in trading and manufacturing in West Africa with focus on Nigeria, DRC and Ghana. He is a Director and/or a founder member of various companies in West Africa involved in the distribution of fertilizers, chemicals, tobacco related products and the manufacture of food products.

In addition he is on the board of a number of private companies.