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Pong Chen Yih, Independent Non-Executive Chairman

Mr Pong, 48, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 August 2023 and re-elected to the Board on 25 April 2024. He was redesignated as Lead Independent Director on 25 April 2024. Mr Pong has over 20 years of experience handling complex legal and financial advisory work in relation to domestic and international corporate finance and capital markets transactions. He is also an independent board member of Moroxite Holding Pte. Ltd., and Rex Technology Investments Pte. Ltd.; subsidiaries of the Group.

He has successfully listed over 45 companies on the Singapore Exchange. He is a Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Novus Corporate Finance Pte. Ltd., an accredited issue manager for the Singapore Exchange Mainboard listings and a Full Sponsor for Catalist. He is presently an independent director of HRnetGroup Limited, Figtree Holdings Limited and Grand Venture Technology Limited.

Mr Pong was previously the Head of the Singapore Domestic Capital Markets Group in Baker McKenzie and prior to that, a partner in the Equity Capital Markets Group in WongPartnership LLP. He regularly speaks at local and overseas conferences and seminars on topics such as capital raising and listing requirements.

Mr Pong holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.

Mae Heng, Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Mae Heng, 53, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 4 May 2022 and was re-elected to the Board on 28 April 2023.

Ms Heng has over 16 years of experience working at Ernst & Young Singapore. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Grand Venture Technology Limited, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited, HRnetGroup Limited and Ossia International Limited, and is chairperson or a member of these companies' various board committees. Ms Heng also holds directorships in her family-owned investment holding companies. She was also the former Audit Committee Chairman of an SGX-listed acquisition company, a real estate developer, an online travel company, as well as a Bursa-listed pharmaceutical company.

Ms Heng holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University. She is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and an ASEAN Chartered Professional Accountant.

Dr Mathias Lidgren, Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Dr Mathias Lidgren, 42, was appointed as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 4 May 2022 and was re-elected to the Board on 28 April 2023. He is also a board member of Moroxite Holding Pte. Ltd., and Moroxite T AB, both subsidiaries of the Group.

Dr Mathias Lidgren represents the interests of Limea Ltd., the controlling shareholder of the Company. He has been a practising medical doctor since 2013 and has worked for the National Health Service (NHS), United Kingdom, the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genéve, Geneva, Switzerland, and the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently practising at Skane University Hospitals in Lund, Sweden, and is also a post-doctoral researcher in the Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Department of Laboratory Medicine in Lund University, Sweden. Dr Lidgren currently holds directorships in Propatria AB, Rotationsplast i Munka-Ljung by AB, Caithness Fastighets AB, Forvaltningsaktiebolaget Maple, Trolleholms Slott AB, Captiosus AB and Strominnate Therapeutics AB; companies in Sweden involved in a range of businesses including real estate, manufacturing and medicine. He is also Chief Medical Officer of Moroxite T AB.

Dr Lidgren holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Economics from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, a Master of Arts in Genetics, as well as a medical degree (MB BChir) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from the International University of Monaco. His medical degree is recognised by the Commission des professions médicales, Switzerland and Socialstyrelsen, Sweden. He is licensed to practice medicine in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland and in Sweden. He is also a board-certified specialist in clinical genetics in Sweden.

Per Lind, Chief Executive Officer

Mr Per Lind is the Chief Financial Officer overseeing the Group's finance, legal, administration and group structural matters. He also works with the CEO in business development. He has been a board member of Masirah Oil Ltd since 2015, Rex Technology Investments Pte Ltd since 2020, and Porto Novo Resources Ltd and Akrake Petroleum Holding Ltd since the companies' incorporation in 2023, all of which are subsidiaries of the Group. He is also a member of the Joint Management Committee of Block 50 Oman.

Prior to joining the Company, from 2009 to 2013, he was Vice President, Investments at Tangerine Time, a Singapore-based investment company investing in real estate and financial services in Singapore, India and the UK. Before being Senior Vice President of Finance in AEP Investment Management, a Singapore-based investment management company in 2008, Mr Lind spent five years as Director of Finance & Corporate Development with 1st Software Corporation Ltd, a software company listed on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange from 2003 to 2008. He had also worked for six years in the London and Singapore offices of Merchant Venture Investments, an international federation of private equity investors.

Mr Lind graduated with a degree in business administration and economics in 1996 from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the Gothenburg University in Sweden.

Mike Hopkinson, Chief Operating Officer

Mr Mike Hopkinson is the Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the Group's overall operations, including the integration of new business development plans into the Group's operations. He is also General Manager of the Group's subsidiary, Masirah Oil Ltd, a role he has held since 2023.

Mr Hopkinson has more than 30 years of upstream experience in many different international locations. He is skilled at all engineering and operations aspects of the petroleum business, from exploration, through development and production. His experience includes onshore, offshore, as well as both shallow and deep-water developments. Project locations include UK North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Ukraine, Georgia, Ecuador and Guatemala. Prior to joining Masirah Oil Ltd, Mr Hopkinson was the Energy Transition Coordinator for Cox Oil in Dallas, Texas, USA. He started his career in 1985 as Operations Engineer with Marathon Oil Company in Aberdeen, Scotland. After transferring to the USA, Mr Hopkinson has also held various upstream oil & gas positions in Kosmos Energy Inc., Caelus Energy LLC, Energy Resource Technology (a Helix company) and Triton Energy Inc., all of which are based in Texas, USA, with international and domestic operations.

Mr Hopkinson holds a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College, UK, and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Engineering with Business Studies from the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Lai Siong Mok, Chief Communications Officer

Ms Mok Lai Siong is the Chief Communications Officer, and is responsible for the Group's strategic communications with shareholders, potential investors, analysts and the media, as well as for sustainability reporting, branding and marketing.

Ms Mok has over 25 years of experience in communications and investor relations in multinational listed firms. Prior to joining the Company, she was Group General Manager, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations for the then Singapore mainboard-listed conglomerate WBL Corporation from 2010 to 2013. From 2007 to 2010, Ms Mok worked in YTL Starhill REIT Management, the manager of Starhill Global REIT, where her last held position was Senior Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications. She has also held positions in CapitaLand, Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation, Overseas Union Bank, Pidemco Land and the National University of Singapore.

Ms Mok holds a Master of Business (International Marketing) degree from the Curtin University of Technology, Australia, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.