People: Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd (GKP.L)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Todd Kozel

 2007 Executive Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

Mehdi Varzi

 2011 Non-Executive Independent Vice Chairman of the Board

Kristian Ainsworth

 2008 Finance Director, Executive Director

John Gerstenlauer

 2008 Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director

Christopher Garrett

 2011 Vice President - Operations, Managing Director, UK

Ali Al-Qabandi

 Business Development Director, Executive Director

Mohamed Messaoudi

 2007 Country Manager, Algeria

Tony Peart

 2009 Legal and Commercial Director

Adnan Samarrai

 2006 Country Manager, Kurdistan

Theresa Grant

 Secretary

Mark Hanson

 2011 Non-Executive Director

Charles Guthrie

 2011 Non-Executive Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Todd Kozel

 Mr. Todd Francis Kozel is Executive Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. Todd is a co-founder of Gulf Keystone Petroleum. He also founded Texas Keystone Inc., an independent oil and gas exploration, development - and production company, headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA where he has served as - a director since its founding - in 1988. He served as Texas Keystone’s President from 1995 to 2004. Todd also co-founded Falcon Drilling Company LLC, an American independent drilling and oilfield services company, in 2001 and serves on its Board of Directors.

Mehdi Varzi

 Mr. Mehdi Varzi is Non-Executive Independent Vice Chairman of the Board of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. Mehdi is President of Varzi Energy, an independent global energy consultancy which he set up in June 2001 following his retirement from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as Managing Director of Global Energy Research. Varzi Energy has advised a number of international financial institutions on global oil and gas developments. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Mehdi began his career with the National Iranian Oil Company before joining the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mehdi was appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director in January 2008.

Kristian Ainsworth

 Mr. Kristian Ewen Ainsworth is Finance Director, Executive Director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. since January 2008. Ewen is a qualified accountant with over 20 years’ experience in finance roles within the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining Gulf Keystone, he was Finance Director of London AIM-listed Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc. Ewen has held increasingly senior finance positions within companies such as Conoco (U.K.) Ltd, Murco Petroleum Ltd, Texaco Ltd and CIECO Exploration & Production (UK) Ltd. He brings transaction and funding experience to the Board as well as experience - of managing public - company finances.

John Gerstenlauer

 Mr. John Berndt Gerstenlauer is Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. Prior to joining Gulf Keystone, John was Managing Director for BASF’s Wintershall Nederland Group, The Hague. He has over 33 years’ experience within the oil and gas sector and he began his career with Shell as a Petrophysical Engineer in 1979. He assumed increasingly senior production and drilling engineering roles within Shell until he was seconded to Canadian Occidental Yemen as Operations Manager in 1993. Here, John managed the project from start-up to full production of 210,000 bopd before leaving to join UMC.

Christopher Garrett

 Mr. Christopher H. Garrett is Vice President - Operations, Managing Director, UK of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. Chris is a certified Geologist with the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and - a Fellow of the Geological Society. In his 35 years in the petroleum industry, he has spent 12 years overseas working in the USA and the Middle East. He brings oil field experience to Gulf Keystone, gained initially with Core Laboratories and Western Geophysical and latterly with Baker Hughes and Randall & Dewey where he assumed a number of roles ranging from international exploration and operations management through to property and prospect evaluation. Chris joined the Company in 2004 as Managing Director of the UK entity and Operations Manager for Algeria. He currently leads all exploration and drilling operations in Kurdistan, Iraq.

Ali Al-Qabandi

 Mr. Ali A. Al-Qabandi is Business Development Director, Executive Director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. Alongside Todd, Ali is a co-founder of Gulf Keystone Petroleum. He has held numerous executive positions and committee chairmanships at Kuwait Oil Company (“KOC”), which he joined in 1979. Most recently, Mr Al Qabandi served as the Executive Assistant Managing Director of Planning and Finance for the KOC and a director of the Kuwait National Petroleum Company. He has been a board member of Kuwait Gulf Oil Company - and of United Oil Projects, - as well as serving on several Steering Committees. Ali is a co-founder of the Company and was appointed to the Board in July 2007.

Mohamed Messaoudi

 Mr. Mohamed Messaoudi is Country Manager, Algeria of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. since 2007. Mohamed is a petroleum geologist with over 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry in Algeria. He joined Sonatrach, the Algerian National Oil Enterprise in 1979, becoming Chief Geologist for the Hassi Messaoud Basin in 1996 and then the Regional Exploration Manager of the North Algeria Area/Onshore and Offshore Basins. Prior to his retirement from Sonatrach, he held the position of Regional Exploration Manager for the South East Algeria Region, Algeria’s most important hydrocarbon area containing the Hassi Messaoud, Berkine, Illizi and Oued Mya basins.

Tony Peart

 Mr. Tony Peart is Legal and Commercial Director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. since 2009. Tony has over 32 years’ legal, commercial and management experience in the oil and gas industry. From 2006 to 2008 he was Legal and Commercial Director of African Arabian Petroleum Limited and from 2000 to 2005 he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Petrokazakhstan Inc. which was acquired by the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation. He was previously Managing Director of Bula Resources plc and MMS Petroleum plc. He is an Attorney and holds a Master’s degree in General Management from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. Tony joined the Company in 2008.

Adnan Samarrai

 Mr. Adnan A. Samarrai is Country Manager, Kurdistan of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited. Adnan has been an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists since 1972. He has over 45 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in Iraq including wide experience in petroleum geology and drilling technology. He joined the Iraq Petroleum Co. in the early 1960s before joining the Iraq National Oil Company (“INOC”) in 1972 where he held the position of Chief Exploration Geologist until his retirement in 1998. Since his retirement from INOC, Adnan has worked as Consulting Geologist to both BG International and Exploration Consultant Ltd before joining Gulf Keystone. Adnan joined the Company firstly as a consultant in July 2006 and subsequently became the Country Manager for Kurdistan, Iraq.

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Mark Hanson

 Mr. Mark Anthony Crump Hanson is Non-Executive Director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd., since November 2011. Mark is a qualified barrister and solicitor and was CEO of Global Banking Corporation in Bahrain from 2006 to 2008. He has served as Chief Executive of Bain Securities Limited, MD of Peregrine Capital Limited, Deputy CEO at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and COO of Crosby Financial Holdings. His previous experience includes the listing in Hong Kong and New York of Shanghai Petrochemical Company, the first mainland upstream Chinese oil company to list outside of the People’s Republic of China.

Charles Guthrie

 General The Lord Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie of Craigiebank, is Non-Executive Independent Director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd., since 3 October, 2011. He served in the British Army from 1957 to 2001. From 1997 to 2001 he was Chief of the Defence Staff and the Principal Military Adviser to two Prime Ministers and three Secretaries of State for Defence. He was Director of NM Rothschild & Sons Limited from 2001 to 2011 and is currently a Director of Sciens Capital (US), Colt Defense (US), Petropavlosk plc. He is a Council Member of The International Institute of Strategic Studies; a Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of King's College London University and Chairman of the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. He is President of The Army Benevolent Fund; Action Research; Federation of London Youth Clubs and a Governor of The Charterhouse, Clerkenwell. He is a Board Member of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He was, for ten years, Colonel Commandant of the Intelligence Corps and is currently Colonel of The Life Guards, Gold Stick to The Queen and was Colonel Commandant of the SAS from 2001 to 2010. His Current and Past Directorships are Advanced Interactive Systems Inc, Aon Ltd, Colt Defense LLC, Ashley Gardens Block 2 Ltd, Hospitaller Limited, British Forces Foundation, Imperial War Museum Foundation, Favermead Limited, International Institute for Strategic Studies, N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Region Holdings, Petropavlovsk plc, Wellington Museum Trust, Rivada Networks Sciens Capital, The Basmom Foundation, The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, The Household Cavalry Museum Trust Limited.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total

Todd Kozel

 22,230,800

Mehdi Varzi

 1,574,290

Kristian Ainsworth

 4,603,620

John Gerstenlauer

 5,044,130

Christopher Garrett

 --

Ali Al-Qabandi

 1,628,450

Mohamed Messaoudi

 --

Tony Peart

 --

Adnan Samarrai

 --

Theresa Grant

 --

Mark Hanson

 --

Charles Guthrie

 --
As Of 30 Dec 2011

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