Mr Terence Maxwell Barr
Managing Director

Mr Barr was appointed Managing Directors of the Company on 25 January 2005.  Mr Barr is a petroleum geologist with over 30 year's experience, including 11 years with Santos.  In recent years, Mr Barr has specialised in tight gas exploration, drilling and completion and is considered an expert in this field. Prior to joining Samson, Mr Barr was employed as Managing Director by Ausam Resources from 1999 to 2003 and as was the owner of Barco Exploration from 2003 to 2005.

Mr Neil Thacker MacLachlan
Chairman

Mr MacLachlan was appointed a director of the Company on 18 June 1998. Mr MacLachlan has over 27 years' investment banking experience in Europe, South East Asia and Australia. Mr MacLachlan was a former director of Wardley Holdings Ltd and Wardley Australia Ltd from 1979 to 1986 and James Capel & Co. Limited from 1986 to 1990.  All three companies were investment banking subsidiaries of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC Holdings Ltd).   

Mr MacLachlan was deputy managing director of Svenska Handelsbanken's UK investment banking division from 1990 until 1993 and from 1993 until 1997, was employed by Barrick Gold Corporation as Executive Vice President, Asia.  Mr MacLachlan was also a non executive director of Golden Prospect Plc from 1997 to 2004.  Currently Mr MacLachlan is an Executive Director of Ambrian Partners Limited, a UK based investment bank specialising in the natural resources sector and which is a member of the London Stock Exchange. 

Dr Victor Rudenno
Non Executive Director

Dr. Victor Rudenno, Non Executive Director. Dr. Rudenno was appointed as a director of the Company in April 2007. In 1984, Dr. Rudenno transitioned to the investment industry as a mining analyst working for firms such as James Capel, DBSM and Prudential Bache. In 1995, he moved to the corporate side of investment banking and worked for a number of leading firms including Macintosh Corporate, Deutsche Bank, Hartley Poynton and CIBC.

In 2002, Dr. Rudenno co-founded Equity Capital Markets Ltd, an investment bank specializing in corporate advice and capital raising which merged with Interfinancial in 2005 and subsequently was acquired by Tolhurst an ASX listed broker in 2007.  He is currently an Executive Director of Revaluate Pty Limited. He is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Dr. Rudenno holds a Bachelor of Mining Engineering degree, a Master of Commerce degree and a Doctor of Philosophy for his thesis on Mining Economics. During his academic career, Dr. Rudenno lectured both at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney, predominantly on mining economics, geostatistics, operations research and thermodynamics. He is the author of the textbook “Mining Valuation Handbook”. 

Mr Keith Skipper
Keith Skipper has been a non-executive director of Samson Oil and Gas Limited since September 2008. He is a seasoned global oil and gas executive, exploration geologist and independent oil and gas producer. Following completion of his graduate work at McMaster University where he specialised in sedimentology, his early career was developed at AMOCO (both in North American and International subsidiaries).  He initially came to Australia in 1982 with Bridge Oil Limited and was a major contributor to Bridge's growth, expanded portfolio and development through to the early 1990's. Keith returned to Calgary in 1992 as a Vice President for PanCanadian International to help in the building of an international portfolio for PanCanadian (now part of EnCana). Since 1998, he has been involved in assisting private and public companies grow and prosper. He makes no secret of the fact he is a "peak oil" practitioner!

Mr Denis Ivan Rakich F.C.P.A
Company Secretary

Mr Rakich was appointed Company Secretary on 18 June 1998.  Mr Rakich is an accountant and Company secretary with extensive corporate experience within the petroleum services, petroleum and mineral production and exploration industries.  Mr Rakich is responsible for the legal, financial and corporate management of Samson Oil & Gas Limited.  He is a member of the Australian Society of Accountants and is currently Company Secretary for another public Company in the resources sector.

Ms Robyn Lamont
Chief Financial Officer

Ms Lamont has served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer since 1 May 2006, prior to which she served as Financial Controller since 2001.  Ms Lamont graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Finance.  Ms Lamont worked for Arthur Andersen in Perth, Western Australia for three years and qualified as a Chartered Accountant through the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia in 2001.