Joining Oilex in June 2016, Mr Bolton has worked as Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for a number of international resource companies since 2003.  Prior to that he worked with Ernst & Young as an Executive Director in Corporate Finance. In addition to his strengths in the commercial management and financing of resource projects internationally, Mr Bolton has extensive experience in capital and equity markets in a number of jurisdictions including TSX, ASX and AIM. 

In April 2020 Mr Bolton was appointed as an Executive Director of the Company. 

Mr Salomon has a Bachelor degree in Applied Science and is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, South East Asian Petroleum Exploration Society and has over 32 years’ experience working for upstream energy companies. Mr Salomon has worked for a number of oil & gas companies in various senior positions including General Manager Exploration and New Ventures at Murphy Oil Corporation and Global Head of Geoscience at RISC PL, in addition to a number of executive director roles including Strategic Energy Resources, Norwest Energy and Nido Petroleum. At several times in his career, Mr Salomon has acted as an independent consultant for various oil & gas companies, including New Standard Energy and Pacrim Energy. Joe first worked on Indian projects in 1994 while at Ampolex and since that time has maintained connection with the Indian industry, at various times bidding in India’s exploration and field development rounds and working with Indian companies as joint venture partners, both in India and internationally.

Mr Salomon was appointed as a Director in November 2015 and become Managing Director in March 2016.

In April 2020 Mr Salomon was appointed as Interim Chairman of the Company. 

Mr Schwarz is an AAPG certified petroleum geologist and business development professional with over 35 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, focussed primarily on projects in the UK and Europe.  He is a former Director of BG Exploration and Production Ltd and CEO of independent exploration company Virgo Energy Ltd.  He joined Encore Oil Plc following its takeover of Virgo Energy Ltd before its successful sale to Premier Oil Ltd.  Mr Schwarz also served as a Director on the Board of Eclipse Energy Ltd relating to a planned gas to power development and wind-farm project in the East Irish Sea.  Previously, Peter held various senior management roles with Amerada Hess Ltd, BG Plc, and Marubeni Oil & Gas UK Ltd and is currently a director of Finite Energy Limited, an oil and gas consultancy business he founded over 10 years ago, specialising in strategy and business development advice in the UK and Europe.  Mr Schwarz has held a number of industry roles including Director of the UK Oil & Gas Independent's Association, Member of the Advisory Council for the Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology at Reading University and Chairman of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.
 
Mr Schwarz was appointed as a director in September 2019.