Mr. McBain has over 28 years’ experience in the oil industry, the first 16 of which were with Shell where he held numerous senior international positions, including assignments in Singapore, Dubai, China and Venezuela. He also worked in Shell's natural gas business with specific responsibility for the development of liquefied natural gas projects. He joined Vitol in 1995 to head up the growth of Arawak’s portfolio of upstream assets. Mr. McBain is a graduate of Oxford University and became CEO of Arawak in September 2002.

Mr. Blaydes assumed the role of Arawak’s Chief Financial Officer in April 2009. He is a Chartered Accountant having trained with Price Waterhouse in the UK (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) where he spent 12 years working in the Russian and UK practices. In 2000, Mr. Blaydes was appointed Managing Partner for Ernst & Young in Kazakhstan and subsequently spent four years with Ernst & Young in Beijing, China, working in the Energy and Transaction Support groups with extensive exposure to cross-border transactions including Ecuador, Canada, Kazakhstan and Russia. In 2008, Mr. Blaydes joined Arawak Energy to lead all finance functions in Kazakhstan.

Mr. Kapadia is a petroleum engineer with 28 years’ project management and operations experience in the international oil and gas industry. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Arawak in January 2005. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Kapadia held the position of Senior Vice President of Samson International Ltd. Mr. Kapadia holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration from Oklahoma City University.

Mr. Krapivin has 31 years’ experience working in the international oil and gas industry including postings in Yemen, the Ukraine and Turkmenistan. In 1999 he was appointed Deputy General Director of PNG and in 2006 he was appointed General Director. In February 2008 Mr. Krapivin was appointed Vice President, Russia of Arawak. Prior to this, Mr. Krapivin held the position of Technical Director of Samson Oil & Gas Development Limited in Russia from 1992. Mr. Krapivin graduated from Grozny Oil Institute in 1977 as a logging engineer.

Mr. Berlibayev joined Altius Petroleum in 2006 as Astana representative responsible for government relations and in December 2007 he was appointed Vice President, Kazakhstan Administration of Arawak. Prior to his appointment, from 1995 to 2005, Mr. Berlibayev held various positions within several ministries of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. These positions include Director General of the state enterprise, Reserve of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Automobile Roads and Construction of Infrastructure of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and Chairman of the administration of CJS Centre of Financial Liabilities Operations of the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Berlibayev graduated from Karagandinsky Polytechnic in 1992 as a mining engineer and in 1997 from the State Management Academy in Almaty.

Mrs Naumchik has over 16 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, having begun her career at Occidental Petroleum in the Komi Republic, Russia. She subsequently joined Arawak’s affiliated companies PNG and Gobustan Operating Company and was appointed Country Manager for Azerbaijan in September 2007. Mrs Naumchik graduated from the Technical University of Ukhta in Russia as a mechanical engineer.

Mr Simmons has over 18 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, having begun his career at Samson International, an Independent Oil & Gas company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There, he supervised the company’s financial operations in Russia, Venezuela and Brazil. Mr Simmons joined Arawak in January 2005 and was appointed Country Manager for Kazakhstan in May 2006. Mr Simmons graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.